On Apr 5, 2010, at 1:41, Christiaan Hofman wrote:

> 
> On Apr 5, 2010, at 0:59, Stefan Groth wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Apr 4, 2010, at 3:47, Stefan Groth wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I am currently working on an export template for BibDesk for the AAA style 
>>>> (http://www.aaanet.org/publications/style_guide.pdf) and having troubles 
>>>> with the author-output for coauthored books. The AAA style suggests the 
>>>> format 
>>>> 
>>>> Lee, Namhee, Lisa Mikesell, and Anna Dina L. Joaquin
>>>> 
>>>> The string I am using is
>>>> 
>>>> <$pubauthors.normalizedname.stringbyremovingt...@componentsjoinedbycommaandandwithetalafterthree/>
>>>> 
>>>> which outputs
>>>> 
>>>> Lee, Namhee, Mikesell, Lisa, and Joaquin, Anna Dina L.
>>>> 
>>>> whereas I need
>>>> 
>>>> Lee, Namhee, Lisa Mikesell, and Anna Dina L. Joaquin
>>>> 
>>>> How is it possible to achieve a different format for the second author 
>>>> name? 
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Stefan
>>> 
>>> Style guides really keep amaze me about their weird recommendations. I 
>>> wonder in which worlds these guys are living. 
>>> 
>>> Anyeay, you can get what you want using something like the following (I did 
>>> not include the stringByRemovingTeX, and be aware of newlines added by 
>>> mailing):
>>> 
>>> <[email protected]/><$autho...@count<2?><?$autho...@count?>,
>>>  and 
>>> <[email protected].@componentsJoinedByCommaAndAnd/></$autho...@count?>
>>> 
>>> Christiaan
>> 
>> Christiaan,
>> thanks a lot. What you suggested results in
>> 
>>      Lee, Namhee, and Lisa Mikesell, Anna Dina L. Joaquin
>> 
>> Is there a way to get
>> 
>>      Lee, Namhee, Lisa Mikesell, and Anna Dina L. Joaquin?
>> 
> 
> Yes, using more condition tags based on autho...@count, for instance like 
> this:
> 
> <$authors.normalizedna...@firstobject/><$autho...@count=0?>
> <$autho...@count=1?>
> <?$autho...@count=2?>
>  and <$authors.na...@secondobject/><?$autho...@count=3?>
> , <$authors.na...@secondobject/>, and 
> <$authors.na...@thirdobject/><?$autho...@count?>
> , <$authors.na...@secondobject/>, <$authors.na...@thirdobject/>, et 
> al.</$autho...@count?>
> 
> BTW, you should use "authors", not "pubAuthors". 
> 
>> And, to avoid such rather boring questions, is there a better documentation 
>> for template keys than the list provided in the BibDesk-wiki?
>> 
>> Stefan
> 
> No.
> 
> Christiaan
> 

Actually, there's the Help, but it's not that much different.

Christiaan

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