GNU bug report logs - #44976
28.0.50; bibtex.el does not consider biblatex field name aliases

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Reported by: leonard <at> lausen.nl

Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 00:54:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 28.0.50

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
To: Roland Winkler <winkler <at> gnu.org>, leonard <at> lausen.nl
Cc: 44976 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44976: 28.0.50; bibtex.el does not consider biblatex field
 name aliases
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2020 16:38:26 +0000

severity 44976 wishlist
quit

leonard <at> lausen.nl 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,

-- 
Basil
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