Facilities for generating citation keys / patch BibTeX records / JabRef support

[GerHobbelt]

From Qiqqa forum:

Axel Sonntag: 2 months ago

Change the style of autogenerated bibtex codes

The bibtex sniffer is a great feature of qiqqa, but I manually have to change each bibtext code because I use a different format, e.g. instead of "smith1999gear", I would like to customize the autogenerated code to something like "Smith1999".

Having this customizability would improve my efficiency a lot!

Many thanks for considering...

[GerHobbelt]

Looks a lot like adding some sort of JabRef support to Qiqqa:

Reference material:

• https://help.jabref.org/en/BibtexKeyPatterns
• https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-better-bibtex

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Ger Hobbelt: 7 hours ago

It's my understanding those bibtex keys come in as part of the bibtex record fetched from Google Scholar or via Infer logic (which uses bibtexsearch.com and a few other modes to locate a matching bibtex record), hence qiqqa is not directly involved in generating those keys like smith1999gear.

If you want to change the keys in qiqqa, qiqqa would need to add a bibtex key generating code, which currently doesn't exist (though qiqqa does generate a key on its own when you generate a bibtex record using the Summary button, but that's not Sniffer UI/functionality)