GNU bug report logs - #21099
24.3; bibtex-clean-entry and date fields in biblatex

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Brian Zbriger <brian.zbr <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 03:17:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Found in version 24.3

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Gustavo Barros <gusbrs.2016 <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Brian Zbriger <brian.zbr <at> gmail.com>, 21099 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Roland Winkler <winkler <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#21099: 24.3; bibtex-clean-entry and date fields in biblatex
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 17:52:55 -0300

On Fri, Aug 02 2019, Gustavo Barros wrote:

>
> Not that I’m aware of.  biblatex tries hard to keep backward 
> compatibility,
> especially with the BibTeX entry *format*.  So I’d be surprised if 
> that was
> the case.
>

Just to be sure I’m not misunderstood here.  I’m not arguing that an 
issue could never occur.  Only that expected behavior is to work well 
with numeric fields without braces or quotes.  And, thus, current 
defaults of bibtex-mode are quite sane in this respect.

Best regards,
Gustavo Barros.
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