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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
