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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: William Denton <wtd@pobox.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Citations: strip braces {} in titles in bibliographies in basic style?
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2023 10:49:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874jgmxtqy.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2312121941340.54828@shell3.miskatonic.org>

William Denton <wtd@pobox.com> writes:

> Let's say we have a file Basic.bib, like so, with one or two pairs of braces 
> around words that need special case preservation:
>
> @book{friends,
>    title = {{LaTeX} and Friends},
> ...
> Either one or two braces works and could well be used.  The Zotero extension 
> Better Bibtex has a FAQ explaining why it uses two by default: "because the 
> Bib(La)TeX case protection rules are incredibly convoluted."¹
> ...
> van Dongen, M.R.C. (2012). /{{LaTeX}} and Friends/, Springer.
>
> The braces are there.  The're also visible in the HTML and ODT exports.  In 
> LaTeX, in this example, they're exported but ultimately invisible because of how 
> LaTeX handles "\textit{Lisp and {C}}".
>
> Should they be stripped?  I suggest they should.

This is a more difficult problem actually, because Bibtex allows more
than just curly braces - see https://www.bibtex.org/SpecialSymbols/ and
https://www.bibtex.org/Format/.

I tried to ask for bibtex.el to handle the accurate parsing in
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=57712, but it looks like
it is not of interest upstream. So, we may have to implement a Bibtex
entry parser according to the spec.

Patches welcome!

-- 
Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
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  reply	other threads:[~2023-12-13 10:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-13  1:42 Citations: strip braces {} in titles in bibliographies in basic style? William Denton
2023-12-13 10:49 ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2023-12-13 17:12   ` William Denton
2024-05-04 19:19   ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-05-06 17:02     ` William Denton

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