On Wed, 29 Aug 2018, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
I don't know of a difference. BibTeX uses (and Jabref adds) a pair of
braces to delimit the contents of each field, so in order to lock in a
verbatim name or an accented letter, you need another pair of braces
inside the first (which are not seen by LaTeX). I'm not sure what would
happen if you added yet another pair (so that LaTeX saw a nested pair of
braces). Maybe the innermost braces would actually get printed? (Just
guessing.)
Paul,
That's interesting. I'll enter an author's name in JabRef, e.g.,
M{\:u}ller and in the LyX document the u will have its umlaut. I've not
before used {{\:u}}. Just for giggles I try both and see if there's a
difference.
Thanks,
Rich
