solution for generating a new key is found

Dear all,

we are using now a new type of the key for our bibtex databases that is 
formatted the following way:

Author.journalYY where Author - is the last name of the first author, 
journal - is the abbreviation of the journal title in lowercase letters 
(i.e. Evoluton = e, Theoretical Population Biology = tpb, etc) and YY 
are the last two digits of the year of publication.
Here is the script to be put in .pybrc.py for the generation of this key.

def generate_key_new_journal (entry, table):
 

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

     if entry.has_key ('journal') : journal = entry ['journal'].text
     else: journal = ''
 

     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, '')
 

         tempjournal = split (journal, ' ')
         if tempjournal == '': tempjournal = journal
 

         journal = ''
 

         for a in tempjournal:
            journal = journal + a[0]
 

         journal = journal.lower()
 

         key = key + "." + journal
        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', 'Author.journalYY', generate_key_new_journal)


To change keys in your bibtex database to this one do the following

1. save your bibtex database in refer format (make sure that exporting 
format of pybliographic has no entry in variable %F)
2. import the refer database back into pybliographic and save it as bibtex.

Vitaly

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