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LatexTools: Bibtex Navigator doesn't show contents
Submitted by Fredo on Wednesday, 5 April, 2006 - 14:37
Hi!

When I browse a bibtex database with the bibtex navigator, only the "Ref" field is shown. The other columns (Title, Author, Journal) remain empty. I tested this also with the test.bib from tetex, but it is the same there.

I am using jEdit 4.2 with LatexTools 0.5.2 on Ubuntu Linux (Sun SDK 1.5).

I hope anyone can help me with that, I'd really like to use jEdit for texing.

Regards,
Frederik
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Re: LatexTools: Bibtex Navigator doesn't show contents
by felixthecat on Wed, 04/10/2006 - 15:37
This seems to be a problem of the bib-file parser. It does not recognize entries in double quotes. Only entries in curly braces are displayed in the BibTeX navigator. I realized that the following works:

@Article{labelName,
    author = {Smart, Guy},
    title = {Interesting Article}
}

while the following does not work (means: will show no content in the corresponding fields in the BibTeX navigator, BibTeX itself of course accepts it):

@Article{labelName,
    author = "Smart, Guy",
    title = "Interesting Article"
}

Since the latter is standard in my eyes, while curly braces are meant to group words within the fields, this is a severe drawback if you ask me. Especially because I frequently download provided BibTeX entries from databases in the internet which use the double quoted syntax.

Hope that will be fixed someday. (Where can I report this bug? Sorry I'm new in the community.)

Regards,
Felix
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