On 7 Mar 2009, at 12:00 AM, Alex Hamann wrote:
>
> On 03.03.2009, at 21:32, James Harrison wrote:
>
>> Also, if there was any thought of including my preview template in
>> BibDesk, I'd want to do a little work on it, perhaps with some help
>> from someone who is deeply knowledgeable about templates. It works
>> well for me now, but there are couple of lesser-used bibliography
>> types that I think could be covered better, and I'm not sure that I
>> am
>> using conditional punctuation optimally in all cases. If it becomes
>> more widely used and anyone has any problems, please feel free to let
>> me know (especially if you know how to fix it!) and I'll try to make
>> improvements.
>>
>> Jim Harrison
>>
>
>
> Hello James,
>
> I hope this does not come across to be overly critic but I'll take
> your offer to report back weaknesses by the word.
> I am also not sure if I should post this over the mailing list of
> just directly to you but I decided for the former, maybe this will
> help finding a solution more easily.
> Your template seems to struggle with multiple editors. The following
> item
>
> @book{Berdal:2007aa,
> Address = {Cambridge},
> Editor = {Berdal, Mats R. and Economides, Spyros},
> Publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
> Title = {United Nations Interventionism, 1991--2004},
> Year = {2007}}
>
> is shown as follows using your template:
> United Nations Interventionism, 1991--2004
> . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2007.
>
>
> (Berdal:2007aa, book)
>
I guess this should could be easily fixed as in my abbrevTemplate,
which uses the editors if no authors are provided (the standard in
bibtex book styles).
> Second example, now with multiple authors. Works better, just a
> period after the first author's abbreviated first name could be
> inserted.
>
> @book{Debiel:2002aa,
> Address = {New York},
> Author = {Debiel, Tobias and Klein, Axel},
> Date-Added = {2009-02-25 22:49:08 +0000},
> Date-Modified = {2009-03-06 22:44:10 +0000},
> Isbn = {1842771701},
> Publisher = {Zed Books},
> Title = {Fragile Peace: State Failure, Violence, and Development in
> Crisis Regions},
> Year = {2002}}
>
>
> =>
> Fragile Peace: State Failure, Violence, and Development in Crisis
> Regions
> Debiel T, Klein A. New York: Zed Books; 2002.
>
>
> (Debiel:2002aa, book)
>
>
> Last example which shows a weakness in dealing with multiple first
> and middle names:
>
> @book{Prescott:1981aa,
> Address = {Honolulu, Hawaii},
> Author = {Prescott, J. R. Victor},
> Publisher = {East-West Environment and Policy Institute},
> Series = {Research report},
> Title = {Maritime Jurisdiction in Southeast Asia: A Commentary and
> Map},
> Volume = {no. 2},
> Year = {1981}}
>
> =>
> Maritime Jurisdiction in Southeast Asia: A Commentary and Map
> Prescott JRV. Vol. no. 2. Honolulu, Hawaii: East-West Environment
> and Policy Institute; 1981.
> (Prescott:1981aa, book)
>
Actually, the last two examples are not so much a fault of the
template, but of the (IMHO stupid) name format common in medical
sciences. It's why I find the format incredulous (I had a hard time
believing anyone had ever invented this as a standard, let alone
journals demanding it). I would strongly oppose it in a default
template for BibDesk.
>
> Best,
>
> Alex
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