On Sep 16, 2011, at 16:39, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > > On Sep 16, 2011, at 04:28 , Christian Pleul wrote: > >> >> On 16.09.2011, at 12:11, Christiaan Hofman wrote: >> >>> Feature. An percent in bibtex data is not valid, or more precisely it's a >>> comment character. > > IIRC the bibtex grammar doesn't actually have a comment character, though it > has @comment for scribe compatibility. Having a % in your file is only a > potential problem for TeX; much like an underscore in a title, it would have > to be written to the .bbl file and processed by TeX before a problem actually > appears. >
I really meant tex. Bibtex treats percents in a field value as a normal character. Note that the problem occurs in the pdflatex step, not in the bibtex step. Christiaan >>> So the data is invalid. BTW, if you see it in the third step it means you >>> get it in the tex data, which means you are using the Annotation field in >>> your bibtex style, which probably is something you should not do, therefore >>> it may be your problem. >>> >> >> I am not consciously using the annote field, but maybe it's done by biblatex >> and biber... > > If you were using bibtex, I'd agree with Christiaan's assessment completely. > I just added a percent to an annote field, and BibDesk's preview works fine > with it (using bibtex, not biblatex). I've always considered it a feature > that annote/abstract is ignored by bibtex, so I don't bother cleaning them up. > >> For BD, I only selected the option "Save Annote and Abstract fields at the >> end of the items". > > IIRC that's only done so bibtex doesn't overflow a buffer and choke when > parsing an entry with an excessively long abstract/annote. > > -- > Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
