The bib module has a problem with processing my bibliography files.
Here is my amateur diagnosis. There are hundreds of entries in my
bibliography file in which the % character is part of the url. When
the bib module comes across a %, it ignores everything else on the
line, including the closing brace, }. Bad things follow.
Here's some evidence for my diagnosis. I tried editing the urls by
replacing "%" with "\%". When the urls are written that way,
everything works smoothly. But that is an undesirable solution. Among
other things, it renders the url inaccurate.
So, I have two questions:
1. Is that diagnosis correct?
2. What can I do about it (short of deleting the url field)?
Thank you!
Here is a minimal example (1 and 2) followed by the log entry (3).
1. The test document
\usemodule[bib]
\setupbibtex[database=biblio]
\setuppublications[alternative=apa]
\starttext
Adamson wrote an important paper \cite[Adamson:1987yq].
\completepublications
\stoptext
2. The BibTeX entry
%% Saved with string encoding Unicode (UTF-8)
@article{Adamson:1987yq,
Author = {Adamson, J. S. A.},
Date-Added = {2007-07-04 08:47:37 -0700},
Date-Modified = {2007-07-04 09:11:17 -0700},
Endnotereftype = {Journal Article},
Journal = {The Historical Journal},
Note = {0018-246X
Article type: Full Length Article / Full publication date: Sep., 1987
(198709). / Copyright 1987 Cambridge University Press},
Number = {3},
Pages = {567-602},
Title = {The English Nobility and the Projected Settlement of 1647},
Url = {http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0018-246X%28198709%2930%3A3%
3C567%3ATENATP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X},
Volume = {30},
Year = {1987}}
3. The relevant part of the log
system : module bib loaded
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/bib/t-bib.tex
\etallimitcounter=\count214
\etaldisplaycounter=\count215
\todocounter=\count216
\bibitemcounter=\count217
\bibitemwanted=\count218
publications : loading formatting style from bibl-apa
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/bib/bibl-apa.tex))
publications : loading formatting style from bibl-apa
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/bib/bibl-apa.tex)
(./URLinBib.tuo) (./URLinBib.tuo) (./URLinBib.tuo) (./URLinBib.tuo)
(./URLinBib.tuo) (./URLinBib.tuo) (./URLinBib.tuo) (./URLinBib.tuo)
(./URLinBib.tuo) (./URLinBib.tuo)
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/sort-def.tex)
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/sort-lan.tex)
(./URLinBib.tuo) (./URLinBib.tuo)
publications : loading database from URLinBib.bbl
(./URLinBib.bbl)
Runaway argument?
k=Adamson:1987yq,t=article, a={{Adamson}},y=1987, u={http://links.jst
\ETC.
! File ended while scanning use of \dostartpublication.
<inserted text>
\par
<to be read again>
\relax
\dodoreadfile ...\preprocesssuffix \or \fi \relax
\the
\everyafterreadfile
\doateverystarttext ->\the \everystarttext
\global \everystarttext
\emptytoks
\starttext ->\doatever
