[OS X TeX] converting crossref - getting OT

[Alex Hamann]

Am 22.07.2007 um 17:30 schrieb Adam R. Maxwell:

>
> On Jul 22, 2007, at 08:05, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
>
>> On Jul 22, 2007, at 7:50 AM, Alex Hamann wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a number of incollection entries in my bibliography which  
>>> have been created with crossrefs.
>>> Now I ran into the problem that jurabib.bst offers a certain  
>>> formating options for incollection items which apparently do not  
>>> work if there is a crossref (I am referring to the edby option).  
>>> Is there an easy way to convert all the incollections with  
>>> crossrefs to incollections without crossrefs? Just deleting the  
>>> crossref field for all of them will not do it since that will  
>>> cause the loss of the information from the parent item.
>>>
>>
>> This sounds like something that a search and replace with regular  
>> expressions should be able to do easily, but since I don't know  
>> how the entries before and after the conversion should look like I  
>> can't really offer more precise suggestions. Could you post some  
>> "before" and "after" examples?
>
> You'd need to do it with AppleScript, since the child item only has  
> a pointer (crossref) to its parent for certain fields.  So you can  
> have

Sorry for taking up the opportunity to ask a completely OT question:  
All you AppleScript wizards out there: is there a good (free)  
tutorial you'd recommend to a beginner? (I know there are some on the  
internet but I'd like to hear some first hand experience)

alex

>
> @proceedings{bigconference2006,
> 	Editor = {Freely, Ivan P.},
> 	Organization = {Very Little Organization (VLO)},
> 	Title = {Big Conference},
> 	Year = {2006}}
>
> @inproceedings{beer:2006,
> 	Author = {Beer, Anita},
> 	Booktitle = {Big Conference},
> 	Crossref = {bigconference2006},
> 	Title = {This is an example}}
>
> which BibTeX/LaTeX will display as:
>
> Beer, A. (2006). This is an example. In Freely (2006).
> Freely, I. P., editor (2006). Big Conference. Very Little  
> Organization (VLO).
>
> In this contrived example, you'd need to copy the editor,  
> organization, and year fields from the @proceedings parent to the  
> @inproceedings child entry, and delete the crossref field from the  
> child.  You'd also want appropriate checks for empty/non-empty fields.
>
> -- 
> adam
>
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