bug#69266: 30.0.50; bibtex-parse-entry misreads escaped \}

[Roland Winkler]

On Mon, Feb 26 2024, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> Also, talking about biblatex, I do note that
> https://ctan.org/pkg/biblatex has a more detailed description of the
> syntax with notable differences from bibtex. For example, biblatex
> allows "crossref" field that defines entry inheritance;

"crossref" fields are already part of BibTeX.  Do you say biblatex
"crossref" fields go beyond what BibTeX "crossref" fields offer?
Please be specific in a new bug report.

> field aliases;

Agreed, field aliases including customizable field aliases could be
useful.  Aliases for entries would probably be yet more useful.
If I remember correctly, biblatex defines a bunch of entry types that
are really just aliases for other entries.

> and special key-value format like
> AUTHOR = {given=Hans, family=Harman and given=Simon, prefix=de,
> family=Beumont}

If you submit a separate bug report, please include a description what a
meaningful support could look like.  As far as I know, emacs does not
provide a good general scheme for filling a set of fields like "given",
"prefix", and "family".  I am not sure the above justifies to come up
with a sophisticated scheme for that.