Hello,
I've noticed recently that when importing records from PubMed (eg via the
built in search) the BibTex Year field ends up with the full contents of
PubMed's DP (Date of Publication) field which looks like:
DP - 1975 Oct 27
This is annoying because BibTex expects that field to have nothing but the
year and I end up malformed author-year citations looking like:
(Jones et al., 2007 Jan 21)
Have others noticed this? I'm not sure what's changed, perhaps something at
the PubMed end, but looking at the current code, the problem seems to be
that DP is translated into the BibTex Year field without any further
processing. It seems to me that it should be split into the BibTex Year and
Month fields respectively. Does that sound right?
Finally this seems a good time of year to thank all of the developers for
making BibDesk such a useful application.
Best wishes,
Greg.
PS After a bit more poking around, I've submitted a bug report #2483379
including a patch against current svn trunk which fixes this for me. The
patch is also at:
http://pastie.org/351410
It would be great if one of the developers could give it the once over and
fix/commit.
--
Gregory Jefferis, PhD [email protected]
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