[racket] Reading bibtex files

I'll get on it. As you know, BibTex is a very poorly described format.
It can parse my humongous Bibtex file, but I haven't spent a ton of
tiny searching for problematic ones in the wild.

Jay

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Danny Yoo <dyoo at hashcollision.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Danny Yoo <dyoo at hashcollision.org> wrote:
>> I think there's a bug in the library.  There appears to be a missing
>> call to (slurp-whitespace ip) in the parsing library.  I'll send a bug
>> report and a patch to the Racket developers.  A diff follows below for
>> those who like looking at patch files.  :)
>
> Until the library gets patched, here's a possible workaround: put the
> trailing "}" on the same line, like this:
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> @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}}
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
>
> The bug involves the parser not properly discarding the whitespace
> right after reading the value "{1735--1780}".
>
>
> I agree with you that the parser needs to be a bit better.  It does
> not currently follow the description in:
>
>    http://artis.imag.fr/~Xavier.Decoret/resources/xdkbibtex/bibtex_summary.html
>
> so it will reject some bibtex files that it shouldn't.
>
>
>
> I've submitted the bug report as:
>
>    http://bugs.racket-lang.org/query/?cmd=view&pr=12779
>
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