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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-bibstrtl.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-bibstrtl.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..c8665ba7998 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-bibstrtl.html @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label bibstrtl</title> +</head><body> +<h3>‘String too long’ in BibTeX</h3> +<p/>The BibTeX diagnostic “Warning–you’ve exceeded 1000, the +<code>global-string-size</code>, for entry <code>foo</code>” usually arises +from a very large abstract or annotation included in the database. +The diagnostic usually arises because of an infelicity in the coding of +<i>abstract.bst</i>, or styles derived from it. (One doesn’t +ordinarily output annotations in other styles.) +<p/>The solution is to make a copy of the style file (or get a clean copy +from CTAN — <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtools/abstract.bst">biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtools/abstract.bst</a>), and rename it (e.g., on a +long file-name system, to <i>abstract-long.bst</i>). Now edit it: find +function <code>output.nonnull</code> and +<ul> +<li> change its first line (line 60 in the version on CTAN) + from + <blockquote> +<pre> +{ 's := +</pre> + </blockquote><p> +to + <blockquote> +<pre> +{ swap$ +</pre> + </blockquote><p> + Finally, +<li> delete the function’s last line, which just says “<code>s</code> + (line 84 in the version on CTAN). +</ul> +Finally, change your <code>\</code><code>bibliographystyle</code> command to refer to the +name of the new file. +<p/>This technique applies equally to any bibliography style: the same +change can be made to any similar <code>output.nonnull</code> function. +<p/>If you’re reluctant to make this sort of change, the only way forward +is to take the entry out of the database, so that you don’t encounter +BibTeX’s limit, but you may need to retain the entry because it +will be included in the typeset document. In such cases, put the body +of the entry in a separate file: +<blockquote> +<pre> +@article{long.boring, + author = "Fred Verbose", + ... + abstract = "{\input{abstracts/long.tex}}" +} +</pre> +</blockquote><p> +In this way, you arrange that all BibTeX has to deal with is the +file name, though it will tell TeX (when appropriate) to include +all the long text. +<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=bibstrtl">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=bibstrtl</a> +</body> |