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bug#69266: 30.0.50; bibtex-parse-entry misreads escaped \}
From: |
Ihor Radchenko |
Subject: |
bug#69266: 30.0.50; bibtex-parse-entry misreads escaped \} |
Date: |
Sat, 24 Feb 2024 12:19:22 +0000 |
Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org> writes:
> Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:
>> According to https://www.bibtex.org/SpecialSymbols/, characters that
>> conflict with Bibtex format description can be \-escaped.
>
> I believe the above webpage is incorrect. If I put something like \}
> into a BibTeX field, BibTeX complains about unbalanced braces.
> This is with BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2022/Debian).
> The parsing algoritm used by BibTeX is very simple. Generally,
> BibTeX fields should contain valid LaTeX code. So something
> like
> title = "$\}$tex",
>
> should work with BibTeX, but it gives the same error message
> "unbalanced braces".
I am wondering if there exists a full Bibtex format description
somewhere. I can see some hints scattered over documentation in
https://ctan.org/pkg/bibtex, but nothing is complete.
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- bug#69266: 30.0.50; bibtex-parse-entry misreads escaped \}, Ihor Radchenko, 2024/02/19
- bug#69266: 30.0.50; bibtex-parse-entry misreads escaped \}, Arash Esbati, 2024/02/23
- bug#69266: 30.0.50; bibtex-parse-entry misreads escaped \}, Roland Winkler, 2024/02/23
- bug#69266: 30.0.50; bibtex-parse-entry misreads escaped \},
Ihor Radchenko <=
- bug#69266: 30.0.50; bibtex-parse-entry misreads escaped \}, Roland Winkler, 2024/02/24
- bug#69266: 30.0.50; bibtex-parse-entry misreads escaped \}, Arash Esbati, 2024/02/25
- bug#69266: 30.0.50; bibtex-parse-entry misreads escaped \}, Roland Winkler, 2024/02/25
- bug#69266: 30.0.50; bibtex-parse-entry misreads escaped \}, Arash Esbati, 2024/02/26
- bug#69266: 30.0.50; bibtex-parse-entry misreads escaped \}, Ihor Radchenko, 2024/02/26
- bug#69266: 30.0.50; bibtex-parse-entry misreads escaped \}, Roland Winkler, 2024/02/26