A couple of BibTeX problems

[rickl]

Hi everyone,

I'm experiencing a couple of weird things when formatting references in BibTeX format. Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong? Here's the generated BibTeX:

@Incollection{Cunningham1993,
author = {Cunningham, D and Duffy, TM and Knuth, R},
title = {Textbook of the future},
booktitle = {Hypertext: a psychological perspective},
editor = {McKnight, Cliff},
publisher = {Ellis Horwood},
year = {1993},
keywords = { hypertext; hyperbooks}}???
@Article{McKnight1993,
title = {Hypertext: a psychological perspective},
year = {1993},
location = {London},
keywords = { hypertext; psychology}}???

You'll notice that there are 3 question marks after each reference (this seems to happen with every reference). Also, the 2nd item is actually an edited book in Bookends but has been converted to "Article" during BibTeX export. Anyone more knowledgeable in BibTeX than I know what's going wrong?

Thanks,
Rick

[Jon]

Yes. I forgot to clean up the BibTeX format after converting it to Bookends 8. The Unicode char for ¬ (Option-L) wasn't converted properly. I believe I fixed this in 8.0.3 -- did you download that? (I just checked -- yes, it is fixed in 8.0.3 -- please download that. It fixes a number of bugs).

If not, please edit the format yourself, and replace the ??? with ¬. If you have any problems with this, please contact me directly.

Jon
Sonny Software

[rickl]

Thanks, Jon,

After upgrading the question marks duly disappeared.

What about the other issue I mentioned, i.e. Edited Books appearing as Articles? Is this an inherent limitation with BibTeX?

[Jon]

It's not a limitation of BibTeX, I just didn't create a Type for an Edited Book in the BibTeX format. I have done that now, giving it the same output as a Book Type. If you contact me, I will send it to you.

Or you can simply do this yourself -- edit the BibTeX format by adding a new Type -- Edited Book. The default information displayed will be the same as the Book Type. Close the format window and you're done.

Jon
Sonny Software

[rickl]

Thanks, Jon, I don't know why I never think of these things. I did what you suggested, replacing author with editor. Seems to have done the trick.