[Tex/LaTex] URLs with % signs in them in bibtex files: how to get corect links after compiling with biber/biblatex

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I have a bibtex file entry with a URL field so:

url = {{http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0025-570X\%28198912\%2962\%3A5\%3C291\%3AHRATQS\%3E2.0.CO\%3B2-8}}

where I have manually escaped each percent sign with a backslash.

It compiles correctly with biblatex/biber but the resulting hyperlink in the document still has the escaped percentage sign and does not link correctly to the website.

Is there a workaround for this problem?

Thank you.

Best Answer

You don't have to escape the %, the url field is printed verbatim, so there won't be a problem. Hence, just remove the backslashes before the percentage signs.

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[Tex/LaTex] How to get biber to pass fields into the .bbl file

Good question. What you really need here is to be able to modify the biblatex internal data model which isn't currently possible directly. In fact, this is possible in biber but currently has no biblatex interface. This is planned for biblatex version 2.x.

However, you can work around this by re-mapping the "mrnumber" field into a supported biblatex field like "usera" and then using "usera" in your .bbx as the fieldname.

Put this in your biber.conf to perform the remapping (see biber manual, section 3.1.1):

<map>
  <bibtex>
    BMAP_OVERWRITE 1
    <globalfield>
      MRNUMBER USERA
    </globalfield>
  </bibtex>
</map>

By the way, your .bib file is still a bibtex data file - biber has no data format of its own (yet ...). There is a distinction between bibtex the program and bibtex the data format. As of biblatex 2.x, bibtex the program will probably no longer be supported but the bibtex data format always will be.

EDIT: The config file format will change in Biber 0.9.8 because the current format is too restrictive. Mapping will be less confusing. Here is the same solution in the new format:

<config>
  <sourcemap>
    <maps datatype="bibtex" map_overwrite="1">
      <map>
        <map_step map_field_source="MRNUMBER" map_field_target="USERA"/>
      </map>
    </maps>
  </sourcemap>
</config>

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