[Tugindia] Treating the underscore as a normal character

[Shruthi Jayaram]

Dear TeX Users,

One of the first things you learn is not to use underscores in file
names or citations. Unfortunately, I'm working with a long and
pre-defined .bib file that uses underscores in every single citation
key. Now when I try to compile my bibliography in the "annotation"
style, I'm tripped up on each citation with a "Missing $ inserted"
error, as TeX understandably thinks I should be in math mode while
using underscores.

I'm trying to avoid the option of editing out the underscore from
every single .bib entry - would anyone be able to help? Is there was
some kind of global command I could insert in my .tex file to change
how TeX views underscores? I searched online and came up with a
suggestion to define the underscore as an "active character" which may
fix this problem, but am not tech (or TeX) savvy enough to do that!

Would very much appreciate any advice!

Thanks,

Shruthi



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> I'm sorry to have found the following post of this date on the W3C
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> which points to this announcement
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>   http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/news/news102.shtml
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> from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The
> Ohio State University of the sudden death of Eitan Gurari on
> June 22.
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> Gurari was known in the discussion here as the author of tex4ht,
> a widely used tool for the translation of LaTeX to HTML and
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