On 6 May 2009, at 10:29 PM, Alex Hamann wrote:

>
> On 06.05.2009, at 19:31, Malcolm Wardlaw wrote:
>
>> I have a problem with Bibtex properly formatting quotes.  Whenever I
>> edit or enter a title or an abstract or any other field, if I put
>> quotation marks in the input field, it doesn't properly put them in
>> braces.

Some quotes are automatically converted to TeX on save, but only if  
you turn tex conversion on in the Files preferences.

Note that quotes in TeX aren't simply escaped by putting them in  
braces, in TeX you should use proper TeX-compatible quotes or TeX  
commands for quotes.

>>  It then kicks out an error next time I load Bibdesk.

And error or a warning? There's a huge difference between those!

>> Does
>> anyone have any advice on this?
>>

Depends very much on what you mean.

Christiaan

>> I have the most recent version of BibDesk - 1.3.20 (1412).
>
> How do you input the quotes? Do you use LaTeX-compatible ones `` ....
> ''  or do you use standard word processor quotes " ... "?
> I for my part have long ago completely switched to the csquotes
> package and therefore also use csquotes macros in BibDesk.
>
> Alex

Depending on which quotes you use, you can choose to convert quotes to 

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