Re: [Bibdesk-users] annote and percent sign

2011-09-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 16, 2011, at 11:30, Christian Pleul wrote: Hey, Using a plain percent sign (%) in the annotation, yields to a compilation error (Runaway argument?) when using pdflatex during the third step* (pdflatex biblatex pdflatex*). Best, -- Christian That'r right.

Re: [Bibdesk-users] annote and percent sign

2011-09-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 16, 2011, at 11:50, Christian Pleul wrote: On 16.09.2011, at 11:40, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Sep 16, 2011, at 11:30, Christian Pleul wrote: Hey, Using a plain percent sign (%) in the annotation, yields to a compilation error (Runaway argument?) when using pdflatex

Re: [Bibdesk-users] annote and percent sign

2011-09-16 Thread Christian Pleul
On 16.09.2011, at 12:11, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Sep 16, 2011, at 11:50, Christian Pleul wrote: On 16.09.2011, at 11:40, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Sep 16, 2011, at 11:30, Christian Pleul wrote: Hey, Using a plain percent sign (%) in the annotation, yields to a

Re: [Bibdesk-users] annote and percent sign

2011-09-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
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

Re: [Bibdesk-users] annote and percent sign

2011-09-16 Thread Christian Pleul
On 16.09.2011, 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. [snip] Having a % in your file is

Re: [Bibdesk-users] annote and percent sign

2011-09-16 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Sep 16, 2011, at 07:57 , Christian Pleul wrote: I think that happens: it is written to the bbl (checked and it is there) and when it gets processed by the pdflatex step the error occurs. What does the complete bbl entry for that item look like? Never having used biblatex/biber, I've no

Re: [Bibdesk-users] annote and percent sign

2011-09-16 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Sep 16, 2011, at 07:45 , Christiaan Hofman wrote: I really meant tex. Bibtex treats percents in a field value as a normal character. I figured you knew that :). Doesn't btparse treat % at top level as a comment? I don't have time to look, but I do recall that it has a couple of minor

Re: [Bibdesk-users] annote and percent sign

2011-09-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 16, 2011, at 17:17, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Sep 16, 2011, at 07:45 , Christiaan Hofman wrote: I really meant tex. Bibtex treats percents in a field value as a normal character. I figured you knew that :). Doesn't btparse treat % at top level as a comment? I don't have

Re: [Bibdesk-users] annote and percent sign

2011-09-16 Thread Christian Pleul
On 16.09.2011, at 17:10, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:On Sep 16, 2011, at 07:57 , Christian Pleul wrote:I think that happens: it is written to the bbl (checked and it is there) and when it gets processed by the pdflatex step the error occurs.What does the complete bbl entry for that item look like? Never

Re: [Bibdesk-users] annote and percent sign

2011-09-16 Thread Maxwell, Adam R
On Sep 16, 2011, at 08:25, Christian Pleul wrote: On 16.09.2011, at 17:10, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: What does the complete bbl entry for that item look like? Never having used biblatex/biber, I've no idea what's going on. See the file attached. The annotation field includes the percent

Re: [Bibdesk-users] annote and percent sign

2011-09-16 Thread Maxwell, Adam R
On Sep 16, 2011, at 08:17, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: Doesn't btparse treat % at top level as a comment? Edit: yes, it does. From bt_language.pod COMMENT \%~[\n]*\n WHITESPACE[\ \r\t]+ JUNK ~[\@\n\ \r\t]+ Old-school bibtex users remove the @