On Jan 18, 2015, at 4:35, Jan David Hauck wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I have two quick questions for creating a template.
>
> (1)
> Is there a way to tell BibDesk to check whether two fields have the same
> value?
>
No.
> If some book is translated and edited by the same person the Chicago Manual
> of Style recommends using:
> "Translated and edited by ..."
>
> Is there a way to modify this:
> <$persons.Translator?>Translated by
> <$persons.Translator.name.stringByRemovingTeX.stringByAppendingFullStopAndSpaceIfNotEmpty.@componentsJoinedByCommaAndAnd/></$persons.Translator?><$editors?>Edited
> by
> <$editors.name.stringByRemovingTeX.stringByAppendingFullStopAndSpaceIfNotEmpty.@componentsJoinedByCommaAndAnd/></$editors?>
>
> so that it checks first whether the translator and editor fields are
> identical and then prints that field
>
> < ??? >Translated and edited by
> <$persons.Translator.name.stringByRemovingTeX.stringByAppendingFullStopAndSpaceIfNotEmpty.@componentsJoinedByCommaAndAnd/>
> < ??? >
>
> (2)
> What is the correct syntax for printing the date a URL is accessed. I have it
> in a separate field Urldate formatted as YYYY-MM-DD and would like to print
> it as January 17, 2015.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jan
There is no way to parse strings as dates in a template, so you should make
sure your field is in the syntax you want to include.
Christiaan
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