[Biborb-general] Re: biborb suggestion + Adding bibtex fields

[Guillaume Gardey]

Dear Sridhar,

Thank you for your suggestions. It seems that the check box will be  
useful to manipulate a subset of the bibliography. As your are not the  
only one to ask me for, this will be in the next version of the tool.

Concerning the add of a new field, it is possible. In the "xsl"  
directory, there is a file called "model.xml". This file records the  
structure of each bibtex entry (article, journal ....) and their fields  
(author, title, ....). You will have to edit it and modify it this way:

Here is what is recorded for an article:

<entry type="article">
    <required>
      <id/><author/><title/><journal/><year/>
    </required>
    <optional>
      <volume/><number/><pages/><month/><note/>
    </optional>
    <additional>
       
<group/><abstract/><keywords/><url/><urlzip/><pdf/><website/ 
><longnotes/>
    </additional>
  </entry>

To add a new field name "myfield" , you just have to add <myfield/> in  
one of the three section 'required' 'optional' or 'additional'.
For instance, adding it to required:

<entry type="article">
    <required>
      <id/><author/><title/><journal/><year/>
        <myfield/>
    </required>
    <optional>
      <volume/><number/><pages/><month/><note/>
    </optional>
    <additional>
       
<group/><abstract/><keywords/><url/><urlzip/><pdf/><website/ 
><longnotes/>
    </additional>
  </entry>

This modification will add the 'myfield' field to an article entry. You  
will have to repeat this operation for each different entries.

Finally you will have to edit and modify line 584 and 551 of the file  
"functions.php".
You have to add the "_myfield" to the array (the underscore is needed).
This would give something like:
$bibtex_entries = array(......,"_longnotes","_myfield");

This should work and add myfield to the bibtex entry.

I hope I have explained it clearly otherwise feel free to contact me  
again. I will certainly turn that tricky manipulation into something  
simpler in the next version.

Thanks again for your suggestions and for using biborb.

Sincerely

Guillaume

Le jeudi, 13 nov 2003, à 21:11 Europe/Paris, Sridhar Anandakrishnan a  
écrit :

> Dear Guillame,  I have just started to use biborb and like it a lot -
> nice job!
>
> One suggestion that might or might not be difficult...
>
> It would be nice if, when one is looking at the list of references
> (the bibindex.php output screen), if there were a small check box in  
> the
> top corner of each entry, which one could check to say "select this
> entry".
>
> Then, some way to "operate on" all the selected entries together:
>
>       - ie. modify the "GROUP" entry for all the sites all at
>         once.  This way, one could choose a subset of the entries, and  
> then
>         make them all into a group easily...
>       - maybe a button on the left to "save selected entries to new
>         bib file"
>
> Finally, in my field (geophysics) the journals use a "DOI - digital
> object id" tag.  How does one add a new field to the bibtex entry?
>
> Just a suggestion!
>
> Nice work.
> Sincerely,
> Sridhar.
>
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