Dear all,
I always asked Google Scholar to show me the reference for BibTeX in Safari.
Then I simply copied and pasted into my library. With 1.5.7 this seem not
possible anymore. Bibdesk says not supported file format. Syntax wrong.
It is only:
@article{mittelbach1962röntgenkleinwinkelstreuung,
On Mar 9, 2012, at 16:26, bestenborstel wrote:
Dear all,
I always asked Google Scholar to show me the reference for BibTeX in Safari.
Then I simply copied and pasted into my library. With 1.5.7 this seem not
possible anymore. Bibdesk says not supported file format. Syntax wrong.
It is
The reason is that BibDesk does not accept non-ASCII characters in the
citekey (mittelbach1962röntgenkleinwinkelstreuung), but both Google Scholar
and dx.doi.org generate BibTeX with UTF8 citekeys. I personally made a
small script to clean bibtex before importing it - regenerate citekey,
remove
Dear Stian,
The problem with this is not with BibDesk nor BibTeX. The problem is with
Google Scholar or whoever is responsible for that silly BibTeX export that
violates BibTeX syntax rules. Unfortunately we have these days many people who
are responsible for such BibTeX export services who
On Mar 9, 2012, at 07:52 , Stian Håklev wrote:
I raised this as a bug report, but the developers closed it because the
BibTeX specs (designed in 1985) do not allow for UTF8 citekeys. (Personally I
think there should be an option to disregard the citekey completely and
generate a new one
Hi Adam,
thanks a lot for this detailed explanation. This makes it much more clear.
Indeed, in my own little script I had the same problem, as bibtex-ruby also
refuses to ingest this kind of bibtex, so I do a quick regexp to clean up
the citekey before passing it to bibtex (
I left a comment about this issue here:
http://www.crossref.org/CrossTech/2011/11/turning_dois_into_formatted_ci.html(it's
being held for moderation right now).
Stian
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