Not possible to resolve @String which is defined in style file

[lukeflo]

First of all, this is very likely not a direct issue of the biblatex crate itself, but, nevertheless, might be of interest for some users.

I'm working on an own little Rust project writing a TUI for fast and easy interaction with someones BibLaTeX database and use this great crate for parsing the input files. While testing it, a friend encountered a little problem with @Strings.

If the @String is defined in the .bib file itself, the crate can parse the entry without any errors. But there are some BibLaTeX styles which offer predefined set of @Strings in their .bst files.

Using a .bib file containing those abbreviations defined in the style file without (re)defining them in the .bib file itself leads to a panic and aborts the program:

➜  release git:(main) ./bibiman ~/@mycene/00-09_system/01_emacs/01.02_bib/auf-dem-forum-thesis.bib

thread 'main' panicked at src/backend/bib.rs:40:74:
called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: ParseError { span: 1780..1785, kind: UnknownAbbreviation("AEspA") }

note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

In this case the BibLaTeX style archaeologie was used which defines a large set of @Strings.

This is very unlikely to be solved by the biblatex crate itself, since it definitely cannot source/parse all BibLaTeX style files. But it might be worth knowing for someone who wants to use the crate or Typst with a specific .bib file containing those @Strings