biblatex flavor of betterbib

[dbitouze]

It would be nice to have a biblatex flavor of betterbib.

[nschloe]

What exactly do you mean by that?

[dbitouze]

For instance, the input BibTex

@article {krylov,
  author = {Liesen and Gaul and Nabben},
  title = {Framework Deflation Krylov Augmented}
}

would be converted into the following biblatex code:

@Article{krylov,
  author       = {Gaul, André and Gutknecht, Martin H. and Liesen, Jörg and Nabben, Reinhard},
  title        = {A Framework for Deflated and Augmented {Krylov} Subspace Methods},
  journaltitle = {SIAM J. Matrix Anal. \& Appl.},
  date         = {2013-01},
  volume       = {34},
  number       = {2},
  pages        = {495-518},
  doi          = {10.1137/110820713},
  publisher    = {Society for Industrial \& Applied Mathematics (SIAM)},
  source       = {Crossref},
}

There are not very many differences between the two syntax but some of them could be noted, e.g. the date field at ISO format instead of year (number) + month (string, subject to errors).

See e.g. https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/2974/18401 for some of the advantages of biblatex over the old bibtex.

[nschloe]

Thanks for the info! I never knew that biblatex/biber actually allow for a different syntax here and there. As a bookmark for myself, let me mention this overview of differences and the biblatex manual.

The question whether or not this can be implemented quickly probably depends on how well pybtex supports the biblatex syntax. I'll check that out later.

[dbitouze]

Thanks for the info

You're welcome!

The question whether or not this can be implemented quickly [...]

There is no pressing urgency :)

[LukasCBossert]

Any news on that issue?

[nschloe]

Depends on https://bitbucket.org/pybtex-devs/pybtex/issues/131/biblatex-compatibility.

[nschloe]

This is now fixed in betterbib 7! Full unicode support, together with the other specialities of biblatex is here.