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26.1; bibtex-generate-autokey does not use use date field

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Ryan Kavanagh <rak <at> debian.org>
Subject: bug#36252: closed (Re: bug#36252: 26.1; bibtex-generate-autokey
 does not use use date field)
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 15:05:01 +0000

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Your bug report

#36252: 26.1; bibtex-generate-autokey does not use use date field

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 36252 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: "Roland Winkler" <winkler <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>,
 Patrick M. Niedzielski <patrick <at> pniedzielski.net>,
 Ryan Kavanagh <rak <at> debian.org>, 36252-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36252: 26.1; bibtex-generate-autokey does not use use date
 field
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 09:04:24 -0600

On Mon Dec 7 2020 Roland Winkler wrote:
> A few days ago I installed in master a related patch that I had
> lying around for some time.  I believe it addresses the question
> of searching the date and year field in a cleaner way by passing a
> list of field names to bibtex-text-in-field.  But I didn't know
> the new iso8601 library.  So that's the main purpose of the new
> patch attached below.

Installed as commit 4a700a2f79d5cca64602b7cad30d6485cfe0e449.

Closing.

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From: Ryan Kavanagh <rak <at> debian.org>
To: submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: 26.1; bibtex-generate-autokey does not use use date field
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 16:23:30 -0400

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Package: emacs
Version: 26.1
Tags: patch

The bibtex.el package will automatically generate a key for a BibTeX
entry when required. To do so, it extracts the year from the 'year'
field. Instead of the 'year' field, the biblatex dialect uses the 'date'
field to record the publication date. The bibtex-generate-autokey
function should fallback to the date field when the year field is
absent. This requires a bit of care because the 'date' field can contain
an arbitrary date satisfying the "ISO8601-2 Extended Format
Specification Level 1". Fortunately, a relatively simple regex can
extract the year from all of the examples listed in the biblatex
manual[0].

Please see attached for a patch adding support for the 'date' field.

[0] http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/CTAN/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/doc/biblatex.pdf

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