On 8 May 2008, at 5:12 PM, Josh wrote:

> Hi,
>
> my name is Josh, and I just moved from Linux to MacOSX Leopard.  
> Before I
> used Jabref, but BibDesk just seems to a much better choice. Having a
> large bibtex file already, I had Jabref automatically generate my
> bibtex-keys. Let me show the differences with an example:
>
> Jabref:      Hulse2004Structureandfunction
> BibDesk:  Hulse2004Structure-and-function-of-evolved
>
> Although in both cases I configured to use the first 3 words of the
> title. Two things I would like to ask:
>
> 1. Can I convince BibDesk not to use the "-" which is undesirable with
> the editor that i use. Autocompletion only works until the end of a
> word, not including "-"
>

No, that's not supported. All the rules are listed in the appendix in  
the Help.

> 2. Can i convince BibDesk to count every word, so that my bibtex  
> file is
> compatible with my old papers?
>
> Thank in advance,
> Josh

Yes, use "%T[0]".

Christiaan


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