On 12 November 2012 18:30, Oscar Gustafsson <osc...@isy.liu.se> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm responsible for, if not generating, at least changing the code such
> that a ':' is not removed from the key.
>
> The reason has to do the the IEEEtran.BST which has an example of the
> IEEEtranBSTCTRL entry type in the manual with a ':' in the key. As I added
> support for it, I also removed the filtering of ':' not to confuse users.
>
> Are there any particular reason for filtering out the ':'? I can see the
> point in not generating a key with it though (as in your example, although
> one can probably argue if there should be a space before the ':', which
> absence indirectly would have solved the issue).
>
I couldn't find any list of disallowed characters in BibTeX keys at the
moment, but a test shows that BibTeX accepts : in the key, so I don't see
any reason to filter it out.
--
Morten
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