![]() bib files can be put under version control, compared, quickly edited, etc. I think, we should enable readability as the. Provide formatter (Example: Remove tabs / newlines / duplicate spaces) that can be enabled by a user for specific fields onLoad / onSave.No longer perform any changes of field content (no more space/tab/newline elimination, etc.).Field keys are formatted in lower case only.Bibtex entry keys are written in camel case, starting upper case.The value part is indented to one space past the longest field key name + = (so that all values are aligned). The = is appended directly to the field key.Fields are sorted as stated in the Bibtex / Biblatex manuals.Dropping all field saving options (Preferences -> File -> Field saving options) Fixed and non-configurable format for new or modified entries.New entries are added to the bottom of the file.(sorting information is now stored in the file) No more global configuration forsorting of entries on load / save.Modifying any part of an entry results in a reformatting of the complete entry.Unmodified entries will not be formatted and written back exactly as read in (including all formatting issues, etc.Rationale: People are very emotional about formatting -> Modify as little as possible in the bib file To track the progress of implementation, the consensus described below is added here. We can just focus on other issues and let time solve the issue or invest time to implement the old serialization again. In version 2.11 beta 2, we offer a quick hack to go back to the old 2.9.2 behavior, which is somehow incomplete. When a user collaborates with a person using an older version of JabRef, they cannot use version control properly as the serialization always changes. If no field name is given, then "UNKNOWN" is used. Enabled by default.Ĭonfigurable: Use camel case for field names (e.g., "HowPublished" instead of "howpublished"). E.g., Inproceedings got InProceedingsĬonfigurable: Start field contents in same column. The second word in of the BibTeX type is capitalized. ![]() Except the title, which is written first. Significant words:"a", all two-letter actual words, "the", "and", "some", all one-word prepositions, and all one-word pronouns would be an acceptable list of non-significant words, I think, to nearly all publishers.First, the required, then the optional and then all other fields are written. However, in practice hardly anyone ever cares about the differences, so one can come up with a standard list of non-capitalised words. Tiresomely, Bibtex can't be used to get all bibliographies right, since different citation styles actually have different lists of non-significant words. If you can programmatically match words against this, then you can generate your Bibtex database automatically, with more than a little work, but it's maybe a two-hour project. ![]() If you have been using a spell-checker, then the contents of its database will, with luck, contain nearly all of the material you need to know to capitalise properly: spell-checker's store information on which words are all-caps, and which are capitalised as proper names. I agree with Killian that the right thing is to put he story of a ten-minute argument.ĭon't protect lowercase letters: this prevents Bibtex from converting the string to all-caps, which is required by some obscure bibliographical styles. ![]()
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