Daniel Lohmann schrieb am 19.03.2008:
Are these new fields "backward compatible" in the sense that they do not interfere with old-fashioned bibtex and both work smoothly on the same database?
I think so. biblatex treats some fields in another way, e.g. 'edition', which should contain only numerals, or 'address', which can cope with lists like "London and New York and ..." in order to abbreviate the list if necessary. Most of these fields should also work if the expected data type is different, e.g. 'address = {London, New York}' works also (only the abbreviation does not work, then). For details, please look into the biblatex documentation, there is also a list of all fields and how they are treated in biblatex.
Regards, Dominik.-
