On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Christiaan Hofman<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Jul 25, 2009, at 7:57 PM, Alex Hamann wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am using biblatex and thus frequently have a title consisting of the
>> title field and the subtitle field. My issue here is that the crossref
>> option to automagically have a duplication of the title to the
>> booktitle field does ignore the subtigle field. How are other users
>> dealing with this? If - as I currently think is the correct approach -
>> the booktitle field should include the full title including the
>> subtitle, would there be any way to change BD's current duplication
>> behaviour?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Alex
>>
>
> The booktitle duplication is based on bibtex as described in btxdoc,
> and is just a service for some peculiarities in that definition. If we
> would get this RFE now, the duplication feature would most definitely
> be rejected. If it weren't for the existing precendence it would be
> removed. So it will certainly not be 'enhanced'.
>
> The proper way to do this kind of things now is through script hooks,
> which you can customize as much as you want.

The approach many people use is to put the full title in the "Book
Title" field, and the shorter title in a "shorttitle" field.

Best,

Nicholas

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