Biber in tool mode used to sort fields within entries (not: entries in the BIB file!) alphabetically by default. Newer versions of Biber apply rather strange sorting by default. Is it possible to get back alphabetic sorting?
For all examples I ran biber --tool --output_file out.bib input.bib
.
Input:
@REPORT{Self2016,
DATE = {2016},
TITLE = {The title},
AUTHOR = {Self, My}
}
Biber 2.5 and 2.6 sort correctly:
@REPORT{Self2016,
AUTHOR = {Self, My},
DATE = {2016},
TITLE = {The title},
}
However, other fields are not sorted alphabetically, for example URL
:
Input:
@REPORT{Self2016,
DATE = {2016},
TITLE = {The title},
AUTHOR = {Self, My},
URL = {http://example.net}
}
Biber 2.5 sorts correctly:
@REPORT{Self2016,
AUTHOR = {Self, My},
DATE = {2016},
TITLE = {The title},
URL = {http://example.net},
}
Biber 2.6 does not (URL
should be last):
@REPORT{Self2016,
AUTHOR = {Self, My},
URL = {http://example.net},
DATE = {2016},
TITLE = {The title},
}
Biber 2.7 (beta) behaves like Biber 2.6. The strange sorting is not limited to URL
fields but applies to INSTITUTION
and LOCATION
as well (and maybe others).
Is there an option to enforce alphabetic sorting of the fields?