Open larsgw opened 4 years ago
The biblatex manual makes no mention of @comment at all. It probably just wants balanced braces everywhere
Tame the Beast says
There is a special entry type named@comment. The main use of such an entry type is to comment a large partof the bibliography easily, since anything outside an entry is already a comment, and commenting out one entry may beachieved by just removing its initial@
which I take to mean you can wrap multiple entries in a @comment{....}
and have them commented out.
BibTeXing says
For Scribe compatibility, the database files allow an @COMMENT command; it’s not really needed because BibTEX allows in the database files anycomment that’s not within an entry. If you want to comment out an entry, simply remove the ‘@’ character preceding the entry type.
biblatex
andnatbib
treat@comment
entries differently. However, neither treat them as I implemented based on a summary I found, namely from@comment
to the end of the line (source).biblatex
seems to treat it as a regular entry (e.g. expecting opening braces and ignoring everything including other entries until the end brace), whilenatbib
seems to just ignore the@comment
text, so if an entry starts with@comment
instead of@book
it does nothing. However, it does not require@comment
to be an entry, asbiblatex
does. Also,natbib
behavior differs from the aforementioned summary in that it still counts entries that start on the same line as@comment
, while the summary states "that everything from the@Comment
and to the end of line is ignored".Examples: