My understanding is that you can set the file or pdf fields explicitly (actually, that is what I have been doing for years). If you are good enough to keep the file names the exact same as the key, then you can get jabref to auto-fill in the field.
As a note, once I added \: to Preference's Replace Regular Expression, it stripped it out, BUT it also did not include the next character -- so if I told it to use three characters from the abbreviation it only uses two. hope that helps, EBo -- On Nov 12 2012 2:29 PM, Mark Dalphin wrote: > I wonder about the use of certain characters in the BibTeX name as > they are the names used to create the file names when linking to > papers. The use of a COLON would mess up processing under Windows and > I can think of several characters I would wish to exclude under Linux > including many common characters used under LaTeX. > > Does this mean that the linkage name to PDF papers should be filtered > somehow? Or should the BibTeX name be compatible with common file > naming conventions? > > Just my $0.02. > > Cheers, > Mark > > Morten Omholt Alver wrote: >> >> On 12 November 2012 18:30, Oscar Gustafsson <osc...@isy.liu.se >> <mailto:osc...@isy.liu.se>> wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> I'm responsible for, if not generating, at least changing the >> code >> such that a ':' is not removed from the key. >> >> The reason has to do the the IEEEtran.BST which has an example >> of >> the IEEEtranBSTCTRL entry type in the manual with a ':' in the >> key. As I added support for it, I also removed the filtering of >> ':' not to confuse users. >> >> Are there any particular reason for filtering out the ':'? I can >> see the point in not generating a key with it though (as in your >> example, although one can probably argue if there should be a >> space before the ':', which absence indirectly would have solved >> the issue). >> >> >> I couldn't find any list of disallowed characters in BibTeX keys at >> the moment, but a test shows that BibTeX accepts : in the key, so I >> don't see any reason to filter it out. >> >> -- Morten >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. >> Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics >> Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Jabref-users mailing list >> Jabref-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jabref-users >> > > -- > > > > Mark Dalphin Ph.D. > > Director of Bioinformatics > > mark.dalp...@pacificedge.co.nz > <mailto:mark.dalp...@pacificedge.co.nz> > *Ph:* +64-3-479-5805 > *Cell:* +64-21-156-7625 > *Skype:* mark.dalphin.pel > <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pacific-Edge/111356775582456> > <http://twitter.com/#%21/pacificEdgeLtd> > <http://www.youtube.com/PacificEdgeLtd> > > 87 St David St, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand > 9016www.pacificedge.co.nz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Jabref-users mailing list Jabref-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jabref-users
