bug#10254: 24.0.92; Local variable bibtex-dialect has no effect

["Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org>]

On Wed Jan 11 2012 Uwe Siart wrote:
> It is IMO not a rare case that one has to use both biblatex and
> bibstyles. If I need to implement a certain requirement for the
> bibliography that can only be solved by biblatex (e.g. a particular
> sorting scheme) I will need to create a bibfile for biblatex. On the
> other hand I can not simply throw away all the achivements of classical
> bibstyle. Moreover, if a publisher provides a template bibstyle I have
> to use it. No way to convince a publisher to switch his workflow to
> biblatex immediately.
> 
> So I am in a situation where I have to manage both bibtex dialects at
> the same time in different files.

OK, this is what I was expecting when you said you do need to handle
different BibTeX files with different BibTeX dialects.

I'll sent here a patch and leave it to the Emacs pretest
administrators whether they want to install it now or later.
In any case, you can then install it locally.

Roland