Re: [Ebib-users] multiple keywords fields in bib files

[Joost K. <joo...@fa...>]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 11:59:24AM -0300, Abel Morabito wrote:
> > Mmm... I've never come across something like this before... Didn't even
> > know it was possible at all in BibTeX.
> 
> Sorry, I'm new to BibTeX. The file is imported from Connotea at
> www.connotea.org. I've load it in Emacs with bibtex-mode and did a
> bibtex-convert-alien without complaints so I thought the format was right.

i've looked into it a bit. the thing is, BibTeX ignores any fields that it
doesn't know/care about. the keywords field is not normally type-set, so
BibTeX just skips over it, and it doesn't care how many there are.

on the other hand, if you have two title fields or something, BibTeX *does*
issue a warning, and ignores the second one.

i'll have to think a little bit about how i'm gonna handle this.

> > Now, when I tested this code on the BibTeX entry you provide, I noticed
> > another thing: the author field in your sample entry has newlines in it. In
> > itself, that's not a problem, but it turns out that Ebib treats it as a
> > so-called "raw" field, which it shouldn't do. I tracked down the problem,
> > and it seems to be an inconsistency (not to say "bug"...) in Emacs. I don't
> > have a fix for this yet. In principle, this won't be a problem as long as
> > you don't toggle the field's "raw" status.
> 
> It's OK for me.

i looked at the problem a bit further, and it turns out it is certainly not
a bug, or even inconsistent behaviour of emacs. i have a fix for it which
i'll include in the next version. let me know if you need/want it earlier.

joost


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