GNU bug report logs - #36252
26.1; bibtex-generate-autokey does not use use date field

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Reported by: Ryan Kavanagh <rak <at> debian.org>

Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 20:24:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 26.1

Done: "Roland Winkler" <winkler <at> gnu.org>

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Ryan Kavanagh <rak <at> debian.org>
Cc: 36252 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36252: 26.1; bibtex-generate-autokey does not use use date field
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2019 16:52:07 +0200

Ryan Kavanagh <rak <at> debian.org> writes:

> 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 makes sense to me, but I'm not a bibtex user.  Anybody else that
can take a look at this patch?

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