bug#69266: 30.0.50; bibtex-parse-entry misreads escaped \}

[Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org>]

On Mon, Feb 26 2024, Roland Winkler wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26 2024, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
>> Also, talking about biblatex, I do note that
>> https://ctan.org/pkg/biblatex has a more detailed description of the
>> syntax with notable differences from bibtex. For example, biblatex
>> allows "crossref" field that defines entry inheritance;
>
> "crossref" fields are already part of BibTeX.  Do you say biblatex
> "crossref" fields go beyond what BibTeX "crossref" fields offer?
> Please be specific in a new bug report.
>
>> field aliases;
>
> Agreed, field aliases including customizable field aliases could be
> useful.  Aliases for entries would probably be yet more useful.
> If I remember correctly, biblatex defines a bunch of entry types that
> are really just aliases for other entries.
>
>> and special key-value format like
>> AUTHOR = {given=Hans, family=Harman and given=Simon, prefix=de,
>> family=Beumont}
>
> If you submit a separate bug report, please include a description what a
> meaningful support could look like.  As far as I know, emacs does not
> provide a good general scheme for filling a set of fields like "given",
> "prefix", and "family".  I am not sure the above justifies to come up
> with a sophisticated scheme for that.

The discussion under the original bug report has drifted away from the
original topic.  Part of the discussion has been addressed with
commit b26418694e8.  For remaining issues please submit a separate
specific bug report.

Closing.