On Tuesday, July 10, 2007, at 08:44AM, "James Howison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm just sending some feedback to a journal site that generates >bibtex (yay!) but puts spaces in the citekey (boo!). Does anyone >know a good reference to which characters are allowed/not allowed in >citekeys?
The LaTeX Companion, 2nd ed. (p. 842) says that \cite and \label keys have the same restrictions as command names, theoretically ([a-z][A-Z]). However, digits and some punctuation characters are allowed, unless they are used in LaTeX's syntax (such as _ or #). >Even better is there something considered the standard reference to >writing and parsing bibtex? I searched for "bibtex specification" >and 'bibtex format specification' without luck. Yeah, the WEB source for bibtex. Good luck with it... Look for a TUGBoat article by Nelson Beebe, cited here http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/software/bibparse/bibparse.html You can also look at the docs (pod files) for btparse, which are in the vendorsrc directory; they're more readable than the bibtex source, in my opinion. BibTypeManager.m has a couple of character set definitions that you might find helpful as well. -- Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
