I will add a separate preference option to control whether to overwrite existing cite keys.
Christiaan > On 17 May 2023, at 05:04, M. Tamer Özsu via Bibdesk-users > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry, I missed that question from Christiaan. In my case, I autogenerate the > cite key, but then want to prefix it with the abbreviation of the name of the > conference or journal where it appeared. The hacky way I do it is to open the > .bib file after I autogenerate the cite key and just prepend the > abbreviation. Then I import them into the master file. Old habit and it makes > it easier to search for venues. > > I suppose I could revise the “add keyword” script to do this all within > BibDesk - but I don’t know how to refer to the cite key. Hence the hacky > workflow. > > ==Tamer > >> On May 16, 2023, at 10:57 PM, Adam R. Maxwell via Bibdesk-users >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On May 16, 2023, at 15:12 , Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Just wondering, why would you not want to auto-generate the cite key when >>> adding? >> >> If you have a master .bib file and create smaller ones as needed by >> project/report/topic/etc, it makes sense that you'd want the same citekeys >> in both files. At least, I think that was the rationale for not generating a >> new citekey for an item when copying/dragging (unless it had empty or >> default citekey)? >> >> -- adam >> _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
