[docutils:bugs] #499 latex2e: field list absent from body when on start of input string

- **labels**: latex2e writer, field list --> latex2e writer
- **status**: open --> closed-invalid
- **Comment**:

Thank you for reporting.

The reason for the behaviour is, that [a field list at the start of a document is  transformed into a docinfo list](https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#bibliographic-fields). (It is returned as "docinfo" part also by the HTML writers.)

You can configure this behaviour with the [docinfo-xform](https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/user/config.html#docinfo-xform) setting. In the minimal example, add a line

    "docinfo_xform": False,

to the `overrides` dictionary in `latex_parts()`.



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**[bugs:#499] latex2e: field list absent from body when on start of input string**

**Status:** closed-invalid
**Labels:** latex2e writer 
**Created:** Sun Apr 06, 2025 06:43 PM UTC by PJBrs
**Last Updated:** Sun Apr 06, 2025 06:43 PM UTC
**Owner:** nobody
**Attachments:**

- [latex_lists_test.py](https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/bugs/499/attachment/latex_lists_test.py) (2.3 kB; text/x-python)


When I try to translate an RST string that begins with a field list to latex, the string is absent from the "body" part of what the writer returns.  Instead, it becomes part of "docinfo".

If I add some information before the field list, it is correctly added  to the "body" part of what core.publish_parts returns. 

I don't know docutils very well, so I've attached an MWE.

~~~
$ docutils -V
docutils (Docutils 0.21.2, Python 3.9.21, on linux)
~~~


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