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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org>
Cc: Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org>, 69266@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#69266: 30.0.50; bibtex-parse-entry misreads escaped \}
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2024 12:19:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8734tixdf9.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a5nr9p8f.fsf@gnu.org>

Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org> writes:

> Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:
>> According to https://www.bibtex.org/SpecialSymbols/, characters that
>> conflict with Bibtex format description can be \-escaped.
>
> I believe the above webpage is incorrect.  If I put something like \}
> into a BibTeX field, BibTeX complains about unbalanced braces.
> This is with BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2022/Debian).
> The parsing algoritm used by BibTeX is very simple.  Generally,
> BibTeX fields should contain valid LaTeX code.  So something
> like
>      title = "$\}$tex",
>
> should work with BibTeX, but it gives the same error message
> "unbalanced braces".

I am wondering if there exists a full Bibtex format description
somewhere. I can see some hints scattered over documentation in
https://ctan.org/pkg/bibtex, but nothing is complete.

-- 
Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
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  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-24 12:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-19  9:14 bug#69266: 30.0.50; bibtex-parse-entry misreads escaped \} Ihor Radchenko
2024-02-23 12:07 ` Arash Esbati
2024-02-23 15:25   ` Roland Winkler
2024-02-24 12:19     ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2024-02-24 16:05       ` Roland Winkler
2024-02-25 17:50         ` Arash Esbati
2024-02-26  0:50           ` Roland Winkler
2024-02-26 14:42             ` Arash Esbati
2024-02-26 17:08             ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-02-26 18:56               ` Roland Winkler

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