On May 6, 2010, at 19:47, Themis Matsoukas wrote: > > On May 6, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: > >> The proxy icon is the little PDF icon in the titlebar of the panel you see >> when you use "TeX Preview," and that is also the log tab. I'm not actually >> sure what's going on in your case. > > Now I see. > >> Reading the code more carefully, the log doesn't get appended, in spite of >> the comments in the code and what the error message itself says in that case >> (oops). However, that's not the error case you're seeing, based on the >> message. It looks like the latex2rtf preview failed...is that what you're >> showing in the preview? >> > > > To generate the error I sent earlier, I typed the character & in the name > field of a record. > > In the example I sent earlier, I typed the character & in the year field of > the bibdesk record. This caused the error message you see (TeX preview > generation failed ***** ERROR: unable to create preview *****), which is the > only message I have seen when the preview fails due to an offensive > character. Here are two more screenshots, one where preview fails, and one > where it works. > > Themis
Including a naked "&" in a field is indeed an error for TeX. The Log in the preview will also tell you this. If you don't understand that this is wrong in TeX you probably should not even be using the TeX preview. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
