As pointed out by Juergen, I should save my bibtex file as latin1 encoding
because I would likely get into problem with a UTF-8 encoded bibliography.
He further pointed out I should get all non-ascii character escaped.
I resaved my existing bibliography in JabRef using latin-1 encoding, and all
my child document works fine. The problem arise when I build from my master
document, and I get tons of error:
e.g. Missing $ inserted.
.. Surg Br}, 84-B\penalty0 (SUPP_
I):\penalty0 65--c,
\url
Missing \endgroup inserted
{http://proceedings.ieee/cgi/content/abstract/84-B/SUPP_I/...
The control sequence at the end of the top line
Latex Error: Lonely Item -- Perhaps a missing \list environment
etc
It looks like it is because my bib is not properly escaped. I am wondering
what is the best way to apply proper escape sequence to existing
bibliography database (~200 entries). Juergen suggested using "recode
l1..ltex myfile.bib" but mentioned there maybe chance that it mis-transform
"\" to "\backslash".
Despite the backslash problem (-d option just give me Recoding
reference_articles.bib... failed: Untranslatable input in step
`ISO-8859-1..LaTeX', and failed to convert), my doc now compiles without
error.
At the same time, all my bibliography attached at the end of the doc is
almost empty with a few "a." "b." "c." as the first character!
and my bib is formatted like this:
@ARTICLE\{someone2008,
author = \{someone\},
title = \{The title\},
journal = \{J something\},
year = \{2008\},
Any insight on how I should fix the problem, or deal with the problem is
very much appreciated.
Abe
