Re: [Bibdesk-users] two warnings on line -1

[Adam R. M. <ama...@ma...>]

On Aug 18, 2006, at 12:49, Christiaan Hofman wrote:

>
> On 18 Aug 2006, at 8:20 PM, Paul Ingraham, RMT wrote:
>
>>>> Anyone have any idea what two warnings on line -1 of a .bib would  
>>>> be
>>>> about? Not sure how to look for that one... :-)
>>>
>>> Enlarge the window so you can see the context of the warning
>>> message.  The -1 means the parser doesn't have a line number for
>>> the warning.
>>
>> D'oh!  Thank you, Adam.  The warnings are identical.  Both read "no
>> capitalized tokens before first comma".   Good to know that there
>> actually is a more verbose report, but I'm still none the wiser.  :-)
>>
>> Paul
>
> You get this error when there are invalid author names, in this case
> that some name (last name) part is not capitalized. The name parser
> uses capitalization of a name part to decide if it is a "von" or a
> "first name" part. As this is done after reading the file, the parser
> doesn't know the line number and makes it -1.

It would be nice if we added some context (author name) to that  
warning message, but that looks painful to extract from the bt_name.   
At least the next release will have a horizontal scroller so the  
message column will be apparent.

Adam