From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
To: "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, 20073@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20073: 24.4; "Title of the technical report (BibTeX converts it to lowercase)"
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 18:11:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dmcdyy0.fsf@tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44132.56642.501212.24651@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (Roland Winkler's message of "Fri, 12 Mar 2021 12:01:08 -0600")
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"Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org> writes:
> On Thu Mar 11 2021 Basil L. Contovounesios wrote:
>> Echo area reports "Title of the technical report (BibTeX converts
>> it to lowercase)".
> [snip]
>> These help strings have been with bibtex.el since the early 90s,
>> but I'm not sure what they refer to. Maybe Roland (CCed) does?
>
> Yes, these help strings refer to the fact that old-fashioned BibTeX
> converts all words appearing in a title string to lowercase (with a
> few exceptions). This applies not only to technical reports, but
> also, say, to the title of journal articles. Also, this is current
> behavior of BibTeX with a number of BibTeX style files I am using
> for my own work. (Title words enclosed by braces are not converted
> to lowercase, that's what bibtex-field-braces-alist is intended for.)
Makes sense, thanks for enlightening us.
> All this is original old-fashioned BibTeX. I do not know much about
> its modern successor biblatex (beyond what people tell me). But it
> seems to me it would make sense that bibtex-mode's help does not
> talk about conversion to lowercase if one is using biblatex.
These strings are present only in bibtex-BibTeX-entry-alist, not
bibtex-biblatex-entry-alist, so I think we're fine.
--
Basil
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-10 18:49 bug#20073: 24.4; "Title of the technical report (BibTeX converts it to lowercase)" Emanuel Berg
2019-08-02 12:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-21 12:02 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-12-31 10:26 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-03-11 22:20 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-03-12 18:01 ` Roland Winkler
2021-03-12 18:11 ` Basil L. Contovounesios [this message]
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