On 2018-02-18 12:23, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
On 02/18/2018 06:07 PM, Alan Braslau wrote:
title={The Cambridge Companion to {\em Ulysses}},
Alan, I think this was Rik Kabel's point: for some scenarios, you cannot avoid to have some sort of context commands in your bibtex file. For a while, I also used biblatex from time to time, so I tried to have a bibtex file that would be as clean as possible and work with both systems, but your example shows that this is not always possible. Well, nothing that some well-written perl couldn't get rid of...
All best
Thomas
Indeed, that was my point. Even without the mathematics components that were cited, I cannot imagine how markup could be excluded from the BibTeX file, and for that matter, from any other bibliographical database I have seen, if we have to comply with arbitrary formatting standards. The statement that one should not put any such formatting into the file is perhaps aspirational, but not really useful. -- Rik