Re: latex bibliographies with multiple databases

David Nebauer <[email protected]> was heard to say:

>  From one of the many guides on LaTeX:
>
>     You can use any of the standard characters that you find on your
>     keyboard, except the following 10 symbols:
>            { } % & $ # _ ^ ~ \
>     These symbols may only occur in LATEX commands.
>
>
> The first seven of the characters shown above are included as literals
> by escaping them with a backslash.

Thanks for that.

> There's something else.  You may recall some time ago all the trouble
> taken to ensure entities such as &mdash; and &amp; are preserved in
> database reference entries and subsequently then preserved throughout
> DocBook processing.  Many of my references include entities in document
> titles.  Well, those entities are now appearing in the bibtex entries
> created by runbib.  As you noted, the raw ampersands choke LaTeX.  Is
> there any way of converting those xml-safe entities to LaTeX equivalents
> as runbib exports them?  In the case of '&mdash;' that would be '---'.
>

I don't think this is too hard. I'll have to adapt the character replacement
routine which currently converts the input to XML-safe strings to replace the
entities back to something that LaTeX can grok. Most of the work is to compile
a table that defines the required translations.

regards,
Markus


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