Re: [Bibdesk-users] Two (small?) feature requests and one not-quite-bug report

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

On Jul 13, 2005, at 12:21 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote:

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> On Jul 13, 2005, at 09:11, Aaron Jackson wrote:
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>> On Jul 13, 2005, at 11:27 AM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote:
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>>>> Likewise, would it be very difficult to have an option ensure that
>>>> when an entry is typed in,  characters that are entered in upper  
>>>> case
>>>> are automatically wrapped in protective braces?
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>>> That could be useful, but once again you might have problems with  
>>> math characters.  Anyone else have thoughts on the pro/con of this?
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>> There was a thread about this a couple of days ago.  Putting upper  
>> case characters in braces is totally non-standard and can  
>> potentially cause problems (unless it is a proper noun, chemical  
>> formula, etc).
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> Correct.  For something like this to work, you'd have to be in the  
> habit of typing all lowercase unless you explicitly want  
> uppercase.  This is actually what I do, since I'm a lazy typist and  
> the bibstyle will take care of it anyway.

Well, mostly. Some words are only *sometimes* capitalized in  
"headline-style" capitalization, e.g., "be," "up," "is," and "it,"  
according to the Chicago Manual of Style, which I don't think BibTeX  
checks for properly. So I try to enter headline-style capitalization.