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 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
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Joost Kremers
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