[OS X TeX] converting crossref

Sun Jul 22 11:05:38 EDT 2007

On Jul 22, 2007, at 7:50 AM, Alex Hamann wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a number of incollection entries in my bibliography which  
> have been created with crossrefs.
> Now I ran into the problem that jurabib.bst offers a certain  
> formating options for incollection items which apparently do not  
> work if there is a crossref (I am referring to the edby option). Is  
> there an easy way to convert all the incollections with crossrefs  
> to incollections without crossrefs? Just deleting the crossref  
> field for all of them will not do it since that will cause the loss  
> of the information from the parent item.
>

This sounds like something that a search and replace with regular  
expressions should be able to do easily, but since I don't know how  
the entries before and after the conversion should look like I can't  
really offer more precise suggestions. Could you post some "before"  
and "after" examples?

> TIA,
> Alex

Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College

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