Normalize key and type fields?

joostkremers / parsebib

Elisp library for reading .bib files

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Normalize key and type fields? #1

Closed tmalsburg closed 9 years ago

tmalsburg commented 9 years ago

My understanding is that BibTeX keys and entry types are both case-insesitive. Given that, would it make sense to normalize them in parsebib to have only lowercase letters?

joostkremers commented 9 years ago

Ebib used to do that (version 1.x), but then I decided to use the entry type and field definitions of bibtex.el, and those are mixed-case. Perhaps I should just go ahead and downcase them in Ebib as well...

tmalsburg commented 9 years ago

Hm, upon thinking about this a little more I believe that it's better to leave case untouched. Some people have perferences about how their keys should look like and may be unhappy if they are converted to lowercase.