I wonder about the use of certain characters in the BibTeX name as they are the names used to create the file names when linking to papers. The use of a COLON would mess up processing under Windows and I can think of several characters I would wish to exclude under Linux including many common characters used under LaTeX.

Does this mean that the linkage name to PDF papers should be filtered somehow? Or should the BibTeX name be compatible with common file naming conventions?

Just my $0.02.

Cheers,
Mark

Morten Omholt Alver wrote:

On 12 November 2012 18:30, Oscar Gustafsson <osc...@isy.liu.se <mailto: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

------------------------------------------------------------------------

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Everyone hates slow websites. So do we.
Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics
Download AppDynamics Lite for free today:
http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov
------------------------------------------------------------------------

_______________________________________________
Jabref-users mailing list
Jabref-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jabref-users

--
        


   Mark Dalphin Ph.D.

Director of Bioinformatics

mark.dalp...@pacificedge.co.nz <mailto:mark.dalp...@pacificedge.co.nz>
*Ph:* +64-3-479-5805
*Cell:* +64-21-156-7625
*Skype:* mark.dalphin.pel
<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pacific-Edge/111356775582456> <http://twitter.com/#%21/pacificEdgeLtd> <http://www.youtube.com/PacificEdgeLtd>

87 St David St, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand 9016www.pacificedge.co.nz

<<attachment: mark_dalphin.vcf>>

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single
web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware,
SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial.
Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications!
http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov
_______________________________________________
Jabref-users mailing list
Jabref-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jabref-users

Reply via email to