Re: [Ebib-users] book fields crossrefed to incollection

[Joost K. <joo...@fa...>]

Hi Thomas,

> When adding the cross reference field to an incollection entry, the
> title of the book ends up in the title field, rather than the booktitle
> field.  I looked for a way to change this through the customize menu,
> but couldn't find it.  Is there a way to have the book title cross
> referenced correctly?

No, there isn't... The crossref mechanism is rather simplistic: it simply looks
for the contents of field of the same name as the x-reffing entry. The main
reason for that is that BibTeX does it that way. It doesn't read the title field
of the x-reffed entry when it needs to fill the booktitle field of the x-reffing
entry.

Note, though, that it is possible to copy the contents of a x-reffed field. So
in a situation like this, you can simply go to the title field, hit 'c', go to
the booktitle field and hit 'y'.

It shouldn't be difficult to have Ebib do this automatically, though. If I find
some time, I'll have a look at it.

Best,

Joost


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