Provide support for IEEEtran BST control entries

Articles published in IEEE journals have their bibliography formatted with the IEEEtran.bst bibtex style file (see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/ and http://www.michaelshell.org/).

This style file is made configurable via special control entries like

@IEEEtranBSTCTL{pubblicazioni:BSTcontrol,
  CTLdash_repeated_names   = "no",
  CTLpunctuation_within_quotes  = "no",
  CTLuse_publisher_with_journals = "yes",
  CTLuse_issn_with_journals = "yes"
}

that get cited using the special command

\bstctlcite

in order to activate the configuration options defined as CTL entries in the bib entry. The special command is defined in the IEEEtran.cls class file or in the IEEEtrantools.sty package.

This mechanism currently does not work in pybtex. In fact, pybtex complains that the special entry type is not defined in the style file, when in fact it is.

Would be great if pybtex could retain compatibility with bibtex in this aspect.

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