Christiaan, thanks so much!  That's perfect!  Does exactly what I needed!

Now I have one more question:  Is there a way to trigger the same script
for "Booktitle fields?"
For incollections that inherit that from a crossref it's obviously changed
but I have some incollections that are not crossref'd so there I'd need to
update the booktitle field in an extra step.

Thanks a ton!

Jan




On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Sorry, I don’t know what happened, I am sure I added that function, and
> the support for it is in it. I have fixed that now, you can re-downlaod
> them and it should really be there.
>
> Christiaan
>
>
> On Oct 15, 2015, at 6:26, Jan David Hauck <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Christiaan,
>
> Thanks so much for taking the time to do this!
> But it seems you didn't update the “Capitalize" script library on the
> website?  I re-downloaded the "allscripts" folder but the Capitalize script
> contained there doesn't have that capitalizeOrProtect that you mention.  Or
> am I missing something?
>
> Jan
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 7:23 PM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Oct 14, 2015, at 15:13, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Oct 14, 2015, at 14:17, Jan David Hauck <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I have a (hopfully) quick question regarding fixing titles for some of my
>> BibDesk entries:
>> When I started using BibDesk I hadn't figured out yet the best way to
>> store my titles and I would like to now fix it.
>>
>> And I want to make sure that I don't mess it up this time, so if I could
>> get some feedback from some of the more savvy folks out there, if what I
>> thought doing actually works, I'd highly appreciate it.
>>
>> So I used to store them in Sentence case with the exception of the Words
>> that should always be capitalized.  For example:
>> The crystal forest: Notes on the ontology of Amazonian spirits
>>
>> However, based on some recommendations out there, I have sinced changed
>> to storing them like this in Title case with always capitalized words
>> protected:
>> The Crystal Forest: Notes on the Ontology of {Amazonian} Spirits
>>
>> Now, depending on the bib style I use, I can either keep the
>> capitalization or convert it to Sentence case but without  losing the
>> capitalization for names etc.
>>
>> Now I'd like to fix my first half of entries so that they resemble this
>> pattern.
>> Hence I thought running a script that adds braces around already
>> capitalized words (except beginning of line, and after full stop or colon)
>> and then running one of the capitalize to sentence case scripts.  Would
>> that work?  And if so how?
>>
>> I tried the "Protect titles" script and the "Add Protect string" but
>> couldn't really figure out how to get them to work the way I want.  Any
>> help is greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jan
>>
>>
>> Yes, that could basically work. To get an idea on how to write that
>> script you may have a look at my capitalization scripts on the Wiki (you
>> seem to already have found them), like the Capitalize.scpt. Unfortunately
>> what you want is not directly supported by those script. I attached a
>> modified version that was sent to me by another user that I think does do
>> what you want. The Protect scripts don’t really do what you want. They are
>> based on building and using a list of words you always want to put braces
>> around, which is not the thing you want to do.
>>
>> Christiaan
>>
>> <Capitalize.scpt>
>>
>>
>> I have updated my scripts on the Wiki. The “Capitalize" script library
>> now contains a function capitalizeOrProtect that should do what you want.
>> the new script "Capitalize and Auto Protect Titles” uses that, and should
>> do exactly what you want.
>>
>> Christiaan
>>
>
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