A check to see if:
a)The first two letters of an author's first name are both capitalized
and
b)The first name is only two letters long
Would do this, although this should be done in AppleScript, not in
BibDesk, as it's a pretty specialized "cleanup" check, and would break
in cases of other mis-formatted first names (e.g., an all-caps first
name two characters long)
Something like this should work:
property uppercaseLetters :
"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÆŒØÁÀÂÄÃÅÇÉÈÊËÍÌÎÏÑÓÒÔÖÕÚÙÛÜŸ"
tell application "BibDesk"
-- set allFields to all fieldnames
set theSelPubs to the selection of document 1
repeat with thePub in theSelPubs
set theAuthors to the authors of thePub
set newAuthors to ""
repeat with iAuthor from 1 to count of theAuthors
set theAuthor to author iAuthor of thePub
set fullName to the full name of theAuthor
if character 1 of fullName is in uppercaseLetters and
character 2
of fullName is in uppercaseLetters and character 3 of fullName is " "
then
set fullNameLen to length of fullName
set fullName to character 1 of fullName & ". "
& character 2 of
fullName & "." & characters 3 through fullNameLen of fullName
if newAuthors is "" then
set newAuthors to fullName
else
set newAuthors to newAuthors & " and "
& fullName
end if
end if
end repeat
set value of field "author" of thePub to newAuthors
end repeat
end tell -- Bibdesk
As you can probably tell, this is very kludgey, but should do what
you're looking for.
-AHM
On 2007-12-17, at 6:34 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
> No, because there is no logical way to distinguish two initials put
> together and a single first name. I always have believed medical
> sciences have made a stupid mistake using such weird name formats.
>
> Christiaan
>
> On 17 Dec 2007, at 3:18 PM, Tobias Witting wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I hope this is not a completely dumb question:
>>
>> I just came across the following problem: when authors have double
>> initials i.e. H. W. Test and the authorlist in BibTeX is formatted as
>> HW Test rather than H. W. Test only the first initial is displayed in
>> the LaTeX output. google scholar tends to produce such bibtex.
>>
>> Is there any automated way of checking the bibtex database in BibDesk
>> checking for this and possibly reformatting it?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Tobias
>>
>
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