Re: [Bibdesk-users] Autogeneration syntax, 2 authors, 3 authors, etal.

2018-07-13 Thread Jan David Hauck
I just downloaded the last nightly, and ... to my great joy the new addition to the autogeneration syntax is already working! Thank you so very much, Christiaan, for finding a solution and immediately implementing it. On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 3:29 PM, Jan David Hauck wrote: > That would be more

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Autogeneration syntax, 2 authors, 3 authors, etal.

2018-07-11 Thread Jan David Hauck
That would be more than awesome! :) On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 2:56 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > I may have a better solution. Add the number at the end of the metal > optional argument, > > *%a**[,][etal1]20* > > The problem would be when someone would have used numbers art the end of > "et

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Autogeneration syntax, 2 authors, 3 authors, etal.

2018-07-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
I may have a better solution. Add the number at the end of the metal optional argument, %a[,][etal1]20 The problem would be when someone would have used numbers art the end of "et al." itself, but I think that won’t happen. Christiaan > On 11 Jul 2018, at 17:39, Jan David Hauck wrote: > >

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Autogeneration syntax, 2 authors, 3 authors, etal.

2018-07-11 Thread Jan David Hauck
Yeah, I thought about that. But might it not be feasible to add it as an additional option? For example, I could think of a set of optional third (or, for %A%P, fourth) brackets with a number, with the meaning "max number of authors if etal is present" *%a[,][etal][1]20* *%A[,][,][etal][1]20*

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Autogeneration syntax, 2 authors, 3 authors, etal.

2018-07-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
I am sorry, we can not support this. It would not be backwards compatible, current formats would not automagically conform themselves. Christiaan -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging

[Bibdesk-users] Autogeneration syntax, 2 authors, 3 authors, etal.

2018-07-08 Thread Jan David Hauck
Dear all, A couple of years ago, an Apple script was circulated on this list to get BibDesk to generate citekeys following the schema below: 1) McCracken_2004 for a single author 2) McCracken_and_Maxwell_2004 for two authors 3) McCracken_et_al_2004 for 3 or more authors Essentially, what is

[Bibdesk-users] Autogeneration syntax, 2 authors, 3 authors, etal.

2018-07-08 Thread Jan David Hauck
Dear all, A couple of years ago, an Apple script was circulated on this list to get BibDesk to generate citekeys following the schema below: 1) McCracken_2004 for a single author 2) McCracken_and_Maxwell_2004 for two authors 3) McCracken_et_al_2004 for 3 or more authors Essentially, what is