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Jan David Hauck

Questions templates

Hello everybody,

I have two quick questions for creating a template.

(1)
Is there a way to tell BibDesk to check whether two fields have the same value?

If some book is translated and edited by the same person the Chicago Manual of Style recommends using:

"Translated and edited by ..."

Is there a way to modify this:
<$persons.Translator?>Translated by <$persons.Translator.name.stringByRemovingTeX.stringByAppendingFullStopAndSpaceIfNotEmpty.@componentsJoinedByCommaAndAnd/></$persons.Translator?><$editors?>Edited by <$editors.name.stringByRemovingTeX.stringByAppendingFullStopAndSpaceIfNotEmpty.@componentsJoinedByCommaAndAnd/></$editors?>

so that it checks first whether the translator and editor fields are identical and then prints that field

< ??? >Translated and edited by <$persons.Translator.name.stringByRemovingTeX.stringByAppendingFullStopAndSpaceIfNotEmpty.@componentsJoinedByCommaAndAnd/>
< ??? >

(2)

What is the correct syntax for printing the date a URL is accessed. I have it in a separate field Urldate formatted as YYYY-MM-DD and would like to print it as January 17, 2015.

Thanks!

Jan

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Christiaan Hofman

Re: Questions templates

On Jan 18, 2015, at 4:35, Jan David Hauck wrote:

Hello everybody,

I have two quick questions for creating a template.

(1)
Is there a way to tell BibDesk to check whether two fields have the same value?

No.

If some book is translated and edited by the same person the Chicago Manual of Style recommends using:
"Translated and edited by ..."

Is there a way to modify this:
<$persons.Translator?>Translated by <$persons.Translator.name.stringByRemovingTeX.stringByAppendingFullStopAndSpaceIfNotEmpty.@componentsJoinedByCommaAndAnd/></$persons.Translator?><$editors?>Edited by <$editors.name.stringByRemovingTeX.stringByAppendingFullStopAndSpaceIfNotEmpty.@componentsJoinedByCommaAndAnd/></$editors?>

so that it checks first whether the translator and editor fields are identical and then prints that field

< ??? >Translated and edited by <$persons.Translator.name.stringByRemovingTeX.stringByAppendingFullStopAndSpaceIfNotEmpty.@componentsJoinedByCommaAndAnd/>
< ??? >

(2)
What is the correct syntax for printing the date a URL is accessed. I have it in a separate field Urldate formatted as YYYY-MM-DD and would like to print it as January 17, 2015.

Thanks!

Jan

There is no way to parse strings as dates in a template, so you should make sure your field is in the syntax you want to include.

Christiaan