On 12 Aug 2007, at 4:47 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote:
>
> On 12.08.2007, at 16:40, Simon Spiegel wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> during the last two days I played around with BibDesk's templates
>> for the first time since quite some time (IIRC correctly the
>> template system was originally a feature request I made), and I
>> came up with several questions. Some of them are probably of
>> general interest, some could turn into bug reports or feature
>> requests later, but I thought that the user list is the best place
>> to post them.
>>
>> - I think it would be nice if BibDesk remembered the path it
>> stores its templates. I just added a bunch of templates, and every
>> time the file requester would jump to ~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib/
>> where the .bib file is located which is openend on launh, and
>> every time I have to change to ~/Library/Application support/
>> BibDesk/templates
>>
>> - @componentsJoinedByComma In my tests this only worked for
>> 'author', but not for 'editor' or any other field which uses 'and'
>> for multiple entries ('address' for example). Is this by design,
>> or a bug or am I doing something wrong. And an additional
>> question: I'd really like to have a @componentsJoinedBySlash
>> function, or mabye even the possibility to choose the separator
>> freely (especially useful for non-english users).
>>
>> - I'm not really sure what the difference between 'author' and
>> 'persons.author' is. What I found is that 'persons.editor' or
>> 'editors' gives me this strange output: ( {"__self__" = ""; },
>> {"__self__" = ""; }, {"__self__" = ""; } )
>>
>> - @stringByConvertingDoubleHyphenToEndash only works on the first
>> double hyphen in an entry. For example, if have a title like
>> 'Things -- other things -- more things' only the first double
>> hyphen is converted. Is this by design or a bug? And is it
>> possible to set this globally? I can't really think of a situation
>> where I don't want double hyphens to be converted, so I'd love to
>> set this for all entries.
>>
>> - I really like the ability to check if a field corresponds to a
>> certain given value. Is it also possible to see whether a field
>> (like 'author') has several entries? This would be very useful for
>> differentiating betwen 'ed.' and 'eds.'.
>>
>> - Is it possible to export names as 'first name last name'? It
>> would of course be possible, if they have been entered that way,
>> but this isn't the case (and shouldn't be encouraged). I played
>> around with 'first name' and 'last name', but I really didn't
>> understand how this is supposed to work and whether it works at
>> all with the 'editor' field.
>
> Ok, this one I found out thanks to the wiki, authors.name and
> editors.name; still I don't really understand the logic behind it.
>
> simon
>
"authors" and "editors" are collections of person objects. Properties
of collections are applied to the *items* unless it starts with an @.
So "authors.name" is a collection of names (strings). You can either
use collections in a collection tag, as in
<$authors>
<$name/>
</$authors>
or make a single string out of it and use it in a value tag, as in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]/>
(as "@ componentsJoinedByCommaAndAnd" starts with an @, it gives a
property of the whole collection rather than acting on the collection
items)
You can use it in a value tag, as in <$authors.name/>, but that's not
intended behavior (it will give a comma-separated list enclosed in
brackets).
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