Re: Biber produces errors where bibtex8 does not

2014-06-22 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2014-06-21 16:29 GMT+02:00 Benedict Holland: > Which begs the question why are they not automatically escaped? I have a > bibliography of over 70 references. Getting an item error because there is > a problem in my references which has an easy workaround but hours of work > tracing it to the sourc

Re: Biber produces errors where bibtex8 does not

2014-06-21 Thread Benedict Holland
Which begs the question why are they not automatically escaped? I have a bibliography of over 70 references. Getting an item error because there is a problem in my references which has an easy workaround but hours of work tracing it to the source is bad. Can lyx or biber do preprocessing to fix the

Re: Biber produces errors where bibtex8 does not

2014-06-21 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2014-06-20 23:47 GMT+02:00 Benedict Holland: > So it appears that the reason is that biber does not escape the abstract > of a reference, even if it doesn't at all display that abstract. > Specifically this is occurring if a percentage sign is within the abstract. > Apparently all percentage signs

Re: Biber produces errors where bibtex8 does not

2014-06-20 Thread Benedict Holland
So it appears that the reason is that biber does not escape the abstract of a reference, even if it doesn't at all display that abstract. Specifically this is occurring if a percentage sign is within the abstract. Apparently all percentage signs must be escaped? Is this a bug with lyx or with biber

Biber produces errors where bibtex8 does not

2014-06-20 Thread Benedict Holland
Hello, I tried using biber and biblatex following the instructions here: http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex I received some very strange errors like "Lonely \item - perhaps a missing list environment" when some of my references were included. It was actually 2/35 which were throwing the error e