Ling Li wrote:
> Problem:
> While adding .bib files via "BibTeX Database form," they are sorted
> alphabetically. However, sometimes this is not desired. For example, I
> put all "@string" into a abbrev.bib file and would like this file to be
> listed at first. If there is another aaa.bib file which uses those
> @string definitions, auto sorting will result in bibtex error.
Dear Ling, many thanks for this.
Jean-Marc, I think that we should apply his 'simple' fix to both 1.3.x and
1.4. What think you?
Angus
> Root:
> FormBibtex.C calls eliminate_duplicates(dbase) to remove duplicates in
> dbase. In eliminate_duplicates (defined in lyxalgo.h), dbase is first
> sorted.
>
> Fix: (src/support/lyxalgo.h)
> A quick patch is to rewrite eliminate_duplicates as
>
> template<class C>
> void eliminate_duplicates(C & c)
> {
> for (size_t i = 1; i < c.size(); ++i) {
> typename C::iterator ci = c.begin() + i;
> if (std::find(c.begin(), ci, *ci) != ci) {
> c.erase(ci);
> --i;
> }
> }
> }
>
> This works fine and is efficient for small size c.
