On Nov 10, 2007, at 4:10 AM, Simon Spiegel wrote:
>
> On 10.11.2007, at 09:55, Hendrik wrote:
>
>>>
>>> Something I noticed which no one seems to have mentioned yet: For
>>> some reason Google Scholar always gives the title in double curly
>>> parantheses, so that BibDesk ends importing. For example:
>>>
>>>
>>> @article{delany1970apf,
>>> Author = {Delany, ME and Bazley, EN},
>>> Date-Added = {2007-11-10 08:57:42 +0100},
>>> Date-Modified = {2007-11-10 08:57:42 +0100},
>>> Journal = {Applied Acoustics},
>>> Number = {2},
>>> Pages = {105--116},
>>> Title = {{Acoustical properties of fibrous absorbent materials}},
>>> Volume = {3},
>>> Year = {1970}}
>>>
>>> I realize that this an error on Google's side, but maybe such cases
>>> could be handled by the importer in general. I can't really think of
>>> a situations where one wants to have double parantheses.
>>>
>>
>> The double braces tell LaTeX to preserve the capitalization. So if
>> the
>> title in Google Scholar is capitalized correctly it will be correct
>> in
>> your references.
>
> Yeah, well, but in this case they're not capitalized correctly (at
> least according to the rules I know about capitalization of titles in
> English).
>
>> While this can be useful, I personally would also prefer it if the
>> BibDesk Scholar scraper would strip the extra set of braces.
>
> Anyone against this?
>
I am for it, if it means that this effectively ends the record. But
does it?
Regarding capitalization, I pretty much ignore whatever comes in, and
let the .bst file take care of it. My needs for caps change depending
on what the output is supposed to be.
-Adam G.
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