Better BibLaTeX import improvements

[mrgah]

A few issues cropped up when I was trying to import a Biblatex file into Zotero with better-bibtex:

• BBT ignores \mkbibemph{} and \mkbibquote{} commands
• 'thesis'-type items do not import as theses, but 'phdthesis'-type items do
• 'journaltitle' (the biblatex alias for 'journal') is not imported correctly
• 'inreference'-type items (i.e. entries in reference works) import as journal articles, not as book section items
• relatedly, 'collection'-type items import as journal articles, when they should probably be imported as books

Thanks!

[retorquere]

Can you attach a bibfile containing examples? I'll add those as test cases.

[retorquere]

@nickbart1980 I'm trying to put together an MWE compiling both csquotes and mkbibquote, but for the life of me, I'm not getting it to work. Can I bother you for a sample?

[njbart]

Sure: https://www.sharelatex.com/project/57bbf30dd796406a5f7982c3

[retorquere]

Thanks @nickbart1980, this was driving me nuts.

@mrgah, I really still need your samples as test cases. Specifically the thesis that doesn't import right, as that's the one I can't explain yet, but I really want to add them all as test cases.

[retorquere]

The synthetic tests run green.

[mrgah]

Sure, here's an example of a thesis-type item that did not import correctly. I checked and, oddly, a number of other thesis-type items did import correctly (I can provide examples of those if that would help).

@Thesis{Bennett2003, Title = {Xenonika: medical texts associated with xenones in the late Byzantine period}, Author = {Bennett, David Christopher}, Date = {2003}, Institution = {University of London}, Type = {Ph.D.}, }

[retorquere]

I'll add that to the tests and see what turns up. Can you also include samples of the other issues you described above?

[mrgah]

Sure.

An example of the \mkbibemph command:

@Incollection{Cooper2013, Title = {Byzantium between East and West: Competing Hellenisms in the \mkbibemph{Alexiad} of Anna Komnene and her Contemporaries}, Author = {Glen Cooper}, Crossref = {Classen2013}, Date = {2013}, Pages = {263-87} }

A journal article with the journaltitle field:

@Article{Correns1891, Title = {Die dem Boethius fälschlich zugeschriebene Abhandlung des Dominicus Gundisalvi {'De} unitate'}, Date = {1891}, Journaltitle = {Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie des Mittelalters}, Pages = {1-11}, Volume = {1}, Editor = {Correns, Paul}, }

An example of the (somewhat weird) biblatex-chicago Inreference entry type:

@Inreference{Algar1985, Title = {Encyclopedia Iranica}, Lista = {Besmallah: in exegesis, jurisprudence, and cultural life}, Author = {Algar, Hamid}, Date = {1985}, Pages = {172-4}, Volume = {4} }

And finally, an example of the Collection entry type:

@Collection{Arsdall2012, Title = {Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West: Essays in Honor of John M. Riddle}, Date = {2012}, Editor = {Anne van Arsdall and Timothy Graham}, Location = {Burlington, VT}, Publisher = {Ashgate}, }

Thanks!

[retorquere]

@nickbart1980 is there a known domain that Type falls into?

[retorquere]

that is to say, is there a (reasonably) fixed list of values it is likely to take?

[retorquere]

Oops nm got it.

[retorquere]

Can you try https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-better-bibtex/releases/download/builds/zotero-better-bibtex-1.6.72-circle-2793.xpi ?

[retorquere]

It is really important for me to get feedback on how a change performs before I merge it to the main version.

[mrgah]

Alright, just did a fresh import, and almost all of these issues are resolved!

The only real outstanding issue is that, according to the biblatex-chicago spec, Lista in an @Inreference is actually the title of the article, while the Title field should map to Zotero's Book Title field. (See issue 4UPHPWUG, which I believe I've submitted correctly, for the Algar1985 cite specified above.) And of course, there's the underlying problem that Zotero's Encyclopedia Article and Dictionary Entry types do not map neatly on to the Inreference type, but that's not your problem.

[retorquere]

Ugh, that lista thing is a bear. I'll get it though. Many changes again.

So 4UPHPWUG is Algar1985 after you fixed it to your liking? That's perfect.

[retorquere]

OK, give https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-better-bibtex/releases/download/builds/zotero-better-bibtex-1.6.72-circle-2814.xpi a shot.

[mrgah]

Great! Algar1985 appears to be importing correctly now (or at least as correctly as the mismatch between Biblatex and Zotero item types will allow). Thanks!

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