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Graphical Java application for managing BibTeX and biblatex (.bib) databases
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Auto BibTeX key generator removes colons #4101

Closed MBradbury closed 6 years ago

MBradbury commented 6 years ago

I have a default pattern of "[auth]:[year]:[shorttitle]", but when autogenerating keys rather than obtaining "Wei:2017:modelingunderstandingvehicle" the following is entered "Wei2017modelingunderstandingvehicle".

JabRef version 4.3.1 on Windows 10 x64

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Create a bib file with the entry at the end of this report
  2. Modify the BibTeX Key Generator default settings to contain "[auth]:[year]:[shorttitle]" (without quotes)
  3. Press the Autogenerate BibTeX keys button
  4. Observe that the key does not contain colons as expected

@InProceedings{00001, author = {M. Wei and Z. Lu and W. Wang}, title = {On Modeling And Understanding Vehicle Evacuation Attacks In Vanets}, booktitle = {2017 Ieee International Conference On Communications (icc)}, year = {2017}, pages = {1--7}, month = may, }

tobiasdiez commented 6 years ago

Duplicate of #4010

tobiasdiez commented 6 years ago

As discussed in #4010, if you want colons in your key you need to disable the option "Enforce legal keys " in the preferences.

MBradbury commented 6 years ago

Would it be possible to update the documentation at https://help.jabref.org/en/BibtexKeyPatterns to specify disabling that option?

tobiasdiez commented 6 years ago

Yes and it would be a great help if you would update it yourself. Just click on the "github icon" in the upper right corner (or go to https://github.com/JabRef/help.jabref.org/blob/gh-pages/en/BibtexKeyPatterns.md) and click on the "edit" button (the pencil). Then submit your changes. Thanks!