On 04.09.2011, at 23:23, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
> On Sep 4, 2011, at 13:33 , Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
>> On Sep 4, 2011, at 19:16, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>>
>> Though for existing items you can also use the menu action.
>
> Thanks, I totally forgot about that one :).
>
>>> Why are you using crossrefs, anyway?
>>
>> Basically what Adam is trying to say, I think, is that if you are not using
>> it for bibtex purposes you should not really have to bother with it. While
>> if you use it for bibtex purposes, then this is how bibtex works.
>
> Partly, yes. If all you want is a way to link references, there are better
> ways to do it.
What approach would you suggest? I just thought of crossref as a nice method to
link inherited publication. But since I am using biblatex, it seems not to work
properly.
> However, I think crossrefs are largely a waste of time these days, when we
> have searching/sorting/grouping to find related references, and
> autocompletion to help enter them consistently. IIRC the only other thing it
> does is add the @book as a separate reference in the printed bibliography, if
> you reference two or more items that crossref to it; I generally don't want
> that myself, but YMMV.
>
> As I recall, we mainly added crossref support for long-time BibTeX users, who
> wanted searching/sorting/display support for crossref children without
> modifying hundreds of citations. As with macros, it was a really complex
> engineering effort to add support in BibDesk and deal with all of the edge
> cases, especially without killing performance.
>
> It looks like biblatex has taken the simplistic BibTeX crossref scheme and
> added a bunch of special case field mappings per-type, which means that
> support in BibDesk is basically out of the question. IMNSHO, the better
> thing to do would have been to deprecate crossrefs, rather than add such a
> complicated bandaid.
>
> --
> Adam
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