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Tien Dapeng

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Sep 7, 1993, 3:36:19 AM9/7/93
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Help needed:

When I run bibtex I got the following error message. My .bib file
has only one title in it:

@inproceedings{Ples64,
AUTHOR = IA Pless,
TITLE = PEPR,
BOOKTITLE = Proceedings of the International Conference on
High Energy Physics,
ADDRESS = Dubna,
PAGES = 409,
YEAR = 1964}

Please let me know if any of you had the similar problem and how
to fix it.

Many thanks in advance:

----------------------------------Here is the error message:
Please type input file name (no extension)--This is BibTeX,
Vax/VMS Version 0.99 c

The top-level auxiliary file: as.aux

A level-1 auxiliary file: assign.aux

A level-1 auxiliary file: asbiblio.aux

The style file: alpha.bst

Database file #1: asnew.bib

"IA Pless" is a string literal, not a function, for entry Ples64

while executing---line 802 of file alpha.bst

0 is an integer literal, not a function, for entry Ples64

while executing---line 802 of file alpha.bst

There is no name in "" for entry Ples64

while executing---line 802 of file alpha.bst

"" is a string literal, not a function, for entry Ples64

while executing---line 802 of file alpha.bst

There is no name in "" for entry Ples64

while executing---line 802 of file alpha.bst

"" is a string literal, not a function, for entry Ples64

while executing---line 802 of file alpha.bst

"64" is a string literal, not a function, for entry Ples64

while executing---line 802 of file alpha.bst

ll is an illegal case-conversion string for entry Ples64

while executing---line 802 of file alpha.bst
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Dapeng Tien t...@np.ac.sg Phone: 460-8062

Glenn Maughan

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Sep 8, 1993, 8:58:00 PM9/8/93
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t...@nova.np.ac.sg (Tien Dapeng) writes:

>Help needed:

>When I run bibtex I got the following error message. My .bib file
>has only one title in it:

>@inproceedings{Ples64,
> AUTHOR = IA Pless,
> TITLE = PEPR,
> BOOKTITLE = Proceedings of the International Conference on
> High Energy Physics,
> ADDRESS = Dubna,
> PAGES = 409,
> YEAR = 1964}

>Please let me know if any of you had the similar problem and how
>to fix it.

Try to put your names and titles in double quotes.

@inproceedings{Ples64,
AUTHOR = "IA Pless",
TITLE = "PEPR",
BOOKTITLE = "Proceedings of the International Conference on
High Energy Physics",
ADDRESS = "Dubna",
PAGES = 409,
YEAR = 1964}

That may be your problem. I don't think bibtex can parse your first entry
because it can't read the strings.

Hope this helps,
Glenn.
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Glenn Maughan -----------------------------------------------------
Object Technology Group
Department of Software Development
Monash University AUSTRALIA email: gmau...@pawpaw.fcit.monash.edu.au

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