Bug#146438: tetex-base: bibtex deals badly with \% at a linebreak

["C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>]

tags 146438 moreinfo
thanks


I need some more information to narrow your problem down.

At the least, I need a minimal TeX document that tells me what
packages you're using, what bibilography style files you're using,
and so on.  It would also be useful to know whether you're using
latex, pdflatex, hypertex, or whatever to generate your output
files.

With the information I currently have, some possible causes for
the problem include

  1. User error.  There's probably a better way of specifying
     these bib entries that doesn't involve adding arbitrary
     commands to fields.  Also, the \url command doesn't require
     any of the escapes you're using (on the underscores and on
     the %s -- try it!).

  2. Old hyperref.  At the moment, the version of hyperref
     included with Debian is an older version that doesn't deal
     very well with % signs in entries.  A newer version
     (available from CTAN) might.

  3. Choice of bst file.  Some bst files support a url field which
     doesn't require you to use the \url command at all.  See, for
     example, <http://ads.harvard.edu/pubs/bibtex/>.  Using
     pdflatex, a version of your bib entry with a url field
     containing only the URL (with no escapes), and the
     astroads.bst file linked to from this page, I was able to get
     the file to TeX and produce a PDF file with a ``LINK'' field
     that links to the URL you're citing.

     That page also mentions plainnat.bst (included with natbib,
     and present in Debian).  Using plainnat as the bibliography
     style, and ``\usepackage[pdftex]{hyperref}'' in the preamble
     of a sample document citing a cleaned-up bib entry, I was
     able to produce a PDF file with pdflatex that includes a
     working link.

Please reply to this message with some additional information so I
can help you sort things out.

   CMC

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  C.M. Connelly               cmc@debian.org                   SHC, DS
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