On Jan 8, 2013, at 22:10, Dr. Adam M. Goldstein PhD MSLIS wrote: > On Jan 8, 2013, at 13:59, James Harrison <james.harri...@virginia.edu> wrote: > >> On Jan 8, 2013, at 1:37 PM, Dr. Adam M. Goldstein PhD MSLIS >> <z_californianus-dated-1358102276.4ee...@shiftingbalance.org> wrote: >> >>>> I think it would be reasonable to have at least one default choice that >>>> allows authorOrEditor, as many people will have reference lists that may >>>> include articles and books, and the books may have editors rather than >>>> authors. >>> >>> I can second this. Many times I fill in the author field with editor's >>> name, generate the cite key and autofile name, and then delete the name in >>> the author field. >> >> >> Just FYI, this is relatively easy to fix in the interim by going to both the >> auto file and cite key panels in preferences, clicking "Advanced," and then >> changing %a to %p in the format string (leave everything else the same). >> This will drop back to using the editor name if there is no author name. >> > > Thanks, that's useful. I didn't realize that %p would go to editor if no > author is found! > >> Jim Harrison >> UVA
Sorry, we cannot do this. Changing the set of presets is real mess, as it breaks backwards compatibility. So the only reason we would ever do that is to fix a bug. Not to add convenience. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122712 _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
