Re: [Refdb-users] refdb and bibtex

[Dylan O. <lo...@st...>]

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On Sunday 05 May 2002 18:18, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> Ok, this is bad. Even if it was no RefDB bug, there should be more
> debug output to locate the bug. I'll put this on my todo-list.

> - did you add the styles to the style database?

Ah, no! I really wasn't clear on this. I added the styles to the database=
, and=20
then it worked almost perfectly.=20

Almost, because of a minor but annoying mishandling of the ampersand (\&)=
=20
character. While getref shows that it was preserved through the conversio=
n of=20
my original .bib to .ris (with bib2ris) and importation with refdbc's add=
ref,=20
refdbib outputs it as \& , which bibtex doesn't like.=20

Now that I think of it, the \& really shouldn't be preserved by bib2ris, =
as it=20
wouldn't make sense to any of the other formats. Shouldn't it be translat=
ed=20
by bib2ris into something (what?) the rest of the bibliography formats ca=
n=20
deal with, and then translated back to \& by refdbib when using the bibte=
x=20
output type? Would this be a difficult fix? I've got a wee bit of experie=
nce=20
with C, and would be willing to look at it after I'm done with all of my =
work=20
for the semester..
- --=20
Dylan Oliver=20
http://www.steelbend.org/~losang=20
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