Re: [Ebib-users] multiple keywords fields in bib files

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

Hi Abel,

> I'm OK reading bib files with multiple keywords entries applying the
> ebib-find-bibtex-fields you've sent me. 
> 
> Some systems at present produce this kind of output -Connotea and Zotero at
> least. Certainly such files don't seem to be well formatted -as you've
> suggested before-. 
> 
> Just an idea as an ebib user, could this feature be optional in a future
> release? I mean having the choice of reading bib files with multiple
> keywords fields if necessary. What do you think?

Right now, I'm thinking about a good way to implement it. The way I've done
it in the function I sent you is to simply test for each field that is read
whether it already exists. I don't really like that, because it slows down
the loading of a bib file, and it is unnecessary most of the time. Even if
it's a user-configurable option, the most straight-forward implementation
would require a test for every field being read.

So I'm trying to think of a way to implement it without causing too much
extra overhead if the option is switched off. That shouldn't be impossible.

-- 
Joost Kremers
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