Subject: Re: bug#44976: 28.0.50; bibtex.el does not consider biblatex field name aliases

From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2020 16:38:26 +0000

severity 44976 wishlist
quit

[email-masked] writes:

> bibtex.el does not consider biblatex aliases correctly. The biblatex package
> documentation specifies in Section 2.2.5 beginning on page 32 a series of
> Field Aliases.
>
> These include for example the alias "journal" for "journaltitle" which helps
> biblatex to preserve backwards compatibility with bibtex. This causes bibtex.el
> to throw error messages of the style "Mandatory field `%s' is missing" despite
> the alias field being present.

I, for one, would be in favour of supporting these aliases.

Roland, are there any reasons not to?

Thanks,

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Basil