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bug#44976: 28.0.50; bibtex.el does not consider biblatex field name alia
From: |
Basil L. Contovounesios |
Subject: |
bug#44976: 28.0.50; bibtex.el does not consider biblatex field name aliases |
Date: |
Tue, 01 Dec 2020 16:38:26 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
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leonard@lausen.nl writes:
> bibtex.el does not consider biblatex aliases correctly. The biblatex package
> documentation specifies in Section 2.2.5 beginning on page 32 a series of
> Field Aliases.
>
> These include for example the alias "journal" for "journaltitle" which helps
> biblatex to preserve backwards compatibility with bibtex. This causes
> bibtex.el
> to throw error messages of the style "Mandatory field `%s' is missing" despite
> the alias field being present.
I, for one, would be in favour of supporting these aliases.
Roland, are there any reasons not to?
Thanks,
--
Basil
- bug#44976: 28.0.50; bibtex.el does not consider biblatex field name aliases,
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