On 1/4/08 1:41 PM, "Alexander H. Montgomery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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_Cro >>> ss 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 Makes sense. Thanks. But then why does the child item copy both title and booktitle? The title will always need to be replaced by the child's specific title--at least this has been the rule in my use. Thanks, Ingrid ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
