[OS X TeX] Re: MacOSX-TeX Digest #1288 - 02/15/05

[Lawrence Paulson]

On 16 Feb 2005, at 01:00, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:

> Problems are more likely to be fixed if you file a bug at 
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=61487&atid=497423 and provide 
> a sample .bib and exact steps to reproduce the problem

Given that the problem involves data loss, it is appropriate to inform 
this list.

To reproduce the problem, open the attached .bib file. BibDesk 
correctly points out the invalid character in despeyroux-proof, but it 
does not mention the undefined string in abadi-conjoining. Fix the 
first error and click on Reopen, and it opens without further 
complaint. Save, and you find that the line journal=toplas is gone.

Past versions of BibDesk reported undefined strings as errors. The lack 
of complaint I took to mean that such string references would now be 
left untouched.

The invalid characters, incidentally, came from another .bib file 
manager, Auc-TeX I think, which thought it was "clever" to replace the 
TeX accents by accented characters in some encoding.

Thanks for helping, and I do think BibDesk has the potential to be 
great.

Larry Paulson

@ARTICLE{abadi-conjoining,
   author = {Mart{\'\i}n Abadi and Leslie Lamport},
   title = {Conjoining Specifications},
   journal = toplas,
   year = {1995},
   volume = {17},
   pages = {507-534},
   number = {3},
   month = may,
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{despeyroux-proof,
   author = {Jo‘lle Despeyroux},
   title = {Proof of translation in {N}atural {S}emantics},
   booktitle = {First Symp. on Logic In Computer Science, LICS '86},
   year = {1986},
   month = {June},
   publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
   note = {Also appears as INRIA Research Report {RR}-514, April 1986},
   location = {Cambridge, MA},
}

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