[Refdb-devel] Re: bib2ris spaces in author/editor names

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi Damien,

Damien Jade Duff <D.J...@cs...> was heard to say:

> becomes
>
>    AU  - Koza,JohnR.
>    AU  - Streeter,MatthewJ.
>    AU  - Keane,MartinA.
>
> I have tested a fix and it seems to work. I wonder if you would give it
> some oversight and update bib2ris.c for me.
>
> 00004:  $Id: bib2ris.c,v 1.13.2.2 2005/07/29 21:15:34 mhoenicka Exp $
>
> ...
>
> 01326: /*** <djd 20060412> */
> 01327:      if(j < ptr_partlist->part_len[BTN_FIRST]){
> 01328:		if (navail >= 1) {
> 01329:		  strcat(namestring, " ");
> 01330:		  navail--;
> 01331:		}
> 01332:		else {
> 01333:		  goto haveall;
> 01334:		}
> 01335:      }
> 01336: /*** </djd 20060412> */
>

I'll give it a try and update bib2ris.c asap.

> Incidentally, does your planned extension to RIS have a place to put
> author contact details?
>

I'm still contemplating. It seems more practical to associate the contact info
with an author rather than with a reference, but what if an author moves (which
isn't that rare, believe me :-( ). We'd need another table that holds all
contacts for a particular author and store the information which contact
applies in the reference.

> Also, how easy would it be for me to give bib2ris the ability to convert
> abstract and keyword information? (I believe these become N2 and KW
> fields in RIS)

It should be extremely easy (although I haven't tested this in ages). Simply add
something like:

nsf_abstract  N2
nsf_keyword  KW

to your ~/.bib2risrc, assuming that you use "ABSTRACT" and "KEYWORD" in your
bibtex data to denote abstracts and keywords, respectively. See also:

http://refdb.sourceforge.net/manual/sect-bibtoris.html

for some additional hints.

regards,
Markus

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