On 19.03.2008, at 10:26, Dominik Waßenhoven wrote:
Daniel Lohmann schrieb am 19.03.2008:
After finding myself spending more and more time with tweaking and
customizing bibliography handling I am considering switching to
biblatex.
[...]
1) Do you have to change your .bib-files?
Yes, slightly. biblatex introduces some new field types (like
maintitle, subtitle, titleaddon etc.). In order to get your
bibliography properly formatted, some changes to the bib file will
be necessary. I used jurabib previously, and it took me about 2-3
hours with a >1000 entries bib file.
I see. Are these new fields "backward compatible" in the sense that
they do not interfere with old-fashioned bibtex and both work smoothly
on the same database?
(Our group uses a global svn-managed bibtex database which is included
as svn:externals into every paper or thesis project. I doubt that I
would get through with a "big bang" transition to biblatex.)
Thanks Dominik!
Daniel
