Problems with BibTeX import

[rickl]

I've been trying to import a reference from a website that kindly offers references in BibTeX format, but the only thing that gets imported is the BibTeX key. The BibTeX import feature usually works fine, so I suspect the format the site is using is wrong or unconventional. In particular, I see they use double braces around the title only. But hand-editing the BibTeX doesn't solve the problem. Does anyone have an idea what's going wrong? Here is the page:
http://iplab.nada.kth.se/iplab/jmltext.cgi/bibtex.jml

Thanks for any help,
Rick

[Jon]

Bookends expects the terminating comma for each field to be followed by a Return, not the other way around.

If you copy/paste this into Word, do a search/replace (reversing the order of these characters), and copy that back to the clipboard it imports fine.

Jon
Sonny Software

[rickl]

Thanks, Jon, that worked great. Should I contact the site authors to say they've made a mistake, or is this just a case of different flavours of BibTeX?

[Jon]

You can ask them -- I've never seen BibTeX like that. And FWIW, I tried to import that into BibDesk and was unable to...

Jon
Sonny Software

[jem]

I think it's OK, it's just another way of formatting the refs (bibtex isn't line oriented). Another way of reformat this is to use bibtool before importing it. (bibtool is a tool included with GW TeX distribution)