> On 24 Feb 2022, at 02:54, David Nicholls via Bibdesk-users > <[email protected]> wrote: > > For various reasons it has been a while since I added anything to my Bibdesk > collection. I have the latest version of Bibdesk (1.8.8) on Mac OS 10.14.6 > (need 32 bit apps). > > I found today (though the problem is probably not new) that when I select Tex > Preview, on nearly all journal entries, the Tex preview fails, but on book > articles, it works. Also, AstroPh/ArXiv entries render Tex previews OK. > > The problem appears to be with the shorthand journal ID used by NASA/ADS. For > example, Astrophysical Journal is entered via NASA/ADS as "\apj". In journals > where there isn't a shorthand name, the Tex preview works. So I edited a > record and replaced "\apj" with "Astrophysical Journal", and the preview works > > All of my Bibdesk entries (books and journal papers) are taken from the > NASA/ADS database/website, which I load and search via a Bibdesk bookmark. > I've been doing this for over a decade with few problems. > > My Tex Preview settings preferences are as per the Bibdesk manual on > Sourceforge. > > Apparently the journal abbreviation in the bibtex entry for journals from > NASA ADS is incompatible with Bibdesk. > > Is there a way to fix this? I suspect not. > > DN > > David C Nicholls > Post-doctoral Research Fellow > Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics > Australian National University
This is not really a question about BibDesk, but rather about tex. \apj is a tex command, which is certainly not a standard command. So it won’t be defined, and tex generation will fail. So BibDesk works exactly as expected. Realize that the tex preview feature is primarily a tool to preview the tex generation, so it can be used to check whether your data is correct for your tex setup. And this seems to work flawlessly for your case. If you want it to work in the sense that it generates the tex preview, y0ou should either change the data by replacing the tex command, or change the tex preview by defining the tex command. You could do the latter by editing the tex preview template. BTW, I find it a bit weird that they use non standard tex commands in their bibliographic bibtex data. Christiaan
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