Edited book does not display editor in \cite completion
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#35 Edited book does not display editor in \cite completion
\cite completion does not show the editor for edited books (which only have an editor, no author field in the BIBTex entry); the attached patch to bibtools.py solves this. (I hope I haven't overlooked any patch, but googling for "editor", "edited" in connection with "latexsuite" etc. is quite hopeless, and I didn't find anything in the current git repository.)
Suggested change: If for a book no author is present, the editor is shown. (If neither author not editor is present, there's no help anyway; if both author and editor are present, that's either an error or a hack, and then author and editor should be the same.) -- For all other bibtypes, the editor is shown (after the author) if present.
Highlighting for the editor(s) is also added.
Patch to show editor in \cite completion
Just for the record:
"if both author and editor are present, that's either an error or a hack, and then author and editor should be the same." IIUC, that's not true: Francisco de Vitoria, Political Writings, edited by Anthony Pagden and Jeremy Lawrance. Cambridge UP, 1991 would be a case in point. Many similar cases exist.
That's true.
All BIBTeX styles I used flagged it with a warning[1]. Therefore I thought it was a built-in limitation of BIBTeX, but it seems to be programmed into the BSTs. Thank you for the correction!
Thus one should always show the editor if present?
[1] "can't use both author and editor fields in" returns 2800 hits on Google.
Patch to show editor in \cite completion (always, if present)
I attached an alternate patch: "Patch to show editor in \cite completion (always, if present)"
Cool! To be honest, I don't even know if any other tools, including bibtex/biblatex allow to handle this, but just thought I should mention that there are reasonable uses for both fields at the same time. Thanks for taking it into account.