JabRef entry warning

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 10/12/21 2:31 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2021, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
>
>> You have commas at the end of several fields (inside the closing curly
>> brace), including institution, which I think is triggering the error
>> message.
>
> Paul,
>
> All key:value pairs end with commas except for the last one.
>
>> You also have a few places with a funky dash separating a pair of 
>> numbers,
>> rather than a double dash ('--'). That might be the result of copying 
>> from
>> a PDF and pasting. I don't know if that will also cause any indigestion.
>
> Yes, that's not uncommon. I try to catch and repair them when I enter the
> document in JabRef, but aren't always successful. Now corrected.
>
> The error specified the document name, not any key:value pair between the
> opening and closing braces:
> WARN - Name in key 'Paul2012' is empty (probably consecutive 'and'):
> skipping entry 'Paul2012'
>
> The name key has no 'and' in it.
>
> While this is a warning, not an error, I'd still like to have biber 
> accept
> it as correct.
>
> Still puzzled,
>
> Rich
>
I turned your entry into a .bib file, cited it in a dummy document, and 
compiled with biblatex. It specifically flagged the first entry that 
ended with a comma. I think the "name" in the error message is because 
it thinks that, after that last comma, there will be another name = 
value pair in the field that it never finds (due to the closing brace). 
Not the ideal error message in my opinion, but deleting the surplus 
comma did fix it.

I spotted the "and and" Maria flagged, but in my test that did not cause 
an error message, it just mucked up the printed citation.