Re: [PATCH] Re: another natbib problem

[Angus Leeming]

On Friday 26 April 2002 2:47 pm, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
> Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
> > Here is my proposal.
>
> Having written this, I think about using the key instead of "No Author".
> This would be even more WYSIWYG and more informative perhaps. What do you
> think?
>
> Juergen.

You mean like this? (It appears that great thought can be shared ;-)

You might say that LyX is "better" than LaTeX here ;-)

Angus

Index: src/frontends/controllers/biblio.C
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/lyx/cvsroot/lyx-devel/src/frontends/controllers/biblio.C,v
retrieving revision 1.24
diff -u -p -r1.24 biblio.C
--- src/frontends/controllers/biblio.C	24 Apr 2002 10:00:39 -0000	1.24
+++ src/frontends/controllers/biblio.C	26 Apr 2002 14:12:58 -0000
@@ -198,6 +198,13 @@ string const getAbbreviatedAuthor(InfoMa
 	if (author.empty())
 		author = parseBibTeX(it->second, "editor");
 
+	if (author.empty()) {
+		author = parseBibTeX(it->second, "key");
+		if (author.empty())
+			author = key;
+		return author;
+	}
+
 	vector<string> authors = getVectorFromString(author, "and");
 
 	if (!authors.empty()) {
@@ -247,6 +254,9 @@ string const getYear(InfoMap const & map
 	}
 
 	string year = parseBibTeX(it->second, "year");
+	if (year.empty())
+		year = _("No year");
+
 	return year;
 }
 

#LyX 1.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
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\language english
\inputencoding auto
\fontscheme default
\graphics default
\paperfontsize default
\spacing single 
\papersize Default
\paperpackage a4
\use_geometry 0
\use_amsmath 0
\use_natbib 1
\use_numerical_citations 0
\paperorientation portrait
\secnumdepth 3
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation indent
\defskip medskip
\quotes_language english
\quotes_times 2
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 1
\paperpagestyle default

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\begin_inset LatexCommand \citet{Anderson:etal89}

\end_inset 

 text 
\begin_inset LatexCommand \citet{booklet-87}

\end_inset 

 text 
\begin_inset LatexCommand \citet{manual-84}

\end_inset 

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\begin_inset LatexCommand \citet{Spi}

\end_inset 

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\begin_inset LatexCommand \citet{unpublished-minimal}

\end_inset 

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\layout Standard


\begin_inset LatexCommand \BibTeX[plainnat]{/usr/users/aleem/jug}

\end_inset 


\the_end

@String{ARRD = {Am.~Rev. Respir.~Dis.}}

@Misc{Spi,
  Author         = {Spitzm\"uller, J\"urgen},
  Title          = {An unpublished essay},
  HowPublished   = {Private copy},
}

@MANUAL{manual-84,
   key = "Manmaker",
   title = "The Definitive Computer Manual",
   year = "1984",
}

@BOOKLET{booklet-87,
   key = "Kn87",
   title = "The Programming of Computer Art",
   year = "1987",
}

@UNPUBLISHED{unpublished-minimal,
   author = "Ulrich {\"{U}}nderwood and Ned {\~N}et and Paul {\={P}}ot",
   title = "Lower Bounds for Wishful Research Results",
   note = "Talk at Fanstord University (this is a minimal UNPUBLISHED
 entry)", }

@article{Anderson:etal89,
 author = {P.J. Anderson and J.D. Blanchard and J.D. Brain and
                  H.A. Feldman and J.J. McNamara and J.J. Heyder},
 title  = {Effect of cystic fibrosis on inhaled aerosol boluses},
 journal = ARRD,
 year   = 1989,
 volume = 140,
 pages  = {1317-1324}
}

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