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[Ralf Juengling <address@hidden>]

On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> > I have compiled a bib file and reference its entries using
> > the cite macro. I invoked 'Document->Update->Bibliography'
> > a couple of times, but there still is a large number of
> > activated cite macros that got evaluated to question marks
> > instead of numbers. I checked for typos, everything looks
> > right. Is this a known bug?
>
> Strange, I don't have this bug. Maybe you mismanipulated something
> or there is a parse error in your Bibfile. If not, you may send us
> the files so that we can reproduce the problem.

I found what causes this error: The symbols referring to the
bibtex database entries have either an underscore (_) or an
ampersand (&) in it. E.g., 'ballard&brown1982' doesn't work
for texmacs, although bibtex does not complain.

ralf