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From: Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org>
To: Leo Stein <leo.stein@gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] BibTeX-mode: add eprint field as potential source for entry's URL
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 14:38:38 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iks0jycx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE56pjFh+v2KY=YSadr3rmTO52Q-Gh=CJLcnDftf=LaBbOWa+g@mail.gmail.com> (Leo Stein's message of "Mon, 2 Dec 2024 11:39:17 -0600")

On Mon, Dec 02 2024, Leo Stein wrote:
> > All this goes beyond old-fashioned BibTeX.  But the documentation
> > for biblatex (current: version 3.20 from CTAN) says in Sec. 3.14.7
> > "Electronic Publishing Information" how the field "eprint" should be
> > used in combination with a field "eprinttype" to identify an
> > electronically published document.
>
> This is independent of bibtex vs. biber+biblatex.

The documentation for these programs defines the defaults implemented
via user variables of bibtex-mode.  You are free to customize these
variables.

> Physicists, mathematicians, and computer scientists use LaTeX and thus
> bibtex more so than other specialties.

It is beyond me to comment.

> Of course I've customized the variable for myself. But it took me
> years before I realized "Hey, wait a minute, why can't I click on the
> arXiv number?", and then dug through the mode docs to discover that
> it's possible to customize this.

We are talking here about Emacs where 10 users may strongly advocate 20
different "most obvious" ways to change the behavior of Emacs.



      reply	other threads:[~2024-12-03 20:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-01 19:05 [PATCH] BibTeX-mode: add eprint field as potential source for entry's URL Leo Stein
2024-12-01 19:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-02 13:08   ` Roland Winkler
2024-12-02 13:34     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-02 17:39       ` Leo Stein
2024-12-03 20:38         ` Roland Winkler [this message]

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