Bug#343433: bibtex2html: attemps to parse comment fields and fails

[Ralf Treinen <treinen@free.fr>]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:24:51AM +0000, Robert Hart wrote:
> Package: bibtex2html
> Version: 1.77-1
> Severity: important

This is certainly not of severity "important". Set to "wishlist".

> Some bibtex editors such as Pybliographer put comment lines like this:
> 
> @comment{This file has been generated by Pybliographer}
> 
> into .bib files.

If some editors produce bibtex files which does not follow bibtex
syntax then this is rather a bug with these tools. Having said this,
I recognize that @comment are quite common, and that bibtex2html
should probably recognize them properly and skip them.

> Personally, I think bibtex2html should skip over *any* entry it can't 
> understand rather than bailing out with obscure error messages.

I don't think that bibtex2html should try to deal with arbitrarily
broken input.

-Ralf.