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On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 09:32:44AM +0100, Frank wrote:
> Thanks, I did not know the difference between 'tm-' and traditional
> styles. I chose a 'tm-' style (by default). I find that although the
> article title and author are parsed, the date and the eprint
> identifier (arXiv:XXXX) or the classification (say math.DS) don't
> show.

Yes, that is normal.  These are not legit BibTeX fields, so they are ignored.

> Now I tried 'alpha'. I don't know how to configure it properly.

Non-standard fields will be ignored by all styles.

> I tried bibtex with 'alpha' style. It seems to me that the directory
> is not configured correctly. I look at temp.aux at
> $HOME/.TeXmacs/system/bib, which contains a line "\bibdata{all}"
> without the correct path (I set up a database which collects all the
> bibliography that I have used). As a result, bibtex ends up with "I
> couldn't open database file all.bib". Seemingly I need to open a bug
> report?

Could be; but it might be that your BibTeX simply wasn't configured
in the right way.  I would need very precise information about your setup:
which OS, which version of TeXmacs, how did you install BibTeX, ...

Best wishes, --Joris