[referencer] problems when importing bibtex entries

Brice Goglin Brice.Goglin at ens-lyon.org
Mon Mar 5 10:08:26 EST 2007


Brice Goglin wrote:
> John Spray wrote:
>   
>> Hmm, when I import this snippet from a UTF-8 encoded file, it works but
>> the ß and so on get manged.
>>     
>
> I should have chosen another example, these German character could
> confuse the discussion :)
>
> I don't have any problem with these special characters here. After
> searching a little bit, I found out that the failure is caused by the
> double-dash in the institution:
>   INSTITUTION = { University of Erlangen-Nürnberg -- Computer Science
> Department - Operating Systems - {IMMD IV} },
>     => fails
>   INSTITUTION = { University of Erlangen-Nürnberg - Computer Science
> Department - Operating Systems - {IMMD IV} },
>     => works
>
> Apart from this problem, I finally manage to locate where my other
> failing entries had a problem. It seems that Referencer does not like
> having a quote in the publisher or booktitle field. I had several
> entries with "O'Reilly" or "Developer's" in the publisher or booktitle
> field, this get accepted once I remove the quote. Having a quote in the
> title or author does not seem to cause any problem. Here are the failing
> entries, in case you want to look at it:
>
> @misc{ braam99intermezzo,
>   author = "Peter Braam Braam",
>   title = "{T}he {I}nter{M}ezzo {F}ile {S}ystem",
>   booktitle = "Proceedings of the O'Reilly Perl Conference 3",
>   year = "1999",
>   url = "http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/braam99intermezzo.html"
> }
>
> @Book{ bovet03understanding,
>   author = {Daniel P. Bovet and Marco Cesati},
>   title = "{U}nderstanding the {L}inux {K}ernel, {S}econd {E}dition",
>   publisher = "O'Reilly",
>   year = 2003,
>   isbn = "0-596-00213-0",
> }
>
> @Book{ love04linux,
>   author = {Robert Love},
>   title = "{L}inux {K}ernel {D}evelopment",
>   publisher = "Developer's Library, Sams Publishing",
>   year = 2004,
>   isbn = "0-672-32512-8",
> }
>
>   

To bring more confusion, there are some entries where the quote is
accepted in booktitle. For instance:

@inproceedings{ schmuck02gpfs,
  author = "Frank Schmuck and Roger Haskin",
  title = "{GPFS}: {A} {S}hared-{D}isk {F}ile {S}ystem for {L}arge
{C}omputing {C}lusters",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the Conference on File and Storage
Technologies (FAST'02)",
  publisher = "USENIX, Berkeley, CA",
  pages = "231--244",
  year = "2002",
  month = JAN,
  address = "Monterey, CA",
}

Brice




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