Re: bibtex @string aliases and pybliographic

> I'm willing to handle my existing bibtex files with pybliographer. I
> used to have a seperate file with all the author names, looking like
> this :
>
> @string{and             = " and "}
> @string{xiong           = "Xiong, Youlun"}
> @string{sanger          = "Sanger, D."}
> @string{kerr            = "Kerr, D."}
>
> and another one with the actual bib refs.
>
> @Article{xiong93-geometric_modelling_of_bounded_and_frictional_grasps,
>   author =       xiong#and#sanger#and#kerr,
>   title =        {Geometric. modelling of bounded and frictional grasps},
>   journal =      {Robotica},
>   year =         1993,
>   volume =       11,
>   pages =        {185-192}
> }
>
> Can I keep this way of doing with pybliographic, or should I merge
> them ?

pyblio won't support a bibtex db split over several files, so you need
to merge them. It will then properly handle the string substitutions,
but won't give you any help in using / updating them (there are a
couple of hacks around this, but they are far from making it seamless)

-- 
Frédéric

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