Adam,
Thanks for the info.
Did the H stand for humble or honest? 😂 - either way, you’re completely
correct, sometimes we are a bit anal about things in our workflow.
I also agree that the value of the cite key is in its uniqueness and should not
be used for grouping.
Question born of ignorance: is there any sort of cost to using that much
metadata in the cite key?
Cheers,
Jason
Sent from my phone; please pardon any communication catastrophes.
On Jul 23, 2018, at 1:30 PM, Adam R. Maxwell via Bibdesk-users
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
On Jul 23, 2018, at 11:10 AM, "Craggs, Jason G."
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
@ Christian, thanks for the information about the cite key. Just so I know, If
it’s not a field, how then is it stored?
It's stored as a separate attribute of an item, unlike the normal "foo = bar"
fields, but that's only part of the story. Conceptually, the value of a citekey
is in its uniqueness, which means that it should _not_ be groupable. In
general, any metadata embedded in the citekey is a less-readable duplicate of
the bibliography data itself, so there's no general reason to treat it like a
title/author/journal field.
The fact that people come up with easily-remembered schemes for creating a
citekey based on bibliography data is a holdover from the days before Services,
searching, and autocompletion, IMNSHO. Some of you people are way too anal
retentive about your citekey format and file attachment names.
-- adam
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