[OS X TeX] bibtex question

[Maxwell, Adam R]

On 05/11/09 14:57, "Luis Vitorio Cargnini" <lvcargnini at gmail.com> wrote:

> the form \'{e} won't work too ?

That will only work with the alpha style if you enclose it in braces as I
wrote previously.  I noted the appropriate documentation; did you RTFM
before asking?  Here's an HTML version:

http://newton.ex.ac.uk/tex/pack/bibtex/btxdoc/node3.html



> 
> Le 09-05-10 à 11:27, Adam R. Maxwell a écrit :
> 
>> 
>> On May 10, 2009, at 5:53 AM, M. Tamer Özsu wrote:
>> 
>>> I have an interesting problem that I have not been able to resolve.
>>> I have the following entry in my .bib file that gives me an error
>>> when I run it with alpha style:
>>> 
>>> @article{alg:syn:952,
>>> Author = {Guillaume Br\`es},
>> 
>> This is incompatible with the alpha style.  You need to use {\`e} or
>> {\`{e}} for BibTeX to process accents correctly, according to btxdoc
>> (texdoc bibtex in Terminal).  Incidentally, {\`e} is the form
>> BibDesk uses, and it will convert to/from the Unicode form for you.