[Bibdesk-users] Auto-gen cite keys redux

[Alex M. <ah...@st...>]

Just wondering whether adding in this to the citekey format string as 
an option was still in the works or whether it had been put on the back 
burner.

Thanks!
-AHM

On Jan 2, 2005, at 5:40 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
> I have some problems with this proposal, as %a. means: all authors 
> followed by one dot at the end. I would like to keep this, to have say 
> Auth1Auth2:2000xx. In  other words: such things may be ambiguous, and 
> quite cumbersome to detect with the format parser. Maybe we can make 
> use of some characters to delimit them like braces (as those are not 
> allowed in cite-key formats). Say
> %a{.}3{etal};
> would mean: 3 authors separated by . with etal as suffix for more 
> authors, and ; after all authors. I think this is relatively easy to 
> implement. Does this sound reasonble and not too cumbersome?
> Christiaan
>