Re: changing default key for pybliographer

This thread is a bit old now, but I only got around to trying this recently.

To recap:

I am trying to change how the default 'key' is generated without
modifying the base pybliographer install files... that is, I want to
run the system installed version, but redefine some things using files
in my home directory (since this is a shared machine).

I can use my own pybrc.py file if I want, and whatever is in .pybrc.py
(note the "dot") is also executed.

I was trying to replace the functionality contained in (on my system)
/usr/share/pybliographer/Pyblio/Utils.py with a new version by
changing the "generate_key" function and then redefining that in
.pybrc.py etc.)  That didn't seem to work though, and I have since
noticed that there are other key-generating functions contained in
various files in /usr/share/pybliographer/Pyblio/Style/

So, I guess my first question to get started is: Which key generating
function is used when I am running pybliographic and add a new entry
(without manually specifying the key)?  Maybe this depends on some
other settings?

If I know which function I need to change then I can start working on
properly redefining that through some files in my home directory.

Thanks,

Scott

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:57:51 -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko
<[email protected]> wrote:
> *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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