unknown macro \rq (apostrophe)

[pierre-haessig]

I have trouble processing a BibTex file which contains {\rq} macro instead of plain text apostrophes. I believe those macros are inserted automatically by kbibtex, because when I look at the "source view" of kbibtex, these \rq are not visible but replaced by the actual character ’ ("right single quotation mark", which is the same as apostrophe).

bibtex2html outputs the warning message Unknown macro: \rq and this macro is erased in output html file.

I believe the expected behavior would be to replace{\rq} by the html entity ’ (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Entering_apostrophes)

Example:

@inbook{Multon:2013:TIBE8100,
author = "Multon, Bernard and Aubry, Judica{\"e}l and Haessig, Pierre and {Ben Ahmed}, Hamid",
booktitle = "{Technique de l{\rq}Ing{\'e}nieur}",
month = apr,
pages = "BE8100",
title = "{Syst{\`e}mes de stockage d{\rq}{\'e}nergie {\'e}lectrique}",
year = "2013"

}

This yields a title in html "Systèmes de stockage dénergie électrique" (instead of "...d’énergie...")

versions: I'm using bibtex2html version 1.98, compiled on Thu Oct 27 07:47:01 UTC 2016 from Debian stretch, which is calling BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2016/Debian).

[pierre-haessig]

as a workaround, thanks to the -m option to load a LaTex macro file, I get the correct behavior with a file containing the following line:

\newcommand{\rq}{’}

[backtracking]

Thanks for reporting this. It is fixed.

Jean-Christophe

On 12/09/2017 11:43, Pierre Haessig wrote:

I have trouble processing a BibTex file which contains |{\rq}| macro instead of plain text apostrophes. I believe those macros are inserted automatically by kbibtex, because when I look at the "source view" of kbibtex, these \rq are not visible but replaced by the actual character ’ ("right single quotation mark", which is the same as apostrophe).

bibtex2html outputs the warning message |Unknown macro: \rq| and this macro is erased in output html file.

I believe the expected behavior would be to replace|{\rq}| by the html entity |’| (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Entering_apostrophes)

Example:

|@inbook{Multon:2013:TIBE8100, author = "Multon, Bernard and Aubry, Judica{\"e}l and Haessig, Pierre and {Ben Ahmed}, Hamid", booktitle = "{Technique de l{\rq}Ing{\'e}nieur}", month = apr, pages = "BE8100", title = "{Syst{`e}mes de stockage d{\rq}{\'e}nergie {\'e}lectrique}", year = "2013" |

}

This yields a title in html "Systèmes de stockage dénergie électrique" (instead of "...d’énergie...")

versions: I'm using |bibtex2html version 1.98, compiled on Thu Oct 27 07:47:01 UTC 2016| from Debian stretch, which is calling |BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2016/Debian)|.

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[backtracking]

that's indeed a workaround

Jean-Christophe

On 12/09/2017 11:51, Pierre Haessig wrote:

as a workaround, thanks to the |-m| option to load a LaTex macro file, I get the correct behavior with a file containing the following line:

|\newcommand{\rq}{’} |

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[MLopez-Ibanez]

This was fixed in 98d551dbb01cf586ac284cb8e9dd45d1dfdb708e