Question re bib file

Wolfgang Engelmann engelmann at uni-tuebingen.de
Thu Jul 7 16:06:24 UTC 2022



Am 07.07.22 um 10:12 schrieb Herbert Voss:
> 
> 
> Am 07.07.22 um 09:55 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann:
>> Hi,
>> I have a larger bib file for a book, for which a lyx file run spits 
>> this warning
>>
>> [7580] Utils.pm:410> ERROR - BibTeX subsystem: 
>> /tmp/biber_tmp_SWLO/d7dc170ec507816e85d64326c042e07e_4336.utf8, line 
>> 7118, syntax error: found ",", expected one of: number, name (entry 
>> type, key, field, or macro name), end of entry ("}" or ")") or quoted 
>> string ({...} or "...")
> 
> Wolfgang,
> 
> your bib datafile has a syntax error which is detected at line 7118 by 
> biber
> It looks like something as
> 
> ....
> foo = ,
> ....
> 
> Herbert
> 
> 
Thanks, Herbert,

yes, I could change that, but there are probably still many more errors 
left after that.
Therefore my question.

I have in the meantime started to check the bib file (I am using jabref) 
thoroughly and collect the references used in my document in a separate 
lyx file which has almost no text, and I set it to 'all references'. 
Frequent runs (e.g. after having checked all references with A..., then 
B...) of the pdf output show me whether errors/warnings are given. I 
know that I can in Jabref use Quality>check_integrity, but that did not 
disclose critical errors.

Wolfgang


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