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From: Torsten Wagner <torsten.wagner@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: BUG org-bibtex error for importing bibtex conference entries
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:50:09 +0900
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On 11/24/2011 05:09 PM, Nick Dokos wrote:
> Torsten Wagner<torsten.wagner@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I was going to convert my bibtex file into an org-mode file.
>> I receive an error message for conference entries.
>> E.g.
>> I can read in by org-bibtex-read
>>
>> @CONFERENCE{foo11,
>>    author = {foo, A. and faa, B},
>>    title = {This is the title},
>>    booktitle = {Proceeding of the 5th Org-mode conference},
>>    year = {2011},
>>    month = Jul,
>>    day = {4--5},
>>    conference_name = {org-mode V},
>>    keywords = {published},
>>    location = {Somewhere, org-land},
>>    presentation = {Oral}
>> }
>>
>
> I think the problem is in the reading: after org-bibtex-read,
> *org-bibtex-entries* is still nil. I presume that's why
> org-bibtex-write fails.
>

Yes it seems to be a problem within the bibtex-mode of emacs. I will try 
to send this upstream.
However, I just learned that there is no difference between CONFERENCE 
and INPROCEEDINGS.
A search and replace in my BibTeX file should solve the problem for now.

Thanks for looking into it

Torsten