[OS X TeX] BibDesk bug
Adam Maxwell
amaxwell at mac.com
Tue Aug 10 04:15:36 CEST 2004
John,
On Aug 9, 2004, at 19:43, Dr.John R.Vokey wrote:
> No, I tried that; it produces the following, which is still an error:
>
> @article{VokRea1992,
> Author = {Vokey, J. R. and Read, J. D.},
> Journal = {Memory {\{\&}} Cognition},
Thanks for pointing that out. I missed that when debugging this
originally; it apparently gets escaped by C as well, so we can't do the
conversion on it. Consequently, this conversion will be removed in the
next release.
[...]
> I understand the ``cut and paste'' motivation, but at the expense
> of existing .bib files and users who enter code correctly? It's a
> bug, certainly not a feature. At a minimum BibDesk should test first
> whether the ampersand is already escaped.
In general, BibDesk only handles characters that are properly escaped;
by my reading of btxdoc.dvi, any such character should be in braces,
e.g. ampersand should be {\&} rather than \&, but I could be wrong.
The ampersand is just a case that we can't convert properly at this
time.
Anyway, sorry for this regression.
--
Adam
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