> On 18 Jun 2024, at 15:15, Nathan <nathan.artist....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Jun 18, 2024, at 7:45 AM, Bertolt Meyer wrote: >> >> Dear fellow bibdesk users, >> >> since a few bibdesk updates ago, I encounter the following issue when >> pasting a doi into bibdesk in order to make it retrieve an entire entry from >> the internet (i.e., I paste a doi into the list of refrerences view with >> cmd+v): In the resulting entry, in the Pages field, the character between >> the first and the last page of the given entry is rendered as „â“ (e.g., >> Pages 87â102), breaking the preview and LaTeX/BibTex rendering unless I >> manually correct it to - or -- every time. Any idea how I can fix this? I am >> on bibdesk 1.9.2. > > I don't know if this is a bug that requires a software fix (perhaps > Christiaan can address that). > > I will mention that I often encounter various small data quality issues > similar to this one, depending on the data source. Whenever I encounter such > a recurrent problematic character, I create a smart group in BibDesk to catch > it. For example, in your case the smart group rule would be: Pages contains > â. Then if you have "Show group counts" enabled in BibDesk's Display > preferences, the list of smart groups in the sidebar will show you how many > publications have the problematic character. If the count is non-zero, you > can do a Database Find and Replace within the smart group to replace the > problematic character. > > Nathan
We just download the bibtex from the DOI site. I think they get out from the site where the item originates. So if there are some errors in the data, it is probably the data on this site that contains the error. It could be an encoding problem, but this particular situation does not look like one.So it is almost certainly not a problem that is caused by BibDesk. There is not much we can do about this, especially automatically. So you need to fix this manually. Although noticing it can be problematic. If you know what typos often occur for you (it may depend open the kind of sources you use) you could use a mechanism like Nathan described, or perhaps Database Search and Replace. Christiaan _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
