To add to Christiaan's statement: Simon wants \thinspace, others want
nonbreaking space, and I personally want math and particularly sub/
superscript commands to be parsed. The slippery slope isn't hard to
see; either we add a thousand special cases, or implement a full TeX
interpreter. Our present parsing technique isn't robust or scalable
enough to handle all of these cases; it was designed for efficiently
parsing font commands in short strings, and very little else.
With all that in mind, it may be possible to write an ANTLR grammar to
handle most of what we need, and do it efficiently. That's keeps
getting pushed to the end of my to-do list, so if someone else wants
to start hacking a grammar with ANTLRWorks, be my guest. We wouldn't
bother with \begin{environment} commands or implementing
any .sty/.bst/.cls files, so it would be simpler than latex2rtf.
--
Adam
On Aug 14, 2007, at 03:17, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
> No, because there is no end to this.
>
> Christiaan
>
> On 14 Aug 2007, at 12:06 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote:
>
>>
>> On 14.08.2007, at 12:02, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>>
>>> Can but won't. As BibDesk is not a full latex parser and latex
>>> parsing is slow, while display happens a lot, there is only a
>>> limited
>>> amount of cleaning and tex parsing we can do.
>>
>> I understand why this isn't done by default, but could the custom
>> character conversion be tweaked in a way that it handles this
>> properly?
>>
>> simon
>>>
>>> Christiaan
>>>
>>> On 14 Aug 2007, at 11:43 AM, Simon Spiegel wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> this is a bit of an esoteric question: For some author entries like
>>>> 'Wells. H. G.', I use the latex thin space \, between the initials,
>>>> so the entry looks like author = {Wells, H.{\,}G.}. This works, but
>>>> for purely aesthetic reasons (and also for HTML export) I'd would
>>>> prefer if BibDesk displayed the \, as thin space once the LaTeX
>>>> command has been entered. I tried to do this with the TeX
>>>> conversion
>>>> pref, and pasted a thin space (via the little PopChar app) in the
>>>> Unicode character section, but as result the \, command was gone
>>>> after saving. Can this be done somehow?
>>>>
>>>> simon
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