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Re: how to deal with bibtex with long fields



On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:16:47 -0400, Denis Laxalde <dlaxalde@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jameson Rollins a écrit :
> > Any suggestions?  There must be some next-gen version of bibtex out
> > there that doesn't have limits from the 80's, right?
> 
> Have you tried bibtex8 (in texlive-extra-utils Debian package)? It has
> some options (--big, --huge, ...) which are supposed to overcome
> limitations from the original bibtex.

Hi, Denis.  I just sent replied to another note about this saying yes, I
have.  As far as I can tell those overcome limitations of the bibtex
file size, but not the field size.  At least none of them fix the
problem.  I still get a field size error:

2 $ bibtex8 --8bit --wolfgang thesis
The top-level auxiliary file: thesis.aux
A level-1 auxilliary file: chapters/intro.aux
A level-1 auxilliary file: chapters/gr.aux
A level-1 auxilliary file: chapters/mm.aux
A level-1 auxilliary file: chapters/llts.aux
A level-1 auxilliary file: chapters/results.aux
A level-1 auxilliary file: chapters/conclusion.aux
A level-1 auxilliary file: appendices/infrastructure.aux
A level-1 auxilliary file: bibliography/aas_macros.aux
The style file: plain.bst
Database file #1: /home/jrollins/documents/ads/thesis.bib
Database file #2: /home/jrollins/documents/ads/LIGO.bib
Your field is more than 10000 characters---line 144 of file /home/jrollins/documents/ads/LIGO.bib
 :  {Scott}, J. and {S
 :                    cott}, S.~M. and {Searle}, A.~C. and {Seifert}, F. and
I'm skipping whatever remains of this entry
Database file #3: bibliography/books.bib
Database file #4: bibliography/theses.bib
Warning--to sort, need author or key in 2010PhRvD..81j2001A
Warning--empty author in 2010PhRvD..81j2001A
Warning--empty title in 2010PhRvD..81j2001A
Warning--empty journal in 2010PhRvD..81j2001A
Warning--empty year in 2010PhRvD..81j2001A
Warning--you've exceeded 1000%ld, the global-string-size, for entry 2008PhRvL.101u1102A
while executing--line 1090 of file plain.bst
*Please notify the bibstyle designer*
Warning--you've exceeded 1000%ld, the global-string-size, for entry 2009PhRvD..80j2001A
while executing--line 1090 of file plain.bst
*Please notify the bibstyle designer*
(There was 1 error message)
2 $ 

jamie.

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