On Sep 4, 2011, at 13:33 , Christiaan Hofman wrote: > On Sep 4, 2011, at 19:16, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > > Though for existing items you can also use the menu action.
Thanks, I totally forgot about that one :). >> Why are you using crossrefs, anyway? > > Basically what Adam is trying to say, I think, is that if you are not using > it for bibtex purposes you should not really have to bother with it. While if > you use it for bibtex purposes, then this is how bibtex works. Partly, yes. If all you want is a way to link references, there are better ways to do it. However, I think crossrefs are largely a waste of time these days, when we have searching/sorting/grouping to find related references, and autocompletion to help enter them consistently. IIRC the only other thing it does is add the @book as a separate reference in the printed bibliography, if you reference two or more items that crossref to it; I generally don't want that myself, but YMMV. As I recall, we mainly added crossref support for long-time BibTeX users, who wanted searching/sorting/display support for crossref children without modifying hundreds of citations. As with macros, it was a really complex engineering effort to add support in BibDesk and deal with all of the edge cases, especially without killing performance. It looks like biblatex has taken the simplistic BibTeX crossref scheme and added a bunch of special case field mappings per-type, which means that support in BibDesk is basically out of the question. IMNSHO, the better thing to do would have been to deprecate crossrefs, rather than add such a complicated bandaid. -- Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
