RefDB + Bibtex +URLs + chapter + booktitle + incollection

Dear Markus

I have encountered the following issues whilst using refdb for bibtex. 
Now, I had a go at changing refdb myself but it was getting a bit 
timeconsuming so I hope you can help me out with my problems.

I hope we haven't been talking about these issues before - I've had a 
browse through our past mails and I think these are all new ones.

Thanks
Damien Jade Duff


(1)

Is there any way to get a URL field in the bibtex results?

I particularly want it for my ELEC entries. Maybe it would be useful to 
put on into the bibtex entries wherever a url exists (I'm not sure about 
that though).

I can't figure out how to do this change in backend-bibtex.c: I found a 
subroutine to extract a url from a database result structure but I think 
the results structure being used in backend-bibtex.c does not contain 
the url from the database.


(2)

The @INBOOK bibtex citation type requires a CHAPTER rather than a TITLE 
field and a TITLE rather than a BOOKTITLE field - the three levels here are:
1. CHAPTER
2. TITLE
3. SERIES

e.g.
--------FROM http://web.reed.edu/cis/help/BibTeX.html------------------
For a chapter or part of a book:
@inbook {DoyleOwl:2003a, <--This is the Label, and type of citation
Author = {Doyle Owl},    <--Author Field
Title = {Reed in Space}, <--Title Field
Chapter= {Chapter 7: New Frontier},
Pages= {350-450},        <--Chapter Title and Page Number Field
Publisher = {Macmillan}  <--Publisher Field
Year = {2003}}           <--Year Field
-----------------------------------------------------------------------


(3)

The @BOOK bibtex citation type also requires a TITLE rather than a 
BOOKTITLE field.

It's a bit confusing admittedly because @INPROCEEDINGS does use BOOKTITLE.

--------FROM http://web.reed.edu/cis/help/BibTeX.html------------------
@book{DoyleOwl:2004,      <--This is the Label, and type of citation
Author = {Doyle Owl},     <--Author Field
Title = {My Life},        <--Title Field
Publisher = {Reed Press}, <--Publisher Field
Year = {2004}}            <--Year Field
-----------------------------------------------------------------------


(4)

In the @INBOOK citation type, I think an editor is not required but in 
an @INCOLLECTION citation type it is important.

This is problematic for me because if I call something a "CHAP" 
presently it's coming out as @INBOOK and the bibtex formatter is 
ignoring the editor field if one exists.

So I think we need to find ways of distinguishing between citations that 
are parts of books that are collections and citations that are parts of 
books that aren't. I think a good piece of logic would be to check if 
there is a different Part and Publication author (i.e. check if the work 
has an editor) - if the citation has an editor then it can be an 
@INCOLLECTION otherwise an @INBOOK.


(P.S.)
P.S. I'm using the latest prerelease 0.9.7pre5. In order to compile it I 
disabled the building of the manuals because it wanted "fop" and I don't 
have it. I could never figure all that xml stuff out.


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