On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 9:49 AM, christiaan pauw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Everybody I use Lyx 1.5.3 of Mac OS X leapard with TexShop 2.14 I have a problem with a document that has an bibtex bibliogoraphy that cannot compile in anything but plain.bst When I use plain.bst as the style it give (author?) for the author but at leasts gives a bibliography at the end When I try to use natbib or apsrmp the document cannot compile at all. The error message says "misplaced alignment tab charachter &" Is there possibly a fault in my .bib file. (like a misplaced "&"). How does one check a .bib file for errors on Mac OS X ?
You probably have an unescaped "&" in your bib file, which needs to be written: \&. Otherwise, LaTeX interprets it as a tab alignment character, hence the error.
You can open the bib file with any text editor to fix this. rh
