Re: text like "circa" and "BCE" in BibTeX year field

[Steve Petersen <spetey-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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Hmm ... I didn't know that BibTeX was deprecated! It's been fine for me for 
almost a couple decades now ... I guess I grew complacent that I didn't 
need to do any more damn tinkering with style files and such.

I have no `biblatex` command, but apparently I have `biber` with my MacTeX 
package, which from what I googled seems related to BibLaTeX somehow. But I 
can't get even a minimal example to run properly with it. (The minimal 
example 
<https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13509/biblatex-in-a-nutshell-for-beginners> 
I found online doesn't work - the `\printbibliography` makes an undefined 
control sequence.)

Anyway thanks to the wonder of pandoc, I rarely use straight-up LaTeX these 
days. It sounds like editing the right CSL file in the right place, with 
`year = {-350}` in the bib file, might be the best combination of easy + 
acceptable. Any further thoughts are appreciated - and thanks for your 
patience.

On Wednesday, June 27, 2018 at 5:45:23 AM UTC-4, Joost wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 27 2018, Steve Petersen wrote: 
> > Alas the '{-0349~}' version doesn't work in either LaTeX or 
> > pandoc. (It 
> > gives "Aristotle (-0349)" in LaTeX, and "n.d." in pandoc.) 
>
> That probably means you're using BibTeX, which you really 
> shouldn't... BibTeX is old and (AFAIK) unmaintained, at least in 
> the sense that it doesn't support modern things such as Unicode / 
> utf encodings, etc. 
>
> If you want do to bibliographies with LaTeX use biblatex instead. 
> Pandoc can output LaTeX code that uses biblatex (use the 
> --biblatex option), though it requires that you run latex - biber 
> - latex on the output file yourself. With biblatex, `date = 
> {-0348~}' will work. (See e.g., Table 5, p. 39 of the biblatex 
> manual). 
>
> HTH 
>
> -- 
> Joost Kremers 
> Life has its moments 
>

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