Definition of unique bibtex keys
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Description
To get rid of the hazzle with different keys being inconsistent across different systems, the system should enforce globally unique bibtex keys.
First idea: [authorIni][year]-[title:abbr:] (See Key patterns help). TODO: the title should get more readable.
Alternatives
- nbibtex shows a different approach, wich generates a new
.bibfile based on citations. - Define an
aliasfield in each BibTeX entry: Possible with biblatex'sidsfield. See http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/37646/9075
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- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Begin by locating where BibTeX keys are generated and compared, then evaluate the proposed key pattern against the alias and citation-file alternatives; done requires a decided uniqueness strategy and documented behavior.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- data
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100