Cannot resolve '\textendash', etc. when displaying article title

[psychelzh]

JabRef version 4.0 on Windows 10

See the following screenshot. \textendash cannot be resolved to the corresponding character.

[psychelzh]

Maybe other LaTex Text commands (encoding) are not resolved, either.

[lenhard]

For the record, this is not a problem in latex2unicode which translates the \textendash correctly. I guess this s a part of the html translation for the preview.

[psychelzh]

Yeah, you are right.

[lenhard]

I added the command to the conversion table. Could you please check out the version here: http://builds.jabref.org/textendash/ and let me know if the problem is resolved at your end?

[psychelzh]

Thank you, and I will test it tomorrow, because it is too late here in China.

[psychelzh]

Great, it works! Here is a screenshot. BTW, will all the encoding symbols be supported now?

[lenhard]

It's a bit difficult to say what all means here, since we don't really know what is missing.

Could you perhaps provide a list of encoding symbols that you want, but which do not work at the moment? With such a list, it should be no big hassle to complete the implementation.

[psychelzh]

No more wrongly encoding ones encountered, only some supported ones, say \textquotedblleft and \textquotedblright. I guess there could be a complete list in the LaTex documentation, e.g. one that I had found and posted above, but would it be a huge work?

[lenhard]

We're trying to minimize developer time consumption :) Hence, it would be cool if someone just checks which of the things listed on the page you you linked are missing.

But overall there are not too many symbols, so this should be doable.

[psychelzh]

It would be so kind of you if they are all supported! 👍

[tobiasdiez]

@psychelzh If you find symbols that are not working, then you can help us and provide a list in the form
{"unicode character", "html macro", "$\\latex command$"},
similar to https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/pull/3308/files#diff-6b1e5b042a6b79fceea700ac0592dbd0R297. Thanks!

[psychelzh]

No problem, I am very glad to do this! 😄