Use %p or %P instead of %a or %A which will print the editor if the author is absent. See: https://bibdesk.sourceforge.io/manual/BibDeskHelp_91.html
On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 12:48 PM Br. Samuel Springuel <rpspring...@gmail.com> wrote: > I use "First Author + : + Year + Sufficient Unique Letters" for my > cite-key format and for the most part this works out. However, when I > have a book which has a editor but no author, I end up having to > manually set the cite-key because of the empty author field. Is there a > way to tell BibDesk to use the first editor as a fall back (when the > author field is empty) for constructing a cite-key? > -- > ✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝ > Br. Samuel, OSB > (R. Padraic Springuel) > St. Anselm’s Abbey > 4501 South Dakota Ave, NE > Washington, DC, 20017 > 202-269-2300 > (c) 202-853-7036 > > PAX ☧ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ > > > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users >
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