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[ENHANCEMENT] Support BibLaTeX #460

Open frederik-elwert opened 4 years ago

frederik-elwert commented 4 years ago

Description

Currently, Zettlr supports BibTeX as a bibliography file format, but not the extended BibLaTeX format. It would be nice if BibLaTeX files would be supported as well, as the format supports many important fields like DOI in a predictable manner.

Proposed Changes

I mainly noticed this as my existing articles all use BibLaTeX (as exported from Zotero using the BetterBibTeX plugin) as their database format. BibLaTeX uses a structured date field instead of the various year, month and day fields of BibTeX. Thus, all my references had "o.J."/"n.d." in the preview, since the parser did not recognize the field.

Additional Information

I understand that this will probably be an upstream issue, since Zettlr uses astrocite-bibtex as its parser. BibLaTeX seems to be on the roadmap for that library, but not yet fully implemented. So I guess there’s not too much Zettlr can currently do about it.

nathanlesage commented 4 years ago

BibLaTeX seems to be on the roadmap for that library, but not yet fully implemented.

I would say this sounds good, because this means Zettlr will "automatically" support BibLaTeX at some point!

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kellertuer commented 3 years ago

I would also be very interested in this, since my .bib file(s) are also all BibLateX.

lpilz commented 2 years ago

I would also be interested, especially since JabRef gives the option to have a biblatex library. I had a quick look at astrocite-bibtex, but to me the project seems stale - can we expect any developments in this direction from astrocite?

nathanlesage commented 2 years ago

@lpilz I don't know, that's something you'd have to ask these folks. I mean we can certainly discuss switching to a different library or pulling in an additional one that supports BibLaTeX, but I don't have much time researching that right now.

ienzo commented 1 year ago

Hello, I too seem to be having the same issue where my citations are rendered as (Author, n.d.) instead of displaying the proper year. Would it be possible to get an update that fixes this through supporting biblatex?