[question] how to support aliases for entry types

[herrsimon]

Hello,

I need to parse a BibTeX file which, in addition to the standard types, also contains some custom entry types, such as 'slides', 'lecturenotes' etc. which all have exactly the same constraints as the entry type 'misc'. Could you please give me some pointers on how to achieve this?

I already skimmed the documentation about setting up a custom structure but have a feeling that it can be done in a couple of lines by inheriting from Text::BibTeX::BibEntry (all the custom types are basically just aliases for 'misc').

Thanks a lot in advance!

[plk]

If they are the same as misc, then you can use a sourcemap to simply map all of these to misc automatically. See \DeclareSourcemap in the documention.

[herrsimon]

Thanks for the reply, I guess you're referring to the biblatex command, correct? I'm using Text::BibTeX in a Perl program, so unfortunately this is no solution.

[plk]

Ah, sorry, I didn't see that this was a pure T::B question.