Bug#343433: bibtex2html: attemps to parse comment fields and fails
Dear bibtex2html user,
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:24:51AM +, Robert Hart wrote:
Package: bibtex2html
Version: 1.77-1
Severity: important
Some bibtex editors such as Pybliographer put comment lines like this:
@comment{This file has been generated by Pybliographer}
into .bib files.
The mistake was mine. I indeed introduced this bug recently (in
version 1.77, while trying to fix some other bug related to unbalanced
braces in comments introduced).
I sincerely apologize for the mess. I've just built a release 1.78 of
bibtex2html where the parsing of @comment is fixed.
Best regards,
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Bug#343433: bibtex2html: attemps to parse comment fields and fails
Package: bibtex2html
Version: 1.77-1
Severity: important
Some bibtex editors such as Pybliographer put comment lines like this:
@comment{This file has been generated by Pybliographer}
into .bib files.
AFAICT bibtex2html treats this as a regular entry, and is looking for a
comma after @comment{This and fails to find it.
Personally, I think bibtex2html should skip over *any* entry it can't
understand rather than bailing out with obscure error messages.
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Bug#343433: bibtex2html: attemps to parse comment fields and fails
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:24:51AM +, Robert Hart wrote:
Package: bibtex2html
Version: 1.77-1
Severity: important
This is certainly not of severity important. Set to wishlist.
Some bibtex editors such as Pybliographer put comment lines like this:
@comment{This file has been generated by Pybliographer}
into .bib files.
If some editors produce bibtex files which does not follow bibtex
syntax then this is rather a bug with these tools. Having said this,
I recognize that @comment are quite common, and that bibtex2html
should probably recognize them properly and skip them.
Personally, I think bibtex2html should skip over *any* entry it can't
understand rather than bailing out with obscure error messages.
I don't think that bibtex2html should try to deal with arbitrarily
broken input.
-Ralf.
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Bug#343433: bibtex2html: attemps to parse comment fields and fails
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 00:06 +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote:
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:24:51AM +, Robert Hart wrote:
Package: bibtex2html
Version: 1.77-1
Severity: important
This is certainly not of severity important. Set to wishlist.
I'm not going to haggle, but this bug does have a major effect on the
usability of a package, without rendering it completely unusable to
everyone.
If some editors produce bibtex files which does not follow bibtex
syntax then this is rather a bug with these tools. Having said this,
I recognize that @comment are quite common, and that bibtex2html
should probably recognize them properly and skip them.
I never realised @comment{} wasn't part of the syntax, but you are
right.
Personally, I think bibtex2html should skip over *any* entry it can't
understand rather than bailing out with obscure error messages.
I don't think that bibtex2html should try to deal with arbitrarily
broken input.
What about dealing with input that is so broken that bibtex itself
processes it fine without even issuing a warning?
BTW, I'm probably hallucinating, but isn't this bug a regression? I'm
sure I've been using both pybliographer and bibtex2html for some time,
and not had the problem.
Rob
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