On Sep 4, 2010, at 8:33 AM, Lucas Müller wrote:

> Most times the authors of a paper are separated by commas. When I copy and 
> paste the lists of authors from a paper to BibDesk's author field, BibDesk 
> does not recognize the separation of authors by comma but assumes that the 
> comma is a separation between given and family name and only takes "and" in 
> account for separation of author names. How can I change BibDesk that it as 
> well recognizes commas as separation for author names as well as commas?

You cannot do this.  The BibTeX database requires that author names be 
separated by "and" rather than a punctuation mark.  This makes sense when you 
consider a name field of the form

Lastname, F. M. and ...

The software needs to reliably split the name, and comma is used to separate 
last/first names.  If you think you have a robust way to interpret comma, you 
might be able to add a script hook to do replace "," with "and" where 
appropriate.



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