problem with BibTeX file import and export

Robby Stephenson robby at periapsis.org
Fri Feb 27 17:45:14 MST 2009


Hi,

On Friday 27 February 2009, Bernard wrote:
> Hi There !
>
> I have just installed Tellico 1.3 from the Ubuntu package, and I failed
> to import .bib files coming from Gesbib 4. Import seems to operate OK
> with no error messages (if there were any, I didn't know where to find
> them), but in the end I have 0 file imported !

I don't know of any problems with bibtex import. Can you send me the bibtex 
file directly?

> I then imported a small
> file from Amazon.com and attempted to export it to BibTeX : Again it
> seemed to work OK, except that the resulting .bib file only showed one
> line of text, saying :
>
> "Comment generated by Tellico 1.3"
>
> with nothing else and a filesize in accordance with the number of
> characters.

Maybe the book didn't have a bibtex key, and the "skip empty keys" was 
checked? I just tried with 1.3.5 and it seemed to work for my test files.

Robby


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