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bug #273: biblatex broken again

Submitted by:  Michal Hoftich <michal_h21>
Submitted on:  Fri Mar 11 13:26:16 2016  
 
Category: NonePriority: 5 - Normal
Severity: 5 - NormalStatus: None
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Sun Jul 26 16:41:55 2020, comment #14:

I think it is :)

Michal Hoftich <michal_h21>
Project Member
Sun Jul 26 16:20:12 2020, comment #13:

since this is 3.5 years old, I'm guessing biblatex is ok now?

Karl Berry <karl>
Project Administrator
Mon Dec 19 22:28:53 2016, comment #12:

can you update the source for ex.22 (and any others) in our repo, then?

no idea about the indexes :(.

it would be nice to be able to type "make" and have those checks done, at least. oh well, maybe someday.

Karl Berry <karl>
Project Administrator
Mon Dec 19 10:04:43 2016, comment #11:

Example 22 indeed changed upstream, it can be compiled without errors now. There is an issue with generated index, because it contains page numbers, without links to the citation. But it looks fine otherwise.

Michal Hoftich <michal_h21>
Project Member
Sun Dec 18 23:13:03 2016, comment #10:

can you check in the upstream to see if ex.22 (or others) have changed there?

Karl Berry <karl>
Project Administrator
Sat Dec 17 10:20:33 2016, comment #9:

I've tried to run some examples and they seem fine, except example 22, which uses indexing and it ran with errors, the document is also wrong

Michal Hoftich <michal_h21>
Project Member
Wed Dec 14 00:05:54 2016, comment #8:

I uploaded the tests as last received in the new tests/biblatex/ subdirectory. Probably more supporting files are needed, I only committed the *.tex files for starters since I didn't know.

There was a biber/biblatex release a few days ago. Probably they need to be updated (and tested) again.

Karl Berry <karl>
Project Administrator
Mon Dec 12 14:01:45 2016, comment #7:

Probably not. I also made some testing library for Biblatex in Lua back in March, but I can't find it now.

Michal Hoftich <michal_h21>
Project Member
Sat Dec 10 23:41:48 2016, comment #6:

did the biblatex tests get into the repository?

Karl Berry <karl>
Project Administrator
Wed Mar 16 17:09:17 2016, comment #5:

installed in tex4ht and tl, thanks.

leaving this one open until tests are in the repository and all working again, i guess ...

Karl Berry <karl>
Project Administrator
Tue Mar 15 15:05:17 2016, comment #4:

Sure, here is a patch.

(file #231)

Michal Hoftich <michal_h21>
Project Member
Mon Mar 14 22:17:22 2016, comment #3:

glad you tried them. probably the failing tests need to be updated due to biblatex incompatibilities being introduced.

anyway, can you post the tex4ht-4ht.tex patch and i'll install it as usual? thanks, k.

Karl Berry <karl>
Project Administrator
Mon Mar 14 09:41:29 2016, comment #2:

I've executed all tests from CVR's bundle and it seems that it works correctly, except tests 21 and 22, where run time error occurred, but it happens also with pdflatex. Sample 82 compiles without error, but some fields in the bibliography are missing.

Biblatex maintainers are interested in tex4ht support, we will hopefully make some automated tests in Lua.

Michal Hoftich <michal_h21>
Project Member
Sat Mar 12 00:32:18 2016, comment #1:

hi michal - most excellent that you managed to get tex4ht working again. compatibility is clearly not a big concern for biblatex :(.

i have the original tl'15 release of biblatex at hand, but no files to test with. i know cvr created an extensive suite of biblatex test files, but the version i have for them is from June 7, 2015, and i'm pretty sure that is not up to date. cvr, if you have time, can you maybe check them into the repository somewhere?

anyway,
1) if you have some simple test file i can run, i will, and
2) if you make the patch for tex4ht-4ht.tex i'll install the new version in tl anyway since surely people will be noticing the problem soon. thanks ...

Karl Berry <karl>
Project Administrator
Fri Mar 11 13:26:16 2016, original submission:

It seems to be a tradition, new version of biblatex recently updated on CTAN crashes tex4ht configuration. This time it produces several error messages and doesn't produce any citations nor references.

One problem is that some macros introduced in 3.0 were removed again, so we probably need to make test for minor version and leave them in biblatex 3.4. The other problem is that biblatex does some things in \AtEndPreamble{} command and we can't fix it easily. It tries to redefine \MakeUppercase and \MakeLowercase macros, but patching fails, because they are redefined by tex4ht as well. The other thing is that it process list of babel languages and loads language files for them (it is probably requested only in some bibliography styles, for example Biblatex ISO 690 [1]). For some reason, the language files are loaded correctly, but code which should be executed only in case of failed loading is started. This results in run time error and language handling doesn't work.

I've modified biblatex.4ht to fix these issues, but it needs more testing, in particular with previous biblatex version, if someone has access to it.

[1] https://github.com/michal-h21/biblatex-iso690

Michal Hoftich <michal_h21>
Project Member

 

Attached Files
file #231:  biblatex.diff added by michal_h21 (2kB - text/x-patch)
file #230:  biblatex.4ht added by michal_h21 (20kB - application/octet-stream)

 

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    Tue Mar 15 15:05:17 2016michal_h21Attached File-=>Added biblatex.diff, #231
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