Bug#761052: gap-gapdoc: BibTeX's names Jr part issue

[Jerome BENOIT]

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Hello, thanks for the update.

On 18/05/15 14:58, Bill Allombert wrote:
> reassign 761052 gap-guava
> quit
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 12:03:58PM +0200, Jerome Benoit wrote:
>> Package: gap-gapdoc
>> Version: 1.5.1-1
>> Severity: normal
>> Tags: upstream
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> I was encountering this issue while I was trying to generate thedocumentation for
>> the GUAVA GAP package:
>> it appears that the encountered issue is caused by the Jr of the fifth name in the author entry
>> of the last reference, aka TSSFC04: a closer look (Print within the gapdoc code itself)
>> shows that the non ASCII char is introduced and ultimately introduces a `fail' that break
>> the documentation composition.
>>
>> Please find in attachment an expurged material that reproduces the bug.
>>
>> As second thought, I will not be surprised that in fact GAPDoc does not fully support the Jr part
>> of BibTeX's names as described in section 18 in the document entitle BibTeXing by Oren Patashnik
>> (aka `btxdoc.pdf').
> 
> Dear Jérome, 
> I have contacted the upstream authors, and they told me that this was not a bug
> in GAPDoc but in GUAVA, for not following the GAPDoc documentation, and that this
> problem will be fixed in next release of the GUAVA package.  So I reassign this
> bug to gap-guava.

I have nothing against the reassignment.
I hope it will not become endless: the main issue here is that GAPDoc does not
fully support BibTeX features: it sounds that the issue is exported.
Whatever, let wait for the next GUAVA.

Cheers,
Jerome

> 
> Cheers,
> 
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