On 12 Jan 2009, at 5:46 PM, Christian Plessl wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> I make quite extensive use of BibTeX macros. When sending BibTeX
> entries to my colleagues I'm using the following template to expand
> all macros:
>
> <$publications>
> @<$pubType/>{<$citeKey/><$allfiel...@nonempty>,
> <$name/> = {<$value/>}</$allfiel...@nonempty>}
> </$publications>
>
> This works fine for all macros, only the BibTeX month field causes
> troubles. I'm storing the month name always with its 3 letter
> abbreviation, i.e., jan, feb, ...
>
> The problem is that when expanding the name of the month in the
> template BibDesk seems to apply the date format from my region/locale.
> That is, in my setup (language set to English, but Region set to
> Switzerland (German)) the month names are written in German. For
> example, if I have a BibTeX entry with Month = jan, it is expanded to
> "Januar", instead of "January" or "jan". This causes problems with
> common BibTeX styles.
>
> The same problem also occurs in the edit dialog for a BibTeX entry.
>
> Is this intended behavior? A possible workaround might be to re-define
> each month with a macro @{jan = January}, but this seems too hackish
> for me.
>
> Best regards,
> Christian
Yes, BibDesk uses the month names from the user localization for the
default month name macros. If you want to change this, you can
override the macros for the month name. Either in your document or in
BD's Fields prefs.
Christiaan
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