BibTool Manual Limitations Bugs and Problems

Bugs and Problems

Problems currently known are the following ones. They are not considered to be bugs.

• The referencing feature of BibTeX is not supported. \cite macros can be contained in fields (e.g. notes). Such things can be confused.
• The memory management uses dynamic memory. This memory is reused but not returned to the operating system. Thus BibTool may run out of memory even if a more elaborated memory management may find free memory. This is a design decision and I don't think that I will change it.
• The TeX reading apparatus is only imitated to a certain limit. But this should be enough for most applications to produce satisfactory results.
• In several modules ASCII encoding is assumed. I do not know to which extend this influences the functionality since I don't have access to non-ASCII machines.
• Macro expansion uses a dynamic array which can turn out to be too short. This will be corrected as soon as I have an example where this bug shows up.

The distribution of BibTool also contains a file named ToDo. If you are interested in more detailed descriptions of possible problems, limitations, and ideas for improvements in further releases then you can have a look at the contents of this file.

BibTool Manual Limitations Bugs and Problems