That is about bibtex, and therefore latex.The TeX preview is generated by laTeX and bibTeX. BibnDesk is just an app that uses it and to maintain the database.
Christiaan > On 23 May 2024, at 01:04, quark67 via Bibdesk-users > <[email protected]> wrote: > > My question is not about LaTeX, it is about BibDesk. > > Steps to reproduce the problem. > > Go to settings, TeX preview, enter "elsarticle-num" without quotes in BiBTeX > style menu/field. Validate. > > Copy: > > @book{wigner, > author = {Eugene Paul Wigner}, > doi = {10.1007/978-3-663-02555-9}, > publisher = {Springer}, > title = {{Gruppentheorie und ihre Anwendung auf die Quantenmechanik der > Atomspektren}}, > year = {1931}} > > On BibDesk, add this entry with alt+cmd+L. > > Select this new entry if necessary. > > Click on Editing. On "Doi" field, there is a little icon with "@" at the > right side, if you click, you go to the Springer page about this book. Works > as expected. > > Return on BibDesk app, click on TeX Preview. > > This will work as expected and displays: > > [1] E. P. Wigner, Gruppentheorie und ihre Anwendung auf die Quantenmechanik > der Atomspektren, Springer, 1931. doi:10.1007/978-3-663-02555-9. > > Perfect. > > Yet, copy this entry: > > @Inbook{Wigner1931, > author="Wigner, Eugen", > title="Vektoren und Matrizen", > bookTitle="Gruppentheorie und ihre Anwendung auf die Quantenmechanik der > Atomspektren", > year="1931", > publisher="Vieweg+Teubner Verlag", > address="Wiesbaden", > pages="1--13", > isbn="978-3-663-02555-9", > doi="10.1007/978-3-663-02555-9_1", > url="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-02555-9_1"; > } > > On BibDesk, add this entry with alt+cmd+L. > > Select this new entry if necessary. > > Click on Editing. On "Doi" field, tere is a little icon with "@" at the right > side, if you click, you go to the Springer page about the chapter "Vektoren > und Matrizen" of this book. Works as expected. > > Return on BibDesk app, click on TeX Preview. > > No surprise, this don't work, because of the "_" in the doi and the url field. > > So what to do? Replace _ by \_ in the doi and url field? > > OK, I will try this. > > doi="10.1007/978-3-663-02555-9\_1", > url="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-02555-9\_1"; > > I click on TeX Preview. > > It works. The TeX Preview displays: > > [1] E. Wigner, Vektoren und Matrizen, Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1931, > pp. 1–13. doi:10.1007/978-3-663-02555-9_1. > URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-02555-9_1 > > Not sure if this is totally correct, because the _ in the url seems not be a > displayed with a tt font. > > But anyway, if you click then on Editing, and the little icon "@" at right of > the field doi (or url), you go to > https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-02555-9%5C_1 > <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-02555-9%5C_1> and this display : > DOI NOT FOUND > > (displayed on https://www.doi.org/ <https://www.doi.org/> page). > > So what is the right way to have at the same time: > > a doi with "_" which works with the TeX Preview AND which works when we > click on the "@" icon in the doi field when we are in Editing mode? > > Does BibDesk need an update, so it understands "\_" in the doi field as "_", > or does the TeX Preview (more precisely ~/Library/Application > Support/BibDesk/previewtemplate.tex) be updated so it displays a TeX Preview > even if the doi field contains a "_" (without a backslash) ? > > I know that in pure LaTeX, I cannot directly write > "https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-02555-9_1";, but I can for example load the > package url and then write \url{https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-02555-9_1}. > > But here my question is about what to do in the doi field in BibDesk, so that: > • click on the "@" icon at right side of the field works ; > • and the TeX preview also works. > > If this is impossible, the better is to remove the "@" icon in the doi and > the url field. Or remove the TeX Preview. > > But I hope there is another solution. > > Thanks. > >> Le 22 mai 2024 à 23:03, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> a écrit : >> >> Perhaps the discussion in >> <https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/383678/underscore-in-bibtex-url >> <https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/383678/underscore-in-bibtex-url>> >> can help. >> >> Christiaan >> >>> On 22 May 2024, at 21:48, quark67 via Bibdesk-users >>> <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> How to manage the underscore in DOI or url specifically in BibDesk? >>> >>> What is the recommended method? >>> >>> We cannot replace "_" by "\_" because in the DOI or url field of BibDesk, >>> there is a little icon which open the browser to the DOI website with the >>> number in the DOI field, or to the url displayed in the url field, and an >>> address like https://www.my-example.com/a\_test >>> <https://www.my-example.com/a/_test> is NOT the same address as the address >>> https://www.my-example.com/a_test <https://www.my-example.com/a_test>. >>> >>> AND if the "_" is not replaced by "\_", the preview TeX for the >>> bibliography entry cannot be created (a red error is displayed instead). >>> >>> So, please, what is the recommendation for this problem? A complete guide >>> to this problem can be useful (on the website or the user help). >>> >>> If the file ~/Library/Application Support/BibDesk/previewtemplate.tex has >>> to be edited for this problem, what is the edit to do? I have tried adding >>> \usepackage[strings]{underscore} in the preamble, but this don't work >>> (suggested here: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/523253/132405 >>> <https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/523253/132405>). >>> >>> I don't understand why the DOI organization has chosen the character "_" as >>> available character for DOI numbers, as the TeX world uses a lot of DOI, >>> and "_" is special in the TeX world, but this is another question, not for >>> here. >>> >>> For testing, I use in the setting, TeX preview, the "elsarticle-num" BiBTeX >>> style (manually entered). >>> >>> By the way, why this above popup menu don't display all available .bst in >>> the LaTeX installation, a least the .bst in >>> /usr/local/texlive/2024/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst? If this list is too big, >>> there is perhaps a middle between the actual situation (it displays only >>> abbrv, abbrvnat, acm, alpha, amsalpha, amsplain, apalike, gerabbrv, >>> geralpha, gerapali, gerplain, ieeetr, jurabib, jureco, plabbrv, plalpha, >>> plplain, plainnat, siam. Not abbrv-fr, plain-fr for the French, for >>> example). >>> >>> The help says about the list in the popup menu: "This is a list of generic >>> styles that may or may not exist on your system." Perhaps, but why few >>> styles for German or Polish, and not French (and other languages)? >>> >>> Thanks.
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