Package: auctex;
Reported by: Andrew Francis Swann <swann <at> math.au.dk>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 15:54:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Merged with 38761
Found in version 26.3
Done: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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From: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org> To: Andrew Francis Swann <swann <at> math.au.dk> Cc: 38762 <at> debbugs.gnu.org Subject: bug#38762: 26.3; reftex-citation-format doesn't know biblatex fields Date: Mon, 06 May 2024 22:25:50 +0200
Andrew Francis Swann <swann <at> math.au.dk> writes:
> For local citations outside a tex file I have
>
> (setq reftex-cite-format
> "[%4a, \\textit{%t}, %b %e, %u, %r %h %j \\textbf{%v} (%y), %p %<]" )
>
> but when the database file is in biblatex format, the journal name is
> not in the field journal, accessed by %j, but rather in the field
> journaltitle, that is not detected. E.g. the entry
>
> @Article{Abels:slice,
> author = {Abels, H.},
> title = {Parallelizability of proper actions, global
> {$K$}-slices and maximal compact subgroups},
> journaltitle = {Math. Ann.},
> year = 1974,
> volume = 212,
> pages = {1--19}
> }
>
> produces the local citation
>
> [Abels, \textit{Parallelizability of proper actions, global
> {$K$}-slices and maximal compact subgroups}, \textbf{212} (1974),
> 1--19]
>
> with no journal name.
(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)
Can you please eval this function and try it again?
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(defun reftex-format-citation (entry format)
"Format a citation from the info in the BibTeX ENTRY according to FORMAT."
(unless (stringp format) (setq format "\\cite{%l}"))
(if (and reftex-comment-citations
(string-match "%l" reftex-cite-comment-format))
(error "reftex-cite-comment-format contains invalid %%l"))
(while (string-match
"\\(\\`\\|[^%]\\)\\(\\(%\\([0-9]*\\)\\([a-zA-Z]\\)\\)[.,;: ]*\\)"
format)
(let ((n (string-to-number (match-string 4 format)))
(l (string-to-char (match-string 5 format)))
rpl b e)
(save-match-data
(setq rpl
(cond
((= l ?l) (concat
(reftex-get-bib-field "&key" entry)
(if reftex-comment-citations
reftex-cite-comment-format
"")))
((= l ?a) (reftex-format-names
(reftex-get-bib-names "author" entry)
(or n 2)))
((= l ?A) (car (reftex-get-bib-names "author" entry)))
((= l ?b) (reftex-get-bib-field "booktitle" entry "in: %s"))
((= l ?B) (reftex-abbreviate-title
(reftex-get-bib-field "booktitle" entry "in: %s")))
((= l ?c) (reftex-get-bib-field "chapter" entry))
((= l ?d) (reftex-get-bib-field "edition" entry))
((= l ?e) (reftex-format-names
(reftex-get-bib-names "editor" entry)
(or n 2)))
((= l ?E) (car (reftex-get-bib-names "editor" entry)))
((= l ?h) (reftex-get-bib-field "howpublished" entry))
((= l ?i) (reftex-get-bib-field "institution" entry))
((= l ?j) (cond ((not (string-empty-p
(reftex-get-bib-field "journal" entry)))
(reftex-get-bib-field "journal" entry))
((not (string-empty-p
(reftex-get-bib-field "journaltitle" entry)))
(reftex-get-bib-field "journaltitle" entry))
(t "")))
((= l ?k) (reftex-get-bib-field "key" entry))
((= l ?m) (reftex-get-bib-field "month" entry))
((= l ?n) (reftex-get-bib-field "number" entry))
((= l ?N) (reftex-get-bib-field "note" entry))
((= l ?o) (reftex-get-bib-field "organization" entry))
((= l ?p) (reftex-get-bib-field "pages" entry))
((= l ?P) (car (split-string
(reftex-get-bib-field "pages" entry)
"[- .]+")))
((= l ?s) (reftex-get-bib-field "school" entry))
((= l ?u) (reftex-get-bib-field "publisher" entry))
((= l ?U) (reftex-get-bib-field "url" entry))
((= l ?r) (reftex-get-bib-field "address" entry))
((= l ?t) (reftex-get-bib-field "title" entry))
((= l ?T) (reftex-abbreviate-title
(reftex-get-bib-field "title" entry)))
((= l ?v) (reftex-get-bib-field "volume" entry))
((= l ?y) (reftex-get-bib-field "year" entry)))))
(if (string= rpl "")
(setq b (match-beginning 2) e (match-end 2))
(setq b (match-beginning 3) e (match-end 3)))
(setq format (concat (substring format 0 b) rpl (substring format e)))))
(while (string-match "%%" format)
(setq format (replace-match "%" t t format)))
(while (string-match "[ ,.;:]*%<" format)
(setq format (replace-match "" t t format)))
format)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
This is the corresponding diff:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/reftex-cite.el b/lisp/textmodes/reftex-cite.el
index 34f40ba689f..5d7c93a4717 100644
--- a/lisp/textmodes/reftex-cite.el
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/reftex-cite.el
@@ -1048,7 +1048,13 @@ reftex-format-citation
((= l ?E) (car (reftex-get-bib-names "editor" entry)))
((= l ?h) (reftex-get-bib-field "howpublished" entry))
((= l ?i) (reftex-get-bib-field "institution" entry))
- ((= l ?j) (reftex-get-bib-field "journal" entry))
+ ((= l ?j) (cond ((not (string-empty-p
+ (reftex-get-bib-field "journal" entry)))
+ (reftex-get-bib-field "journal" entry))
+ ((not (string-empty-p
+ (reftex-get-bib-field "journaltitle" entry)))
+ (reftex-get-bib-field "journaltitle" entry))
+ (t "")))
((= l ?k) (reftex-get-bib-field "key" entry))
((= l ?m) (reftex-get-bib-field "month" entry))
((= l ?n) (reftex-get-bib-field "number" entry))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
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