On 2008-01-04, at 12:33 PM, Ingrid Giffin wrote: > <snip> >>>> >>>> The 'authors' are actually editors but that's how it came from >>>> the Library search. If I move them to the editor field and >>>> create a 'child' of one of the chapters, it fills in the Title >>>> with 'Religion in republican Italy' and leaves Booktitle blank. >>>> I can't change the Title because of the cross-reference. >>> >>> I have had this happen too: The parent title goes into the >>> crossref child's >>> title rather than into the booktitle. >>> >>> Is the parent title supposed to be in its booktitle field instead? >>> This I >>> suppose is logical but counterintuitive, since I think of the >>> title field as >>> being the default, and only think of the overarching booktitle >>> when children >>> come into play, sometimes after the fact. >> >> You did search the help, right? >> >> http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/manual/BibDesk%20Help_72.html >> >> http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/FAQ#I_don.27t_get_what_the_Cross >> ref_field_does_.2F_I_don. >> 27t_think_the_way_BibDesk_handles_Crossrefs_is_very_s >> mart._Couldn.27t_that_be_changed.3F > > > Well, I actually had read that help section several times, but > hadn't been > able to make sense of it. This is sort of working for me now, but > when title > gets copied to booktitle in the parent item, the title field is not > cleared. > Then the child item ends up with the parent title in two fields > also. I > guess you have to manually clear the title field in the parent item > before > creating the child. > > --Ingrid Giffin
You actually don't want to clear the title field, because if you cite just the book, BibTeX looks for the 'title' field rather than the 'booktitle' field. -AHM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
