<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Instead of opening and closing quotes, you can also use {} around the replacement string. So,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">@string{Acta = {Acta Mathematica}} </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">should work.<br class=""><div class="">
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</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 9, 2021, at 3:31 PM, Nitecki, Zbigniew H. <<a href="mailto:Zbigniew.Nitecki@tufts.edu" class="">Zbigniew.Nitecki@tufts.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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Yes, I set the TeXShop editor to auto complete quotes, so hitting the (double) quote key gives me opening…closing. I’ve frogotten how to turn this off.
<div class="">I went through and changed the initial quotes by deleting then typing the double quotation sign and erasing the first part. Am I correct that I have now entered the</div>
<div class="">correct form of quotation mark? If not, how do I get it on my computer?</div>
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<div class="">Here is my full list of abbreviations, with all the quotes changed as indicated above. Is this right or should I do something else to that?</div>
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@string{Acta<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>=''Acta Mathematica''}</div>
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@string{AmJMath<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>=''American Journal of Mathematics''}</div>
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@string{AMMonth<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>=''American Mathematical Monthly''}</div>
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@string{AMS<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>=''American Mathematical Society''}</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">
@string{Annals<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>=''Annals of Mathematics''}</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">
@string{AnnENS<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>=''Annales scientifiques de l'{\'E}cole Normal Superiore''}</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">
@string{BAMS<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>=''Bulletin of the AMS''}</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">
@string{BSM<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>=''Bulletin des sciences math{\'e}matiques''}</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">
@string{CRAS<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>=''Comptes rendus habdomadires des s{\/e}ances de l'Acad{\'e}mie des Sciences, Paris''}</div>
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@string{Fundamenta=''Fundamenta Mathematicae''}</div>
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@string{JDMV<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>=''Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung''}</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">
@strintg{JMpa<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>=''Journal de Math{\'e}matiques Pures et Appliqu{\'e}es''}</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">
@string{JraM<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>=''Journal f{\"u}r die reine und angewandte Mathematik''}</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">
@string{MathAnn<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>=''Mathmatische Annalen''}</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">
@string{MathMag<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>=''Mathematics Magazine''}</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">
@string{MessMath<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>=''The Messenger of Mathematics''}</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">
@string{MonatsfM<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>=''Monatshefte f{\"u}r Mathematik''}</div>
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@string{PAMS<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>=''Proceedings of the AMS''}</div>
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@string{PCambPhil<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>=''Proceedings of the Cambridge Mathematical Society''}</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">
@string{PLMS<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>=''Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society''}</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">
@string{RendLincei<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>=''Rendconditi del Reale Accademia del Lincei''}</div>
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@string{RendPalermo=''Rendconditi del Circulo Matematico di Palermo''}</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">
@string{RevHistSci<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>=''Revue d'histoire des sciences''}</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">
@string{TAMS<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>=''Transactions of the AMS''}</div>
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@string{TCambPhil<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>=''Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society''}</div>
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<div class="">On Jul 9, 2021, at 15:04, Manfred Braun <<a href="mailto:manfred.braun@uni-due.de" class="">manfred.braun@uni-due.de</a>> wrote:</div>
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I think the reason is that you have written ”Acta Mathematica” with opening and closing quotation marks. It should be simply <span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 12px;" class="">"Acta Mathematica"</span><font face="Courier" class="">.
</font> Maybe your editor converts the quotation marks automatically to opening and closing, which are different.
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<div class="">On 09 Jul 2021, at 19:54, Nitecki, Zbigniew H. <<a href="mailto:Zbigniew.Nitecki@tufts.edu" class="">Zbigniew.Nitecki@tufts.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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I’m confused by the following phenomenon:
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<div class="">Following the LaTex Companion, \S 13.2.3 (pp 769ff), I tried to make my references to standard journals uniform by putting, at the beginning of my .bib file, a set of abbreviations in the following format (eg):</div>
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@string{Acta<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>=``Acta Mathematica''}</div>
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and then use the abbreviation in the following way (eg):</div>
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@article{Poincare:residues,</div>
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author={Henri Poincar\'e},</div>
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title={\foreignlanguage{french}{Sur les residusdes int\'egrales doubles}},</div>
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journal=Acta, </div>
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volume={9}, </div>
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year={1886/7}, </div>
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pages={321-380}</div>
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<div class="">I get an error messages in my console:</div>
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<div class="">This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2017)</div>
<div class="">The top-level auxiliary file: Coeur.aux</div>
<div class="">The style file: plain.bst</div>
<div class="">Database file #1: calculus.bib</div>
<div class="">Warning--string name "``acta" is undefined</div>
<div class="">--line 2 of file calculus.bib</div>
<div class="">Missing "}" in string command---line 2 of file calculus.bib</div>
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<div class="">I'm skipping whatever remains of this command</div>
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<div class="">and it seems to quit after a lot of these kinds of errors.</div>
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<div class="">What am I doing wrong? Has the format changed since the Latex Companion was written?</div>
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