On Friday 25 May 2007, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > The situation is the following: I normally use the english interface for > tellico (and KDE and etc.) and everything works fine. Now I asked a > secretary to create a new bibliography with a pile of books and other > references to be imported into mine. With her's it's German > 'Literaturverzeichnis'. If I open her *.tc into my English interfaced > tellico, I get German labels and German content.
OK, that's the expected behavior. > When I import this > collection into my existing data base (Tellico: File -> Import -> Import > (append)), the fields get translated and the editor becomes publisher > (see attached screenshot). I'm still a bit confused about what the problem is. When a .tc file is appended, the field "titles" are never used to match fields. Only the field "names", which are never translated. So I think the original problem is that, because of the switched translations, your secretary put the editor data in the publisher field, or vice-versa. > I admit that this is a rare sequence of events, but it leads to a > corrupted data base for both tellico's file format *and* the exported > bibtex. I'm not sure I would call it corrupted. Tellico doesn't know anything about the field title. So if you create a new book collection, change the title of the publisher field to be "author", then try to import that collection into a different file, every value you put in that field will end up as a publisher because the field _names_ are never changed. > No, as explained above. It's not a data loss in the sense that a file is > lost, but *information* is lost/corrupted. I don't know how to parse > tellico's .tc files through a bash script or something in order to fix > it. It sounds like you just need to open the field editor and change the title of the field. > My 'fix' at present is just to tell the secretary to enter the name of > the publisher into the field called 'Herausgeber' (editor) etc. If I followed everything right, then the field called 'Herausgeber' (editor) is _actually_ the publisher field indeed. If that's the cause, then yes, that sounds like the best solution. Or like I said, just rename 'Herausgeber'. Robby -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
