Clear. Would it be OK for me to take the defaults of these prefs into my
project? If so, where can I find these?

On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 at 01:28, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On 13 Jan 2023, at 01:20, Emiliano Heyns <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> My bad -- the booktitle should have been inherited, not present in the 
> @incollection
> entry.
>
> On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 at 00:50, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> I am not completely clear about the question. For one thing, the item you
>> mentions just has a booktitle field, so the crossref does not seem relevant
>> for it.
>>
>
> My bad -- the booktitle should have been inherited, not present in the 
> @incollection
> entry.
>
> This is more compact sample:
>
> @inproceedings{author:06,
>   title = {Some publication title},
>   author = {Author, First and Author, Second},
>   crossref = {conference:06},
>   pages = {330—331}
> }
> @book{conference:06,
>   editor = {Editor, First and Editor, Second},
>   title = {Proceedings of the Xth Conference on XYZ},
>   booktitle = {Proceedings of the Xth Conference on XYZ (Book)},
>   year = {2006},
>   month = {oct}
> }
>
>
>
>> Are you talking about the tex preview?
>>
>
> I'm not sure -- when I click an item in bibdesk, there's a preview below
> the list, is that what you mean? If so, then yes -- that preview of
> author:06 shows a booktitle, and if I double-click author:06, it shows the
> booktitle in grey, with an arrow to open the parent item. Somewhere bibdesk
> must know what fields are candidate for inheritance, and what they are
> mapped to.
>
>
> We just fill in the missing fields from the crossref item, whenever there
> is a crossref field. As for which fields we display, it is all required,
> optional, and default fields (as well as other fields that are set in the
> item itself). Required and optional fields depend on the type (set in the
> advanced Field preferences), and the default fields are the ones flagged as
> default in the table in the Field preferences. So in your example, the
> booktitle is shown as an inherited field because it is a required field for
> inproceedings.
>
> Christiaan
>
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