Hello,

2014-10-19 10:28 GMT+02:00 Tobias Diez <tobiasd...@gmx.de>:

> I want to extend the biblatex support of Jabref.

Good to hear. Currently, no one is working on Biblatex support.

> The first step on my list is to implement the aliased entry fields in
> biblatex. For example, if the 'journaltitle' is given then it also should be
> displayed in the 'Journal' column in the big overview table.

I'm not using Biblatex. Is there really the concept of aliased fields? :)

> Similarly, the
> information in the 'date' field should be used to construct the bibtexkey
> (i.e. extract the year).

This can be customized in Options/Preferenzes/BibTeX key generator.

> [...] Then one only has to go through the thousands or so
> usages of getField and decide if the new 'withAlias'-method should be
> invoked instead. Any ideas on this?

Seems reasonable :)

> After this is accomplished I would rework the BiblatexEntriesTypes (for
> example, the year field is not required) and move the old bibtex fields
> which possess an alias to a new tab 'Depreciated fields'.

OK.

> Finally, the
> cleanup method could be extended to convert an old entry to a new biblatex
> entry.

Only in BibLaTeX mode, but sounds good!

Cheers,

Oliver

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