If a link in an url contains ~
, Mendeley changes it to $\sim$
and hyperref
links just don't work. I use pdflatex and biblatex.
Is there a quick way how to change manually the link in Mendeley to fix this? Editing manually the library.bib
file exported by Mendeley is not an option for me.
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Related: tex.stackexchange.com/q/10858/17423 – Sean Allred May 31 '15 at 12:14
This is definitely something you need to address on a Mendeley level, the software needs to make sure it exports correct .bib
files, and http://example.edu/$\sim$elk/bronto.pdf
is hardly correct. URLs should be exported verbose without any modifications.
But with Biber's sourcemapping we can try and save your file, let's say you have
@online{bronto,
author = {Anne Elk},
title = {Towards a Unified Theory on Brontosauruses},
date = {1972-11-16},
url = {http://example.edu/$\sim$elk/bronto.pdf},
urldate = {2015-09-07},
}
Then
\DeclareSourcemap{
\maps{
\map{
\step[fieldsource=url,
match=\regexp{\$\\sim\$},
replace=\regexp{\~}]
}
}
}
will turn that $\sim$
back into a ~
.
MWE
\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@online{bronto,
author = {Anne Elk},
title = {Towards a Unified Theory on Brontosauruses},
date = {1972-11-16},
url = {http://example.edu/$\sim$elk/bronto.pdf},
urldate = {2015-09-07},
}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\DeclareSourcemap{
\maps{
\map{
\step[fieldsource=url,
match=\regexp{\$\\sim\$},
replace=\regexp{\~}]
}
}
}
\begin{document}
\nocite{bronto}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
So, one simply has to replace in the url in Mendeley ~
with \textasciitilde{}
. Then it works. Note that I have the option "do not escape latex special characters" in Mendeley.
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4Actually, you should just be able to load the
hyperref
package in your document. If there's a way to just make Mendeley not do anything with~
, that'd be best. – Sean Allred May 31 '15 at 12:15 -
1It is possible to tell Mendeley not to do anything with ALL special characters in all fields. But not separately in the
url
field. That's the problem. – wondering May 31 '15 at 12:47 -
3And people wonder why I prefer to write my documents straight-up… It sucks when the tool is your problem. – Sean Allred May 31 '15 at 12:48
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@SeanAllred I got enchanted by sever features of Mendeley that I really like. That might have been a mistake. – wondering May 31 '15 at 13:31
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1What other special characters need special treatment? If it's just generic Unicode stuff, use
biber
/biblatex
. – Sean Allred May 31 '15 at 13:56