Bug#343433: bibtex2html: attemps to parse comment fields and fails
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 00:06 +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> 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".
I'm not going to haggle, but this bug does have "a major effect on the
usability of a package, without rendering it completely unusable to
everyone."
> 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.
I never realised @comment{} wasn't part of the "syntax", but you are
right.
> > 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.
What about dealing with input that is so broken that bibtex itself
processes it fine without even issuing a warning?
BTW, I'm probably hallucinating, but isn't this bug a regression? I'm
sure I've been using both pybliographer and bibtex2html for some time,
and not had the problem.
Rob
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Robert Hart <enxrah@nottingham.ac.uk>
University of Nottingham
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