[Refdb-users] why discarding mnemonic keys (BibTeX,DocBook)?

[Markus H. <hoe...@co...>]

Hi,

there are two issues:

1) bib2ris should indeed not silently drop the mnemonic keys. This is
my oversight as I never use them. The short-term fix will be to import
them into the U5 field like the ID field of RIS datasets.

2) What you apparently ask for is a slighly different question:
whether RefDB should be able to use mnemonic keys where it now uses
IDs. I guess it should, but this is simply not yet implemented. This
feature needs a few changes throughout the RefDB source and will take
longer to implement.

I'll bump the priority of this issue a bit up in my list, but if you
beat me with a patch I'll consider it, of course :-)

regards,
Markus

Herkenrath writes:
 >  
 > Hello,
 > I understand that a ID number is necessary
 > (primary database key).
 > I have, however, to manage several BibTeX
 > databases with 1000+ entries
 > and I wonder why RefDB discards the mnemonic keys
 > during import (bib2ris). Personally I can remember
 > these keys much better when
 > writing a paper than ID numbers.

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