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> So, after all, what is your proposal to modify biblatex for preprints, after all? At the moment, I don't know. I just wanted to clear up some issues with...

@ryofurue I appreciate the maieutics, but please let me reiterate that "generally, people should be able to expect that fields mean roughly what their names suggests" is quite a bit...

As I said above, I'm not keen on the broadening the meaning of `journaltitle` thing. I feel that people have a tendency to try and use `@article` for basically anything...

Thank you very much for considering to contribute a new localisation for `biblatex`! Step one is to have a look at the `.lbx` checklist in the Wiki: https://github.com/plk/biblatex/wiki/Checklist-for-submitting-a-new-localisation-file-(.lbx) Translate as...

I think `biblatex-software` is pretty heavy. It comes with three new entry types and a number of new fields. I have the feeling that for the average user the current...

`version` is already supported. We don't have a `repository` field, but there is the generic `url`, which will probably be enough for simple use cases.

I guess my argument is not that software citations are uncommon enough that we don't have to worry about them. We *do* have a `@software` entry type, after all. My...

> I believe that this may look like a niche need, but there is a tidal wave coming, for which we need to prepare. So why not think of `biblatex-software`...

There is now work on title casing in the LaTeX kernel: https://github.com/latex3/latex3/pull/1240

I think we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that we still support BibTeX as a backend. AFAICS BibTeX can only produce `.bbl` files. The `.bbl` files produced by BibTeX...