On Feb 9, 2010, at 20:12, Chris Esther wrote:

> Hello all
> 
> I'm using BibDesk in tandem with Lyx and a custom biblatex style, in a
> legal context.
> I have had to best fit some of my natural fields into the limited
> biblatex/bibtex fields available.
> 
> e.g.  biblatext/bibtex field 'location' is being used to store 'Court'
> 
> I was wondering whether it is possible to create labels for fields in
> custom types, so that the users see the label e.g. 'Court' when
> managing the entries but in the bib file the entry is written out as
> 'location'.
> I'm aware that I could create the custom types with custom fields and
> then post process the bib file,  mapping from the custom fields to
> bibtex fields. But that seems messy as it would require two bib files,
> one for use with BibDesk and the another post mapped for use with Lyx.
> 
> Am I correct in thinking that field labelling isn't currently
> available in BibDesk? Hoping to be wrong.
> Any other suggestions?

You're correct that this is not possible. I'd say that the correct way to 
handle this is to use a custom type with fields of your choice. The custom type 
can be adapted from a standard type. I don't know how customization of biblatex 
works though. 

Christiaan


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