[OS X TeX] autogenerated cite keys; BibDesk 1.3.20

[Alessandro Languasco]

Thanks Adam for the suggestions.

Just a follow-up: I had no need to write an Applescript program since  
the
auto-generated keys method in JabRef allowed me to have them formatted
as I wrote.

Bests,
	Alessandro

PS. yeah, I do have good reasons to use such a format.

On 19/ago/09, at 17:02, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:

>
> On Aug 19, 2009, at 6:04 AM, Alessandro Languasco wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to autogenerate cite keys in BibDesk using the following  
>> custom format
>>
>> name of the first author + first initial of the surnames of the  
>> remaining authors + year + progressive letter
>>
>> The best result I am able to get is to use the commands
>>
>> %a1%a91%Y%u1
>>
>> but the first letter of the first author is repeated.
>
> Suggestion #1: your citekey isn't a work of art; just pick something  
> simple and use it.
>
> Suggestion #2: use %u0 at the end, instead of limiting it to a  
> single unique character.
>
> Finally, if you really need this form of citekey, you will have to  
> write a script hook to create it yourself.  You can access the  
> format parsing from AppleScript, so that may be helpful.
>
> http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/manual/BibDesk%20Help_82.html
>