On 07/05/2015 11:10 AM, Haines Brown wrote:
> Peter Flynn <
pe...@silmaril.ie> writes:
>
>> On 07/03/2015 10:20 AM, Haines Brown wrote:
>>> Ulrike Fischer <
ne...@nililand.de> writes:
>>>
>>>> abstract={aaa "if a= b" bbb}
>>>>
>>>> should work fine.
>>>>
>>>> abstract="aaa "if a= b" bbb"
>>>
>>> Thank you. That is a big help.
>>>
>>> In cases where a .bib stanza has something like "month = 27
>>> October" biber complains, but it is not fatal.
>>
>> Both are very good examples of very bad data.
>>
>> month = 27 October : month means *month*, not day or date.
>>
>> Unfortunately, most of us get sent bad data all the time. Human brains
>> are very good at working round it; computers are not :-)
>
> Peter, thanks. A little mis-communication, for the quotation marks were
> not in a .bib file, but only in my message.
My comment about quotes (delimiters) referred to the example
abstract="aaa "if a= b" bbb"
> That is, this is what I actually have:
>
> month = 27 October
This is illegal in a BIBTeX file. You can only omit the delimiters if
the value is *entirely* numeric, eg year = 2015, so it should be
month = {Oct} or month = "Oct".
> So if a publication appeared on a specific day, how does one incorporate
> that in the .bib file so as not to produce warnings?
I think Johannes has answered that.
///Peter