On 30 Dec 2013, at 18:11, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > On Dec 30, 2013, at 18:00, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > >> >> On Dec 30, 2013, at 16:03, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I just added a "book" with a "Title". Then I created a "New Publication >>> with Crossref". The "incollection"-item then inherited the "Title" from the >>> "Book". I would expect that the "Title" from the "Book" would go into >>> "Booktitle" in the "incollection"-item. Why does it work the way it does? >>> >>> Thanks :) >>> >>> Niels >> >> It inherits fields as they are named. It's pretty straight forward and >> simple, nothing more. There is no meta information about different fields in >> different types anywhere in the program. >> >> Christiaan >> > > BTW, this is not just BibDesk, this is in fact how bibtex works. Know that > also bibtex has no internal information about fields and types. Only the > bibtex styles know about types and fields, but inheriting fields is not done > by the style, but more primitively by bibtex itself (and therefore could > never use any type information.) Just look at the bibtex output (e.g. using > the tex preview), you should note that the Title is inherited by the > incollection from the book, but not the Booktitle, just as BibDesk does.
I figured that bibtex has no knowledge about fields and how they work but only on the style knoww. I didn't know that it has some kind of inheritance but thought that it is a comfort-function of BibDesk filling out the fields. Henceforth I wondered why it doesn't move in that case the Title to Booktitle since I would think that if you start adding chapters of a book, you usually add a Title, too. Niels
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