On Jul 9, 2013, at 16:46, Bernd wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I previously sent this question to the bibdesk mailing list, but I was not
> yet a member of the list myself and the question hasn't appeared in the
> thread list, so I thought it might be because I wasn't yet registered. So
> here I come again, and apologies for the double-posting.
>
> I found this manual regarding the syntax for automatic generation of cite
> keys in BibDesk. I would, however, like to achieve a somewhat special way and
> couldn't get it to work.
>
> Take three items in the bibliography (similar to the example in the manual):
>
> M. McCracken, A. Maxwell, and J. Howison,
> title I, some journal, 2001
>
> M. Routley and S. Spiegel,
> title II, some other journal, 2009
>
> S. S. Porst,
> title III, yet another journal, 2012
>
> The way I'd like to create cite keys is: [three letters of the authors'
> surnames in total, i.e. if there is only one author: first three letters; if
> there are two authors: first two letters of the first author, first letter of
> the second; if there are three authors: first letter of each author]+[short
> year number]+[unique letter]
>
> So the cite keys for the above example would be: MMH01a, RoS09a, Pro12a.
>
> While I do manage the year number and the unique letter given the BibDesk
> syntax, I can't get the first part (about the authors' names) to work. Any
> help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Many thanks,
> Bernd
Sorry, that's not possible. You can set a fixed number of characters for each
individual name, and a fixed (maximum) number of authors to consider. Not the
total number for all names together.
Christiaan
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