Re: Off-topic biblatex question

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Julio Rojas wrote:
> Dear all, I have been using biblatex for my bibliography for the last
> year. Now, for a paper, I need to use some references that I have in
> this bibliography but a problem arises. In some papers that have
> colons in the title, I had to substitute them for "\addcolon\addspace"
> and when I try to use these records with bibtex an error is presented.
> I would like to be able to define, in the preamble of my lyx document,
> both "\addcolon" and "\addspace" to do exactly what they say, so I
> don't have to go back and do a search and replace for them.

Replacing them with exactly what they do is difficult, since biblatex has a 
smart punctuation tracker.

The most easy substitute is the following. Maybe this is sufficient.

\providecommand\addcolon{:}
\providecommand\addspace{\ }

Jürgen