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24.3; bibtex-clean-entry and date fields in biblatex

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Message #36 received at 21099 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Roland Winkler" <winkler <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Brian Zbriger <brian.zbr <at> gmail.com>, 21099 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Gustavo Barros <gusbrs.2016 <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#21099: 24.3; bibtex-clean-entry and date fields in biblatex
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2019 14:48:00 -0500

On Fri Aug 2 2019 Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Gustavo Barros <gusbrs.2016 <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > So, with defaults, from an original entry like:
> >
> >    @Article{Author2019c,
> >      author       = {Author},
> >      title        = {Title},
> >      journaltitle = {Journal title},
> >      date         = {2019},
> >    }
> >
> > the result of `bibtex-clean-entry` is:
> >
> >    @Article{Author2019c,
> >      author       = {Author},
> >      title        = {Title},
> >      journaltitle = {Journal title},
> >      date         = 2019,
> >    }
> 
> Right; this is what the bug report claims makes latexmk and biber stop
> working, but you say later that this isn't the case?  Could there be
> versions of these programs that choke on brace-less entries?

If for whatever reason you do not want to remove the braces from a
numeric field such as `date', you can achieve this by removing the
element numerical-fields from the user variable bibtex-entry-format.

(The element numerical-fields has been part of the default value of
bibtex-entry-format for longer than I have been the maintainer of
bibtex.el (since ~1999).)

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