Re: Biber produces errors where bibtex8 does not

2014-06-22 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2014-06-21 16:29 GMT+02:00 Benedict Holland: Which begs the question why are they not automatically escaped? I have a bibliography of over 70 references. Getting an item error because there is a problem in my references which has an easy workaround but hours of work tracing it to the source

Re: Biber produces errors where bibtex8 does not

2014-06-22 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2014-06-21 16:29 GMT+02:00 Benedict Holland: Which begs the question why are they not automatically escaped? I have a bibliography of over 70 references. Getting an item error because there is a problem in my references which has an easy workaround but hours of work tracing it to the source

Re: Biber produces errors where bibtex8 does not

2014-06-22 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2014-06-21 16:29 GMT+02:00 Benedict Holland: > Which begs the question why are they not automatically escaped? I have a > bibliography of over 70 references. Getting an item error because there is > a problem in my references which has an easy workaround but hours of work > tracing it to the

Re: Biber produces errors where bibtex8 does not

2014-06-21 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2014-06-20 23:47 GMT+02:00 Benedict Holland: So it appears that the reason is that biber does not escape the abstract of a reference, even if it doesn't at all display that abstract. Specifically this is occurring if a percentage sign is within the abstract. Apparently all percentage signs

Re: Biber produces errors where bibtex8 does not

2014-06-21 Thread Benedict Holland
Which begs the question why are they not automatically escaped? I have a bibliography of over 70 references. Getting an item error because there is a problem in my references which has an easy workaround but hours of work tracing it to the source is bad. Can lyx or biber do preprocessing to fix

Re: Biber produces errors where bibtex8 does not

2014-06-21 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2014-06-20 23:47 GMT+02:00 Benedict Holland: So it appears that the reason is that biber does not escape the abstract of a reference, even if it doesn't at all display that abstract. Specifically this is occurring if a percentage sign is within the abstract. Apparently all percentage signs

Re: Biber produces errors where bibtex8 does not

2014-06-21 Thread Benedict Holland
Which begs the question why are they not automatically escaped? I have a bibliography of over 70 references. Getting an item error because there is a problem in my references which has an easy workaround but hours of work tracing it to the source is bad. Can lyx or biber do preprocessing to fix

Re: Biber produces errors where bibtex8 does not

2014-06-21 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2014-06-20 23:47 GMT+02:00 Benedict Holland: > So it appears that the reason is that biber does not escape the abstract > of a reference, even if it doesn't at all display that abstract. > Specifically this is occurring if a percentage sign is within the abstract. > Apparently all percentage

Re: Biber produces errors where bibtex8 does not

2014-06-21 Thread Benedict Holland
Which begs the question why are they not automatically escaped? I have a bibliography of over 70 references. Getting an item error because there is a problem in my references which has an easy workaround but hours of work tracing it to the source is bad. Can lyx or biber do preprocessing to fix

Biber produces errors where bibtex8 does not

2014-06-20 Thread Benedict Holland
Hello, I tried using biber and biblatex following the instructions here: http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex I received some very strange errors like Lonely \item - perhaps a missing list environment when some of my references were included. It was actually 2/35 which were throwing the error

Re: Biber produces errors where bibtex8 does not

2014-06-20 Thread Benedict Holland
So it appears that the reason is that biber does not escape the abstract of a reference, even if it doesn't at all display that abstract. Specifically this is occurring if a percentage sign is within the abstract. Apparently all percentage signs must be escaped? Is this a bug with lyx or with

Biber produces errors where bibtex8 does not

2014-06-20 Thread Benedict Holland
Hello, I tried using biber and biblatex following the instructions here: http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex I received some very strange errors like Lonely \item - perhaps a missing list environment when some of my references were included. It was actually 2/35 which were throwing the error

Re: Biber produces errors where bibtex8 does not

2014-06-20 Thread Benedict Holland
So it appears that the reason is that biber does not escape the abstract of a reference, even if it doesn't at all display that abstract. Specifically this is occurring if a percentage sign is within the abstract. Apparently all percentage signs must be escaped? Is this a bug with lyx or with

Biber produces errors where bibtex8 does not

2014-06-20 Thread Benedict Holland
Hello, I tried using biber and biblatex following the instructions here: http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex I received some very strange errors like "Lonely \item - perhaps a missing list environment" when some of my references were included. It was actually 2/35 which were throwing the error

Re: Biber produces errors where bibtex8 does not

2014-06-20 Thread Benedict Holland
So it appears that the reason is that biber does not escape the abstract of a reference, even if it doesn't at all display that abstract. Specifically this is occurring if a percentage sign is within the abstract. Apparently all percentage signs must be escaped? Is this a bug with lyx or with