BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ BibTex Question

[gkl]

Dear All,

I have a number of inproceedings entries in my .bib file, which compiles fine. The only issue is that BibTex gives me warnings about empty publisher for a number of entries.

As far as I know, publisher is an optional field for inproceedings entries so it should not be doing that; there is no warning for other optional fields such as note.

However, these entries refer to conference proceedings which do not have a publisher; the papers were collected in a book distributed to the conference delegates, they are available online but were not published in the traditional sense.

Is there any way I can stop BibTex giving me this warning (any special entry in the publisher's field or anything like that)?

Regards,
George

[kaiserkarl13]

I don't get this warning when I leave the publisher fields out for an inproceedings entry. I do get them when I leave it out for an incollection entry, however, even though publisher is supposedly an optional field for incollection entries as well. It may be that the particular style file you are using laid down the law and declared that inproceedings entries needed a publisher.

Does it mess up the output? If not, I'd just ignore the messages. Or you can edit the .bst file; mine has a publisher empty$ line in "inproceedings" but not under "incollection", which is what causes the warning. I don't know enough raw BibTeX to tell you exactly what to type off the top of my head.

[bazhanov]

I had a similar problem. For "incollection", I had warning that the field "pages" is missing, though my collection is without pages. After entering pages={nill}, I managed to get rid of this warning.