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Document "Syn­tak­ti­sche Über­prü­fung"

Open koppor opened this issue 6 months ago • 1 comments

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Syn­tak­ti­sche Über­prü­fung mit ge­gen­über BibTeX ver­bes­ser­ter Feh­ler­be­hand­lung und hilf­rei­che Feh­ler­mel­dun­gen.

I searched https://www.gerd-neugebauer.de/software/TeX/BibTool/bibtool.pdf for "check", but I only found "Semantic Check"

Use case:

I want to validate a .bib file and have the issues found output in a way. Maybe errorformat

koppor avatar Aug 25 '25 09:08 koppor

What's wrong with the error messages of BibTool?

For instance: *** BibTool WARNING (line 1 in _test.bib): Duplicate field `author' overwritten

I think the message points to the exact place and should clearly depict what's wrong.

I see that the BibTool manual does not contain a list of error messages. But you can find some of them in the test file test/parse.t

ge-ne avatar Aug 25 '25 16:08 ge-ne