I have run into an interesting issue with Bibdesk (1.8.16) that I had not
encountered before. I have a .bib file that has entries like the following. The
relevant part of this is the @inproceedings{icde22_Wang:2022aa line. When I
copy them into my master Bibdesk library, it loses the “icde22_”
Do you have automatic cite key generation turned on (and is your cite key
format %a1:%Y%u2)?
Christiaan
> On 16 May 2023, at 16:03, M. Tamer Özsu via Bibdesk-users
> wrote:
>
> I have run into an interesting issue with Bibdesk (1.8.16) that I had not
> encountered before. I have a .bib file
No, it changed a bit.And it does work, that’s why it changed. It generates the
cite key for newly added items, as the preference choice says.
Christiaan
> On 16 May 2023, at 18:59, M. Tamer Özsu via Bibdesk-users
> wrote:
>
> Yes, Christian, that is the case. It never occurred to me that it
It doesn’t, and shouldn’t, change it for existing items. Only for new items,
i.e. ones that you add or create.
Christiaan
> On 16 May 2023, at 22:58, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
> No, it changed a bit.And it does work, that’s why it changed. It generates
> the cite key for newly added items,
Just wondering, why would you not want to auto-generate the cite key when
adding?
Christiaan
> On 16 May 2023, at 23:51, M. Tamer Özsu via Bibdesk-users
> wrote:
>
> Right. That is what is happening -- open the file, cite keys in the .bib file
> is maintained; but copy those into the master
OK, I'll turn it off while importing the file and then turn it back on.
Interestingly, if I just open that .bib file (with the "icde22_" prefix in the
cite key, it does not change things; only when I copy and add them to my master
.bib file.
==Tamer
> On May 16, 2023, at 4:58 PM, Christiaan
Right. That is what is happening -- open the file, cite keys in the .bib file
is maintained; but copy those into the master .bib file, they are revised. Now
that I know why, I can work around it.
Many thanks Christiaan.
==Tamer
> On May 16, 2023, at 5:12 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
> It
Yes, Christian, that is the case. It never occurred to me that it could be a
problem; I’ve always had it turned on and it used to work (I think). Perhaps I
was temporarily turning it off previously.
Many thanks.
==Tamer
> On May 16, 2023, at 10:13 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
> Do you
> On May 16, 2023, at 15:12 , Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
> Just wondering, why would you not want to auto-generate the cite key when
> adding?
If you have a master .bib file and create smaller ones as needed by
project/report/topic/etc, it makes sense that you'd want the same citekeys in
Sorry, I missed that question from Christiaan. In my case, I autogenerate the
cite key, but then want to prefix it with the abbreviation of the name of the
conference or journal where it appeared. The hacky way I do it is to open the
.bib file after I autogenerate the cite key and just prepend
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