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[K B <address@hidden>]

Stupid question: can you bibtex your .bib file successfully, apart
from TeXmacs? Does bibtex throw any warnings when you do that? Haven't
seen this error, but it would be nice to isolate it to TeXmacs first.

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:07 PM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm using TeXmacs 1.0.7.10 and when I generate my bibilography I get the
> error:
>
> TeXmacs] Generating bibliography [bib, tm-plain, Multiplate.bib]
> /nix/store/vcfla7fqprx60vr5vi2zahzr4n6mgy3a-TeXmacs-1.0.7.10/share/TeXmacs/progs/bibtex/plain.scm:519:27:
> In procedure cdr in expression (cdr (bib-field x ae)):
> /nix/store/vcfla7fqprx60vr5vi2zahzr4n6mgy3a-TeXmacs-1.0.7.10/share/TeXmacs/progs/bibtex/plain.scm:519:27:
> Wrong type (expecting pair): "Kagawa, Koji"
>
> I don't know what is wrong with my bibtex:
>
> @inproceedings{Kagawa:1997,
>  author = {Kagawa, Koji},
>  title = {Compositional references for stateful functional programming},
>  booktitle = {Proceedings of the second ACM SIGPLAN international conference
> on Functional programming},
>  series = {ICFP '97},
>  year = {1997},
>  isbn = {0-89791-918-1},
>  location = {Amsterdam, The Netherlands},
>  pages = {217--226},
>  numpages = {10},
>  url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/258948.258969},
>  doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/258948.258969},
>  acmid = {258969},
>  publisher = {ACM},
>  address = {New York, NY, USA},
> }
>
> Why is it expecting the author to be a pair?
>
> --
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