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From: William Denton <wtd@pobox.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Citations: strip braces {} in titles in bibliographies in basic style?
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 20:42:46 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2312121941340.54828@shell3.miskatonic.org> (raw)

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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},
   author = {van Dongen, M.R.C.},
   date = {2012},
   location = {Berlin},
   publisher = {Springer},
   doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-23816-1},
   isbn = {9783642238161}
}

@book{lispandc,
   title = {Lisp and {C}},
   author = {Example, Example},
   publisher = {Example},
   date = {2023}
}

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

We also have an Org file (where "/n" means no citation but the work 
stills goes in the bibliography; note that the basic citation style is set):

# ---------
#+bibliography: Basic.bib
#+cite_export: basic

[cite/n:@friends] [cite/n:@lispandc]

#+print_bibliography:
# ----------

Exporting to text (C-c C-e t A) gives this:

# ----------
Example, Example (2023). /Lisp and {C}/, Example.

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.

The basic style is very basic and doesn't do anything fancy in 
bibliographies---just some italics on titles, which it's showing in the text 
export with slashes, and does nicely in the others---but I wonder if it should 
remove the braces.  They are used to preserve case in titles, but the basic 
exporter doesn't change case.  Passing the braces through means people will have 
to edit them out in every basic export.


Bill

¹ https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/support/faq/#why-the-double-braces

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next             reply	other threads:[~2023-12-13  1:43 UTC|newest]

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