Compile error [FIXED]

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Rich,

the author field is not the same as the label field.

Perhaps it is enclosed by curly braces by default.  In which case, the
label field should thus also be, by default).

But it does make sense not to put Apostrophes into the labels.

greetings, el

On 13/10/2021 15:10, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2021, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
[...]
> Actually, neither bibtex nor biblatex object to apostrophes or other
> accents and umlauts, etc.  It's how they're entered and I had
> completely forgotten how to do it properly until this morning and
> recent caffinization.
> 
> The solution is to enclose the string in curly braces: {}.
> 
> Doing so for @article{{O'Connor2019}, removed that error (and revealed
> a totally different complaint I'll deal with).  But, there were no
> errors generated with these strings:
> 
> author = {Brooks, R.P. and O'Connell, T.J. and Wardrop, D.H. and Jackson, L.E.},
> author = {O'Hagan, M.},
> 
> and the other seven apostrophes because the entire string in which it
> occurs were enclosed in curly braces.
> 
> The initial entry name string had an opening curly brace but not a
> closing one.
> 
> Being bright-eyed and bushy-tailed upon awakening, and having consumed
> my first mug of coffee, allowed me to remember this.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rich

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