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How do I test my .bib files with bibtex?  bibtex seems to want an .aux 
file.

Also, I just tested TeXmacs 1.0.7.9, and it works fine on my .bib file.

On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, K B wrote:

> 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?
> >
> > --
> > Russell O'Connor                                      <http://r6.ca/>
> > ``All talk about `theft,''' the general counsel of the American Graphophone
> > Company wrote, ``is the merest claptrap, for there exists no property in
> > ideas musical, literary or artistic, except as defined by statute.''

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Russell O'Connor                                      <http://r6.ca/>
``All talk about `theft,''' the general counsel of the American Graphophone
Company wrote, ``is the merest claptrap, for there exists no property in
ideas musical, literary or artistic, except as defined by statute.''