A follow-up note: This script failed on only 2 references out of 50 or so.
The failed items did not have incorrect information, just missing
information, so fixing them was straightforward. Quite successful all in
all.
Thanks again.
On 12/13/07 2:59 AM, "Christiaan Hofman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 13 Dec 2007, at 9:38 AM, Ingrid Giffin wrote:
>
>> Is there any way to un-link a child crossref from its parent without losing
>> the inherited information? If I delete the crossref key, all the linked
>> information disappears.
>>
>
> no, that's what crossref does.
>
>> I need to move a group of references into Bookends, which cannot interpret
>> the crossref feature. I have exported a group of refs into a separate Bib
>> file, and would like to break the links there (so that I keep them in my
>> original BibDesk bib). Once each child has all its inherited info, I can
>> move them into Bookends.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated--paper due tomorrow.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ingrid
>
> There is currently no built-in way to make inherited information permanent.
> However you could use AppleScript to do that. Try the script below (not
> tested).
>
> Christiaan
>
> tell front document of application "BibDesk"
> set thePubs to get publications
> repeat with thePub in thePubs
> set theFields to get fields of thePub
> repeat with theField in theFields
> if inherited of theField then
> set value of theField to (get value of theField)
> end if
> end repeat
> end repeat
> end tell
>
>
>
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