Re: [Bibdesk-users] Problem importing paper from journal with name containing "&"

[Cyril G. <cyr...@gm...>]

Ok, the night build seems to work !

Thank you for the (very) prompt modifications !

Cyril


Le 26 juin 2011 à 23:08, Christiaan Hofman a écrit :

> 
> On Jun 26, 2011, at 22:28, Cyril Georgy wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Le 26 juin 2011 à 22:17, Christiaan Hofman a écrit :
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jun 26, 2011, at 21:54, Cyril Georgy wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hello !
>>>> 
>>>> I have problem when I want to import paper from journals containing the symbol "&" (e.g. astronomy & astrophyiscs). I try to import them from the ADS web page, listing the paper in bibtex format.
>>>> All the paper appears and can be directly imported except those containing this symbol, which do not appear.
>>>> 
>>>> I recently re-install my whole system. I know that I did an operation in my old installation fixing this problem, but don't remember what, and I'm unluckily unable to re-find the information on the web.
>>>> 
>>>> Has somebody an idea about that ?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks a lot,
>>>> 
>>>> Cyril Georgy
>>> 
>>> Even though a bare & is not allowed in tex and hence in bibtex, this is normally imported as just text (though using it in tex will fail). So how do you exactly import the item, and what do you mean with "do not appear"? Are you talking about a search group, a web group, or importing through drag/drop or copy/paste? Can you give a link to a sample of such bibtex from where you import?
>> 
>> A web group. For example from the page (sorry for the lenght):
>> 
>> http://cdsads.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?db_key=AST&db_key=PRE&qform=AST&arxiv_sel=astro-ph&arxiv_sel=cond-mat&arxiv_sel=cs&arxiv_sel=gr-qc&arxiv_sel=hep-ex&arxiv_sel=hep-lat&arxiv_sel=hep-ph&arxiv_sel=hep-th&arxiv_sel=math&arxiv_sel=math-ph&arxiv_sel=nlin&arxiv_sel=nucl-ex&arxiv_sel=nucl-th&arxiv_sel=physics&arxiv_sel=quant-ph&arxiv_sel=q-bio&sim_query=YES&ned_query=YES&adsobj_query=YES&aut_logic=OR&obj_logic=OR&author=Maeder%0D%0AMeynet&object=&start_mon=&start_year=2008&end_mon=&end_year=2010&ttl_logic=OR&title=&txt_logic=OR&text=&nr_to_return=200&start_nr=1&jou_pick=ALL&ref_stems=&data_and=ALL&group_and=ALL&start_entry_day=&start_entry_mon=&start_entry_year=&end_entry_day=&end_entry_mon=&end_entry_year=&min_score=&sort=SCORE&data_type=BIBTEX&aut_syn=YES&ttl_syn=YES&txt_syn=YES&aut_wt=1.0&obj_wt=1.0&ttl_wt=0.3&txt_wt=3.0&aut_wgt=YES&obj_wgt=YES&ttl_wgt=YES&txt_wgt=YES&ttl_sco=YES&txt_sco=YES&version=1
>> 
>> In the bottom window, you will see that all the paper appear and can be imported, except the paper from the journal "Astronomy and Astrophysics". I can import them by copying the bibtex item and pasting it directly in my library. But I'm sure that somebody found a way to fix this problem.
>> 
>> Thanks for the prompt answer,
>> 
>> Cyril Georgy
> 
> I don't see any item with that journal in this list. I do see some with journal \aap, maybe you meant these. The problem with these items is that they have "&" in the cite key, which is really invalid in bibtex (& is a special character in tex).  This is why those items aren't recognized as bibtex.
> 
> However, these characters can be parsed by our parser, so we could allow these. Please test this out with tomorrow's nightly build.
> 
> BTW, there are more bibtex bugs in these items. Many use comma and "\&" to separate author names, which is really wrong in bibtex, they should always be separated with "and".
> 
> Christiaan
> 
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