On Jan 25, 2015, at 0:08, Jan David Hauck wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> my apologies for all the emails to the list, while figuring out my own
> project. I hope it'll be useful for someone else too. And many thanks to
> Christiaan and Jan Jakob for all the hints (now and in the past)! I hope
> this will be the last inquiry for a while.
>
> So at the risk of exhausting everyone's patience, just to follow up on the
> previous discussion four last additional questions:
>
> (1) First of all, is there a way to use Christiaan's Capitalize script
> (which does essentially what I want) not for actually changing the data but
> to copy a modified template to the clipboard? Jan Jakob posted a script
> here a while ago that does that for typographic quotation marks, and it
> should be possible to do that in a similar way for capitalization, but I'm a
> little lost how to start.
>
> (2)
> Concerning typographic quotation marks:
> I realized that whenever I enter a typographic quotation mark into a field
> BibDesk automatically translates it into ` or ' and `` or ''. Is there a way
> (via template or script or whatever) to have BibDesk translate them into
> typographic ones for display in the Preview window?
> (I had asked a similar question before, but I was wondering, since characters
> with diacritics are also stored in the file in actual Tex Format, but
> displayed by BibDesk in the field [and hence in the template] normally, maybe
> there is a specific format in which to store quotation marks so that they
> behave the same?)
>
> (3)
> This is not directly BibDesk related, but maybe one of the experts here has
> an idea nonetheless:
> Most of what I write has to be in either Chicago or AAA style, and although
> they are fairly similar there is one crucial difference in that Chicago
> encloses Article and Chapter titles in quotation marks while AAA does not.
> And in Chicago quotation marks that are embedded within quotation marks are
> converted to ‘single’ quotation marks.
> So now I have a problem if the Title of a given article already has a word or
> phrase in quotation marks, how to convert those quotation marks to single
> quotation marks without changing the entry since for my other style I need
> them as they were.
> Author. 1995. “Here is a ‘term’ in quotation marks.” ... <= Chicago style
> Author. 1995. Here is a “term” in quotation marks. ... <= AAA style
> I'm probably looking for something that behaves like the \emph{} in Tex but
> for quotation marks ...
> Any ideas?
>
> (4)
> Speaking of \emph{}. Is there a way to have a BibDesk template actually use
> Tex markers that are in the fields? I.e., put \emph{} enclosed terms in
> italics and the like.
>
> (I know I could very easily do this by simply displaying the template using
> Tex, but I am creating a database for my fiancee who doesn't have Tex but
> wants to use BibDesk nonetheless. Hence all these question that would be
> easier to achieve by using Tex directly.)
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Jan D.
There is some very basic interpretation of some tex commands. But it is very
limited, and don't count on too much. We cannot provide a full tex interpreter,
which is a very complex program. IIRC you cannot convert (double) quotations
(only from special to TeX compatible. This is not even well defined, as there
are many different double and single quotation marks. It certainly cannot be
done in a way as complex as (3). Also, (1) will never work because there is no
way to know what part of some random text is a title and what is not (note that
any post processing comes after the text has been generated). So I am afraid
the answer to all your questions is no.
Christiaan
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