Is there an equivalent to \ddot for MnSymbol?

Question

In my bibtex file (in Jabref) I have several authors that require an umlaut. I was using \ddot which was doing the trick. Unfortunately I've needed to load some other symbols from MnSymbol that requires amsmath as well. As a result I can no longer use \ddot. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can give my authors back their umlaut?

I get the following error message when I use \ddot: ! Package amsmath Error: \ddot allowed only in math mode.

Answer 1

Use \" for umlauts in the .bib file:

@article{aksin,
  author      = {Aks{\i}n, {\"O}zge and T{\"u}rkmen, Hayati and Artok, Levent and
                 {\k{C}}etinkaya, Bekir and Ni, Chaoying and B{\"u}y{\"u}kg{\"u}ng{\"o}r, Orhan
                 and {\"O}zkal, Erhan},
  title       = {Effect of immobilization on catalytic characteristics of saturated
                 Pd-N-heterocyclic carbenes in Mizoroki-Heck reactions},
  journal     = jomch,
  volume      = {691},
  number      = {13},
  year        = {2006},
  pages       = {3027--3036}
}