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

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Joost Kremers <joo...@fa...> writes:

> 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'.

Thanks Joost,

I hadn't thought to do it this way, which is quick and easy.

All the best,
Tom

>
> 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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