The experts will I'm sure give you more help, but as a beginner I've run into some of the same issues. One thing I learned was that double quotes in fields have to be changed to two single quotes next to each other: ''quoted item'' instead of "quoted item".
Adam sent me this link, which was helpful: > > I recommend <http://noodle.med.yale.edu/latex/essential.pdf>, especially if > you're new to LaTeX or (as in your case) not using it. --Ingrid On 10/14/07 8:25 PM, "Maximilian Held" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear BibDesk experts, > > I just tried to migrate from EndNote to BibDesk, but unfortunately got > tons of error messages, and not all entries were copied. I had > exported my EndNote library to BibTex text file, renamed it and then > opened it (temporary citation identifiers) to BibDesk ... > > Some of the error messages are included in the below. What can I do about > this? > > I would really love to migrate to BibDesk, but these problems are > making it kind of hard ... and I couldn't find anything on these > issues in the FAQs. > Many thanks in advance, > cheers: Max. > > Untitled 9 warning 75 characters of junk seen at toplevel > > Untitled 97 warning found " at brace-depth zero in string (TeX > accents in BibTeX should be inside braces) > > Untitled 136 syntax error found "Philosophy.", expected end of > entry ("}" or ")") (skipping to next "@") > > Untitled 142 warning 41 characters of junk seen at toplevel > > Untitled 199 syntax error found "Citizenship.", expected end of > entry ("}" or ")") (skipping to next "@") > > Untitled 206 warning 43 characters of junk seen at toplevel > > Untitled 541 syntax error found ",", expected "=" > > Untitled 541 syntax error invalid field name "1724-1804.": cannot > start with digit > > Untitled 542 syntax error found "Peace", expected "=" > > Untitled 542 syntax error found "Philosophy.", expected end of > entry ("}" or ")") (skipping to next "@") > > Untitled 549 warning 70 characters of junk seen at toplevel > > Untitled 723 warning found " at brace-depth zero in string (TeX > accents in BibTeX should be inside braces) > > Untitled 924 warning found " at brace-depth zero in string (TeX > accents in BibTeX should be inside braces) > > Untitled 1283 warning found " at brace-depth zero in string (TeX > accents in BibTeX should be inside braces) > > Untitled 1613 warning found " at brace-depth zero in string (TeX > accents in BibTeX should be inside braces) > > Untitled 1615 syntax error found "sciences", expected end of entry > ("}" or ")") (skipping to next "@") > > Untitled 1622 warning 70 characters of junk seen at toplevel > > Untitled 1653 warning found " at brace-depth zero in string (TeX > accents in BibTeX should be inside braces) > > Untitled 1723 warning 13 characters of junk seen at toplevel > > Untitled 1736 syntax error found "International", expected end of > entry ("}" or ")") (skipping to next "@") > > Untitled 1741 warning 24 characters of junk seen at toplevel > > Untitled 1862 warning found " at brace-depth zero in string (TeX > accents in BibTeX should be inside braces) > > Untitled 2078 syntax error found "Politics", expected end of entry > ("}" or ")") (skipping to next "@") > > Untitled 2087 warning 211 characters of junk seen at toplevel > > Untitled 2148 warning found " at brace-depth zero in string (TeX > accents in BibTeX should be inside braces) > > Untitled 2167 syntax error found "Research", expected end of entry > ("}" or ")") (skipping to next "@") > > Untitled 2173 warning 100 characters of junk seen at toplevel > > Untitled 2481 warning found " at brace-depth zero in string (TeX > accents in BibTeX should be inside braces) > > Untitled 2867 warning found " at brace-depth zero in string (TeX > accents in BibTeX should be inside braces) > > Untitled 3062 warning found " at brace-depth zero in string (TeX > accents in BibTeX should be inside braces) > > Untitled 3281 warning found " at brace-depth zero in string (TeX > accents in BibTeX should be inside braces) > > Untitled 3291 syntax error found ",", expected "=" > > Untitled 3292 syntax error found "Author", expected end of entry > ("}" or ")") (skipping to next "@") > > Untitled 3311 warning 1469 characters of junk seen at toplevel > > Untitled 3334 syntax error found "Congresses.", expected end of > entry ("}" or ")") (skipping to next "@") > > Untitled 3339 warning 14 characters of junk seen at toplevel > > Untitled 3348 warning found " at brace-depth zero in string (TeX > accents in BibTeX should be inside braces) > > Untitled 3471 warning found " at brace-depth zero in string (TeX > accents in BibTeX should be inside braces) > > Untitled 3514 warning found " at brace-depth zero in string (TeX > accents in BibTeX should be inside braces) > > Untitled 3687 warning found " at brace-depth zero in string (TeX > accents in BibTeX should be inside braces) > > Untitled 3779 warning found " at brace-depth zero in string (TeX > accents in BibTeX should be inside braces) > > Untitled 3843 warning found " at brace-depth zero in string (TeX > accents in BibTeX should be inside braces) > > Untitled 3921 warning found " at brace-depth zero in string (TeX > accents in BibTeX should be inside braces) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? 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