On Nov 11 2012 6:28 AM, Morten Omholt Alver wrote: > On 11 November 2012 14:00, EBo <e...@sandien.com> wrote: > >> On Nov 11 2012 3:34 AM, Morten Omholt Alver wrote: >> > On 11 November 2012 03:25, EBo <e...@sandien.com> wrote: >> > >> >> On Nov 10 2012 3:33 PM, Morten Omholt Alver wrote: >> >> > On 10 November 2012 21:37, EBo <e...@sandien.com> wrote: >> >> According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BibTeX >> >> key: A hidden field used for specifying or overriding the >> alphabetical order of entries (when the "author" and "editor" fields >> are >> missing). Note that this is very different from the key (mentioned >> just >> after this list) that is used to cite or cross-reference the entry. >> >> I have been using this in the past, and an [auth:key] works ok. I >> was >> just trying to use it for something inappropriate. >> > > Ok, I didn't know about this key field.
The question is if we should be able to use this in place of missing authors. I generally have this working under that case. >> This generates the key M=anikyadevaS=urifl.12681327:1986:RRS. What >> I >> was hoping for is some way to overwrite either the author specific >> field >> or the whole key that is generated. Is there some way to use one >> field >> if defined and stop there -- similar to [year:(unknown)] ? >> > > Ok, the main problem I see here is that the = sign should be filtered > out > from the generated key - we want the key generator to always generate > valid > keys. I will add a check for this. Agreed, but it goes a bit deeper that that -- any character modifyer (such as : ; = ' ` ...) should also be pulled out, but doing so could mess with unicode characters if not done correctly. > Regarding conditional markers, there is such mechanism, so you'll > need to > either include the author part or to omit it. (from the follow up emails I understand that there is no such mechanism) - -but in a way there is with the [year:(unknown)] construct. "unknown" should only be put in the year field if the date of publication is unknown. I was just hinking that it would be nice to generalize the idea. >> ... > > In my experience you can get LaTeX/BibTeX to play fine with UTF-8 > formatting, thus removing the need for those TeX-specific character > sequences. Regarding the specific needs posed by the texts you are > referring to, there may be some challenges getting everything the way > you > want it with BibTeX. true. I was just trying to get it as good as I can before moving on. The biggest problem I have had with that particular document is typesetting quotes (as they are all in Sanskrit -- which only has marginal support in LaTeX as you have to use special packages for the font variants). >> ... >> >> The ebuild for 2.9_beta is one that I hacked from one I found for >> 2.8.1, so I'm likely the one that will have to figure this out. >> Also, I >> am already downloading and building from the source tarball >> JabRef-2.9b-src.tar.bz2 from the JabRef site. >> > > Using our packages you can build it with dependencies included and > not have > to worry about wrong library versions. But I guess you want to make > an > ebuild to share with the Gentoo community, and in that case I really > don't > have the knowledge to help you out. and I do not have enough java experience to help out much on your side, so we might find ourselves at a respective impasse ;-) Morten, thanks for all your attention with looking into this. Best regards, EBo -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov _______________________________________________ Jabref-users mailing list Jabref-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jabref-users
