On Sep 8, 2010, at 19:27, Christiaan Hofman wrote:

> 
> On Sep 8, 2010, at 18:50, Themis Matsoukas wrote:
> 
>> On Sep 8, 2010, at 11:39 AM, Themis Matsoukas wrote:
>> 
>>> The citation record shown below gives me several problems that I cannot 
>>> explain:
>>> 
>>> 1. On the the main bibdesk window, the url (@) is empty, even though the 
>>> url field contains a valid address.
>>> 2. In the TeX preview window,  I get the message "TeX" preview generation 
>>> failed, but a preview *IS* produced (the log is atatched).
>>> 3. When I close the record I get the warning:
>>> 
>>> AutoFile did not have enough information to file this paper.  Would you 
>>> like to continue editing, or close the window and keep this entry as-is?
>> 
>> 
>> After some experimentation I isolated the problem in the url field. If I 
>> remove it, all other problems go away. The url is
>> 
>> http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=3&hid=106&sid=87b6a52e-623b-482f-b74c-85b9630ed343%40sessionmgr112&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=buh&AN=7429233%23db=buh&AN=7429233%23db=buh&AN=7429233
>> 
>> 
>> Themis
>> 
> 
> There are various things that can go wrong with the URL.
> 
> 1. Apparently Apple has problems with the fragment separator in the URL (#). 
> Looking at our code, this used to work in the past because we explicitly 
> don't escape those, but somehow Apple has decided that it doesn't like them, 
> though it's a valid URI character. I don't know how that should be handled, 
> as escaping them would also be wrong.

Correction, it does not seem to be related to the "#" character. It is really a 
problem in the way we try to escape special characters. Though I don't see why 
that actually should give a problem, because in the end we do escape them. 
Anyway, this should be fixed in tomorrow's nightly.

Christiaan

> 2. The error message probably is related to the underfull hbox warning. The 
> warning is shown whenever any of the tex processes say that they fail (return 
> a nonzero return value). You should realize that the purpose of the tex 
> preview is to see whether tex will be able to use the item without any 
> problems, therefore it should warn whenever tex warns.
> 
> 3. I don't know what is going on here. You may also show the status bar on 
> the detail window (View menu), then it will show whether it needs to autofile 
> the linked file, and by clicking the icon you can see which fields it expects.
> 
> BTW, the autofile format is supposed to be a relative path so it should NOT 
> start with "/". Perhaps that's the problem.
> 
> Christiaan
> 


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