On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <[email protected]> wrote: > 2013/8/20 Scott Kostyshak <[email protected]> >> >> Is Julien's test case for #8739 invalid? Or your point is that it is rare? > > > IMO syntax errors in bst files are not harmless (per se). I would certainly > not use a broken bst file for a publication, and if a journal provides a > broken bst file, I would ask them to fix it. > > This is not to say that skipping errors would not be a useful feature, but > this does not only apply to bibtex errors. However, if you skip such errors, > you should really know what you are doing, so I would not implement such a > feature in a very prominent place.
Makes sense. Thanks for the explanation. Scott
