On 21.06.2012 20:38, Morten Omholt Alver wrote:
> On 20 June 2012 17:03, Sebastian Meyer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I just realized that the @STRING declarations in my bibfile are not
>> exported to the subdatabase generated with JabRef based on an AUX file,
>> which results in an invalid subdatabase.
>>
>> The corresponding command line command is
>> jabref --nogui --aux=report.aux,report.bib literature.bib
>> where report.bib is a subdatabase of literature.bib
>>
>> Searching for this issue I discovered the JabRef bug report with ID
>> 2357299 from 2008-11-28:
>> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2357299&group_id=92314&atid=600306
>>
>>
>> It seems that this old bug report has been overlooked until now, because
>> the problem still persists with the current version 2.8 of JabRef. I
>> would appreciate if this could be fixed, because it makes the
>> subdatabase functionality useless when working with strings.
>>
>> A rapid solution would be to just copy all of the strings to the
>> subdatabase, ignoring for the moment that not all of them might be used
>> therein; but at least the resulting subdatabase would then be valid.
>
> Hi,
>
> thank you for reporting this! We'll have to put it on the to do list -
> I was about to say that you could copy-paste the strings as a
> workaround, but that doesn't seem to be possible either. I don't use
> strings myself, so I haven't been aware of these shortcomings.
>
Hi again,
yes of course, it is a workaround to copy the strings by hand to the
subdatabase. I actually wrote a small recipe in a makefile which does
this job. here is the essential part in case anyone needs inspiration:
# generate subdatabase from literatur.bib according to powerlaw.aux
# Unfortunately, jabref -aux does not include the @STRING declarations
# so I copy them manually
report.bib: literature.bib report.aux
jabref --nogui --aux=report.aux,$@ $<
egrep "^@STRING{[^}]+}}$$" $< | cat - $@ > [email protected]
mv [email protected] $@
but of course this is not how it should be.
Thanks for considering this issue on the todo list.
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