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Bibtext export, smart quotes error

Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 7:10 am
by mwra
My prefs under 'scan & bib' are set to use 'English' Smart Quotes. I have a reference with this title:

"Could You Define That in Bot Terms"?: Requesting, Creating and Using Bots on Reddit

But on export, via whatever means, to Bibtex format I get:

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... title = {”Could You Define That in Bot Terms”?: Requesting, Creating and Using Bots on Reddit}, ...
Note the opening typographic quote is of the wrong type. I suspect this arises as the quote substitution script is run on the overall export of the whole reference, causing the the code to miss-read

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{"
as closing a string rather than as the opening.

It should be exported as

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... title = {“Could You Define That in Bot Terms”?: Requesting, Creating and Using Bots on Reddit}, ...
At present this means I'm having to manually triage my .bib file in BBEdit every time I export my references in order to fix such parsing errors.

Re: Bibtext export, smart quotes error

Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 9:15 am
by Jon
I've fixed this for the next update.

Jon
Sonny Software

Re: Bibtext export, smart quotes error

Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 9:23 am
by mwra
Thanks!