Re: changing default key for pybliographer

Yaroslav Halchenko <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.pybliographer
Message-ID <[email protected]>
*ravana[0] ~>grep '~' /usr/bin/pybliographer
sources.append (os.path.expanduser('~/.pybrc.py'))

So I believe you can (re)define some functionality there... but the
developers should know better about hooks for userdefined code

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 01:43:38PM -0700, Scott Webster wrote:
> Interesting... I thought of writing something like this myself
> (currently I just manually enter each Key).

> It would be nice if this was possible without editing the system wide
> pybliographer files though.  I guess I could just install everything
> in my home directory and edit it there, but that's kindof a pain.  Is
> there some other way to do this?

> Thanks,

> Scott

> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:45:17 +0100, david.evans-I9fZos/[email protected]
> <david.evans-I9fZos/[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,

> > I did something similar by writing a new function in Utils.py. Mine
> > makes AuthorBCDYY,
> > where Author is the surname of the first author,  B,C,D are the first
> > letters of the surnames of subsequent authors, and YY is the year.
> > It's probably an ugly hack by the standards of the developers, but it
> > works for me :)

> > Dave

> > def generate_key_new (entry, table):

> >     if   entry.has_key ('author'): aut = entry ['author']
> >     elif entry.has_key ('editor'): aut = entry ['editor']
> >     else:                          aut = ()

> >     if len (aut) == 0:
> >         global __entry
> >         key = 'entry-%d' % __entry
> >         __entry = __entry + 1
> >     else:
> >         honorific, first, last, lineage = aut [0].format ()
> >         key = join (split (last, ' '), '')
> >         nextkey = ''
> >         if len (aut) > 1:
> >             for a in aut:
> >                 honorific, first, last, lineage = a.format ()
> >                 nextkey = nextkey + join (map (lambda x:
> >                                        x [0], split (last, ' ')), '')
> >         nextkey = str (nextkey) [1:]
> >         key = key + join (nextkey, '')
> >         if entry.has_key ('date'):
> >             year = entry ['date'].year
> >             if year: key = key + str (year) [2:]

> >     base = _flat (key)
> >     key  = Key.Key (table, base)
> >     if table.has_key (key):
> >         suff = ord ('a')
> >         while table.has_key (key):
> >             suff = suff + 1
> >             if suff > ord ('z'):
> >                 suff = ord ('a')
> >                 base = base + 'a'
> >             key  = Key.Key (table, base + chr (suff))

> >     return Key.Key (table, key)
> > Autoload.register ('key', 'New', generate_key_new)

> > ---- Message from "Vitaly V. Ganusov" <[email protected]> at
> > 2004-10-22 09:53:34 ------


> > >Hi,

> > >I'm intensively using pybliographer (gui version) to keep my library
> > in
> > >the bibtex format. One feature that I would like to change is the
> > >default way of creating a key for each new entry. Currently,
> > >pybliographer creates the key taking one letter of last names of 3
> > first
> > >authors of the entry plus year and plus additional letters (a,b,c,
> > etc)
> > >if such entry already is present. I would like to have it such as
> > the
> > >key is the complete last name of the first author plus the year of
> > >publication (last two digits - as it is currently) and adding a,b,c
> > >(etc) if needed at the end.

> > >Do you know if this can be done by changing configuration files or
> > >somehow else?

> > >help is greatly appreciated

> > >Vitaly

> > >--
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> > >Emory University
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> > >USA
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