Re: Producing modified bibtex output.

Hi Joe,

Quoting Josef Karthauser <[email protected]>:

> I want to add an extra field to each bibtex record, called 'EPRINT'
> which would carry the value of one of the refdb tags (although I'm not
> sure which one yet), perhap the UR.
>
> How do I go about doing this?  Is it a modification to the style xml
> file, or do I need to hack code?
>

The mapping of RIS fields to bibtex fields during data export is  
currently hard-wired. UR and L1-L4 are being exported as "URL = {}"  
entries. Some fields, most notably M1-M3 and U1-U5 are currently  
ignored (which is not a good thing).

I believe the mapping of RIS fields to bibtex tags should remain  
hard-wired on the server side, as RefDB is designed as a multi-user  
system. The tag names could then be fixed on the client side using sed  
as every user sees fit.

Support for U1-U5 could be added in no time if it is ok to export them  
to the pseudo-bibtex fields U1-U5 (which you could then change on the  
client side to something meaningful). I've been reluctant to export  
M1-M3 because their contents depend on the reference type. I'm  
currently in the process of disentangling these along the lines of the  
proposed rbib data format (see  
http://refdb.sourceforge.net/rbib.html). I'm not going to switch to an  
internal rbib representation in 0.9.9 yet, but some features are  
likely to get implemented anyway. This holds true for the M1-M3 fields  
which will be split into several fields according to their true  
meaning. Once that is implemented, it will be a snap to export them  
properly to bibtex.

regards,
Markus

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Markus Hoenicka
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