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tidy_bib_file() does not preserve BibLaTeX entries #61

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citr::tidy_bib_file() does not seem to handle BibLaTeX entries. For example, @online entry in the original bib file is not preserved as is; it is transferred into BibTeX @Misc entry in tidy bib file while missing some information.

This causes some issues as different entries are differently interpreted by pandoc-citeproc. In brief, even though the original messy bib file is in BibLaTeX format, currently tidy_bib_file() forces it into BibTeX format.

Would there be any way to keep the original BibLaTeX entries as they are?

Please refer to the following reproducible code along with original messy test.bib and the processed tidy_references.bib file with a special attention to @online entry.

# Download test Rmd and bib files:
utils::download.file("https://jooyoungseo.com/test.Rmd", destfile = "test.Rmd")
utils::download.file("https://jooyoungseo.com/test.bib", destfile = "test.bib")

# Loading RefManageR
library(RefManageR)

# Create tidy bib file:
citr::tidy_bib_file(
  rmd_file = "test.Rmd"
  , messy_bibliography = "test.bib"
  , file = "tidy_references.bib"
)
#> Removing 119 unneeded bibliography entries.
#> Writing 4 Bibtex entries ... OK
#> Results written to file 'tidy_references.bib'

Created on 2020-01-21 by the reprex package (v0.3.0.9001)

Session info
sessioninfo::session_info()
#> - Session info ---------------------------------------------------------------
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#>  language (EN)                        
#>  collate  English_United States.1252  
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#>  tz       America/New_York            
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