Re: [Bibdesk-users] Error reading file!

[Adam M. <ama...@ma...>]

On 15 Jun, 2004, at 11:31, Craig Ganoe wrote:

> I tried posting this to the forum on sourceforge, but there does not 
> seem to
> be any activity there.

There isn't :).  I didn't even know there were forums on sourceforge 
until I set up my own project today 
<http://tcobrowser.sourceforge.net/> (sorry for the shameless plug, but 
it needs testing).

> At first I thought it might be because I was
> trying to open a bibTeX file from another application,

This is peculiar.  What happens?  Can you send a sample or post it to a 
bug on sourceforge?

> but I've tried creating
> some one-entry bibTeX files from BibDesk, and they don't open either. 
> I get an
> "Error reading file!" If I edit the file from there, it lists a bunch 
> of error
> messages all in line 9 of this file:


> @inproceedings{Ganoe:(null),

BibTeX doesn't like the () parentheses in the citekey.  Remove those 
and replace (null) with something meaningful, and you're set.  I think 
we need to remove that citekey generating code or else fix it :).

-- 
Adam