Bug#361562: tetex-extra: package includes ill-formed .bib file

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Norman Ramsey <nr@eecs.harvard.edu> wrote:

> Package: tetex-extra
> Version: 3.0-17
> Severity: normal
>
>
> The file /usr/share/texmf-tetex/bibtex/bib/ams/amsxport-options.bib
> is badly formed.  The author has forgotten that bibtex does not
> support a comment character.  As a result, any latex file which uses
> this bibliography fails.

Thanks for reporting.  This part is obviously true.

>   \documentclass{article}
>   \usepackage{amsrefs}
>   \begin{document}
>   \nocite{*}
>   \bibliographystyle{amsxport}
>   \bibliography{amsxport-options}
>   \end{document}
[...]
>   Warning--entry type for "[citation-star]" isn't style-file defined
>   --line 35 of file amsxport-options.bib
>   Warning--entry type for "[citation-order]" isn't style-file defined
>   --line 36 of file amsxport-options.bib
>   Warning--entry type for "[verbose]" isn't style-file defined
>   --line 37 of file amsxport-options.bib
>    ... other warnings elided ...
>   (There was 1 error message)

[...]
> But the upstream authors would do well to
> fix the other problems indicated by the warnings.

I'm unsure about the other warnings.  In fact the file consists of
nothing but the comments and the three lines that produce these
options.  This seems to indicate that it is necessary to load some other
bibtex style file before.

Unfortunately I'm not familiar with amslatex, and the documentation for
amsxport (which isn't installed with tetex, it's only in tetex-src als
amsxport.dtx) doesn't help me here.

[Note: 2 further bugs: amsxport documentation is not installed;
amsxport.dtx exits twice in tetex-src.]

Can you, Norman, or somebody else on the lists help here?

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)