[Jabref-devel] [Jabref-users] Extend Biblatex support

[Oliver Kopp]

Hello,

I want to extend the biblatex support of Jabref.

Good to hear. Currently, no one is working on Biblatex support.

The first step on my list is to implement the aliased entry fields in
biblatex. For example, if the 'journaltitle' is given then it also should be
displayed in the 'Journal' column in the big overview table.

I'm not using Biblatex. Is there really the concept of aliased fields? :)

Similarly, the
information in the 'date' field should be used to construct the bibtexkey
(i.e. extract the year).

This can be customized in Options/Preferenzes/BibTeX key generator.

[...] Then one only has to go through the thousands or so
usages of getField and decide if the new 'withAlias'-method should be
invoked instead. Any ideas on this?

Seems reasonable :)

After this is accomplished I would rework the BiblatexEntriesTypes (for
example, the year field is not required) and move the old bibtex fields
which possess an alias to a new tab 'Depreciated fields'.

OK.

Finally, the
cleanup method could be extended to convert an old entry to a new biblatex
entry.

Only in BibLaTeX mode, but sounds good!

Cheers,

Oliver

[Dominik Waßenhoven]

Hello,

Post by Oliver Kopp

The first step on my list is to implement the aliased entry fields in
biblatex. For example, if the 'journaltitle' is given then it also should be
displayed in the 'Journal' column in the big overview table.

I'm not using Biblatex. Is there really the concept of aliased fields? :)

Yes, there is indeed.

Post by Oliver Kopp

Similarly, the
information in the 'date' field should be used to construct the bibtexkey
(i.e. extract the year).

This can be customized in Options/Preferenzes/BibTeX key generator.

I think Tobias meant something different. The date field in biblatex has the format YYYY-MM-DD. It would be nice to have the year in the table view automatically using the YYYY part of the date field.

Best wishes,
Dominik.-

[Tobias Diez]

Thank you very much for your responses!
I implemented most of my ideas and created a pull-request on github. I would
appreciate if you could test it and send me your feedback.

Greets,
Tobias

Ps: Yes, I'm German ;-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Dominik Waßenhoven [mailto:***@users.sf.net]
Sent: Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014 10:56
To: jabref-***@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Tobias Diez; Oliver Kopp
Subject: Re: [Jabref-devel] [Jabref-users] Extend Biblatex support

Hello,

I would also appreciate better biblatex support in JabRef. Just some minor

Post by Oliver Kopp

The first step on my list is to implement the aliased entry fields in
biblatex. For example, if the 'journaltitle' is given then it also
should be displayed in the 'Journal' column in the big overview table.

I'm not using Biblatex. Is there really the concept of aliased fields? :)

Yes, there is indeed.

Post by Oliver Kopp

Similarly, the
information in the 'date' field should be used to construct the
bibtexkey (i.e. extract the year).

This can be customized in Options/Preferenzes/BibTeX key generator.

I think Tobias meant something different. The date field in biblatex has the
format YYYY-MM-DD. It would be nice to have the year in the table view
automatically using the YYYY part of the date field.

Best wishes,
Dominik.-


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