Re: [Jabref-users] Author's bibliography

[Thomas A. <th...@ar...>]

This is not a complete solution to you problem, but maybe I can point 
you in some helpful directions, see below.

cirereta wrote:
> Morten,
>
> yup, you got that right, I guess that each poem or story should be 
> marked as a keyword to then be able to look up all entries containing 
> a given keyword and display the entry number(s) related to that 
> keyword.  Alas, my Java programming knowledge is nil and I don't any 
> expert on this field. How long would it take for an expert to write 
> such a specialized export filter? You know, if I have to convince 
> someone, they might want something in exchange, which is only normal.
Another option could be to use biblatex to format the bibliography in 
LaTeX. BibTeX bibliographies are typically used in LaTeX documents; are 
you familiar with LaTeX? There is a package, biblatex, for LaTeX which 
is very customisable in terms of what to display how etc. Maybe that 
package could be used  to define such a listing of your entries. I don't 
know the details myself, but I am sure someone on the comp.text.tex 
usenet newsgroup could be helpful figuring it out.
>
> I have yet another doubt; when creating a new entry for, say, a 
> magazine publication, would it be wise to list all the poems in the 
> "contents" field or would it be wiser to repeat the entry as many 
> times as poems contained in the magazine? For instance, see below:
>
> [Entry 333 - a magazine]: /South and West /22.1, Sept. 1965. Susan 
> Abbott, ed.
> South and West: Fort Worth, TX.
> [contents]: "too dark", "no future", "bright sunny day", "sun coming 
> down"
>
> Would you create an entry for the magazine /South and West /and then 
> list the four poems in the "contents" field, or would you create the 
> entry for the magazine four times, listing a single poem each time? 
> I'm not sure this makes much sense, but I thought that listing all 
> poem titles in the "contents" field might be problematic somehow.
If you want four different entries, in this example, you could just 
create one entry for the magazine itself (lets call that a 'magazine' 
entry? I don't think that is standard; I think 'periodical' is a 
standard entry type.) Then create one entry for each poem (a 'poem' 
entry? Maybe more standard entry types such as 'inbook' or 
'incollection' could be useful.) Then in each poem entry, specify the 
reference for the magazine entry in the 'crossref' field. Then BibTeX 
will get the common data, such as magazine title etc., from the magazine 
entry for each of the poems. That way you don't have to type the 
magazine name etc. into each of the poem entries.
>
> thanks!
> abel
Thomas Arildsen