BibTeX entries containing an ampersand (&) should be handled specifically: the ampersand needs to be escaped (\&) to avoid the LaTeX document to fail compiling. Example: @Book{bahi07, Author = {Bahi, J. and Contassot-Vivier, S. and Couturier, R.}, Publisher = {Chapman & Hall/CRC}, Series = {Numerical Analysis & Scientific Computating}, Title = {Parallel Iterative Algorithms: from sequential to grid computing}, Volume = {1}, Year = {2007}, } My compilation fails with the following message: ! Misplaced alignment tab character &. l.6 ...ing}, volume~1 of {\em Numerical Analysis & Scientific Computating}. ! Misplaced alignment tab character &. l.7 \newblock Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2007. When escaping the & in "Publisher" and "Series", everything works fine. But if I reload the modified .bib file with xfbib and save it again, the '\&' characters are replaced with '&', and I have to do this modification manually again. Tested with xfbib 0.0.2 and latest SVN. I don't know much about the internals of xfbib (and I don't have time right now to investigate about it), so I'm currently unable to write a patch.
I dont have time to look at this right now. But I'll reassign it to my codeveloper and he'll look into it.
Please try the latest trunk. I have made significant updates and your bug should be resolved.
Has this fix been released? I'm encountering I suspect a similar bug related to accents in bibtex, like entries containing {{{\'{e}}}}. I see that there was a 0.1.0 release planned: Set release version to 0.1.0 http://git.xfce.org/apps/xfbib/commit/?id=ccf0ec60f4312f419e3af12d4717a500192f538b But I can't find a source archive...
This project has been archived, so we are closing related bugs.