Subject: bug#20073: 24.4; "Title of the technical report (BibTeX converts it to lowercase)"

From: Emanuel Berg <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 19:49:10 +0100

If point is at the title field of a BibTeX techreport
entry, the echo area says "Title of the technical
report (BibTeX converts it to lowercase)". (It does so
even if the title is in lowercase.) What does this
refer to? Is it /usr/bin/bibtex.original that does
that? For example with /usr/bin/biber, there is no
such transformation and the PDF end result (e.g., with
xelatex) is true to the case sensitiveness of the .bib
file.

In GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
 of 2014-10-25 on trouble, modified by Debian
System Description:	Debian GNU/Linux testing (jessie)

Configured using:
 `configure --build x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr
 --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib
 --localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info
 --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes
 --enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.4/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.4/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
 --build x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr
 --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib
 --localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info
 --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes
 --enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.4/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.4/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
 --with-x=no --without-gconf --without-gsettings
 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat
 -Werror=format-security -Wall'
 CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro'

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Messages

Minor modes in effect:
  erc-list-mode: t
  erc-menu-mode: t
  erc-autojoin-mode: t
  erc-ring-mode: t
  erc-networks-mode: t
  erc-pcomplete-mode: t
  erc-track-mode: t
  erc-match-mode: t
  erc-button-mode: t
  erc-fill-mode: t
  erc-stamp-mode: t
  erc-netsplit-mode: t
  erc-irccontrols-mode: t
  erc-noncommands-mode: t
  erc-move-to-prompt-mode: t
  erc-readonly-mode: t
  erc-scrolltobottom-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  buffer-read-only: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
k ESC k ESC k ESC k ESC k ESC k ESC k ESC k ESC k ESC 
k ESC k ESC i ESC i ESC i ESC i ESC i ESC i ESC i ESC 
i ESC i ESC i ESC i ESC i ESC i ESC i ESC i ESC i ESC 
i ESC i ESC i ESC i ESC i ESC i ESC i ESC i ESC i ESC 
i ESC i ESC i ESC i ESC i ESC i ESC i ESC i ESC i ESC 
i ESC i ESC i ESC i ESC i ESC i ESC i ESC i ESC i ESC 
i ESC i C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-p C-p C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f 
C-f C-f C-j t C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-j 
b TAB TAB TAB TAB TAB C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-j r b TAB 
TAB C-a C-@ C-e ESC w RET C-y ESC b ESC b C-a C-@ C-e 
C-x C-l C-a TAB Ď Ď TAB Ď Ď TAB TAB C-a C-k C-k C-x 
C-s C-p TAB Ď TAB Ď Ď TAB ē m C-p C-@ C-e ESC w ESC 
x r e p o r t - b u g RET

Recent messages:
Title of the technical report (BibTeX converts it to lowercase)
Mark set [2 times]
Mark activated
Sponsoring institution of the report
Title of the technical report (BibTeX converts it to lowercase) [3 times]
Saving file /home/incal/public_html/hs-linux/docs/report/report.bib...
Wrote /home/incal/public_html/hs-linux/docs/report/report.bib
Sponsoring institution of the report [2 times]
Title of the technical report (BibTeX converts it to lowercase)
Mark set

Load-path shadows:
/usr/share/emacs/24.4/site-lisp/debian-startup hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup
/usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/flim/hex-util hides /usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/hex-util
/usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/flim/md4 hides /usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/md4
/usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/flyspell hides /usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/textmodes/flyspell
/usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/ispell hides /usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/textmodes/ispell
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/rst hides /usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/textmodes/rst
/usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/flim/sasl-cram hides /usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/net/sasl-cram
/usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/flim/sasl-digest hides /usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/net/sasl-digest
/usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/flim/ntlm hides /usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/net/ntlm
/usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/flim/sasl-ntlm hides /usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/net/sasl-ntlm
/usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/flim/hmac-md5 hides /usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/net/hmac-md5
/usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/flim/sasl hides /usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/net/sasl
/usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/flim/hmac-def hides /usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/net/hmac-def
/usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/latex-cjk-thai/thai-word hides /usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/language/thai-word
/usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/faces hides ~/.emacs.d/emacs-init/faces
/usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/textmodes/fill hides ~/.emacs.d/emacs-init/fill
/usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/window hides ~/.emacs.d/emacs-init/window
/usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/obsolete/spell hides ~/.emacs.d/emacs-init/spell
/usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/help hides ~/.emacs.d/emacs-init/help
/usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/abbrev hides ~/.emacs.d/emacs-init/abbrev
/usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/misc hides ~/.emacs.d/emacs-init/misc
/usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/align hides ~/.emacs.d/emacs-init/align
/usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/server hides ~/.emacs.d/emacs-init/gnus/server

Features:
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erc-button wid-edit erc-fill erc-stamp erc-netsplit
erc-goodies erc erc-backend erc-compat thingatpt pp
package epg-config edit dired-my files-my dired buc
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trampver shell pcomplete comint regexp-opt ansi-color
ring format-spec advice help-fns paren debian-el
debian-el-loaddefs w3m-load tooltip electric uniquify
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nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files
text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env
code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable
backquote make-network-process dbusbind gfilenotify
multi-tty emacs)

Memory information:
((conses 16 318948 26897)
 (symbols 48 40017 0)
 (miscs 40 103 609)
 (strings 32 85743 7443)
 (string-bytes 1 2582132)
 (vectors 16 38570)
 (vector-slots 8 1387173 211385)
 (floats 8 307 449)
 (intervals 56 2846 232)
 (buffers 960 23)
 (heap 1024 52970 1335))

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