[racket] Reading bibtex files

From: Luke Vilnis (lvilnis at gmail.com)
Date: Mon May 21 10:50:59 EDT 2012

If I delete all the newlines and spaces (aside from spaces around "="
signs) it works... Maybe there's some feature to ignore whitespace?

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Laurent <laurent.orseau at gmail.com> wrote:

> (replying to list)
>
> Thanks, that was a good idea, but conversion to unix format (I'm on linux)
> did not help unfortunately.
> Now the message is "...got #\newline;..." instead.
>
> Laurent
>
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 4:28 PM, J. Ian Johnson <ianj at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Not a user of this library, but this looks like a crlf issue. Are you in
>> windows?
>> -Ian
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Laurent <laurent.orseau at gmail.com>
>> To: Racket Mailing List <users at lists.racket-lang.org>
>> Sent: Mon, 21 May 2012 09:46:54 -0400 (EDT)
>> Subject: [racket] Reading bibtex files
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to use scriblib/bibtex which looks like a wonderful tool, but
>> I can't seem to have it work:
>>
>> #lang racket
>> (require scriblib/bibtex)
>>
>> (define-bibtex-cite
>>  "biblio.bib"
>>  ~cite citet generate-bibliography)
>>
>> fails with:
>>
>> ../../usr/lib/racket-5.3.0.8/collects/scriblib/bibtex.rkt:84:9:
>> read-entry:
>> Parsing entry, expected , or }, got #\return; label is
>> "hochreiter_long_1997"; atag is "pages"; aval is "1735--1780" @ line 9
>> column 0 byte 219
>>
>> The offending bib entry, which is the first in the file, is:
>> @article{hochreiter_long_1997,
>>    author = {Hochreiter, S. and Schmidhuber, J.},
>>    title = {Long {Short-Term} Memory},
>>    volume = {9},
>>    number = {8},
>>    journal = {Neural Computation},
>>    year = {1997},
>>    pages = {1735--1780}
>> }
>>
>> but all other entries I tested alone failed too.
>> I tried adding "," after the pages, after the last "}", change {} to "",
>> but no success.
>>
>> Do I use it incorrectly?
>>
>> (Plus I'd like to use it in slideshow, if anyone has something for
>> that...)
>>
>> Laurent
>>
>>
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