Don't duplicate title to short title?

[iandol]

Hi, in the BibTeX format for conference proceedings, there is:

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title = $`{`t`}`, $
booktitle = $`{`s`}`, $

My short title field is empty, and I thus assumed that I should get an empty booktitle:

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title = {My long title}
booktitle = {}

but it seems if it is empty, s gets duplicated with t:

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title = {My long title}
booktitle = {My long title}

Is this configurable somewhere, or how do I work round it?

[Jon]

When Bookends 12 was released we made the output of the short title field strictly follow the contents of this field. But there were too many complaints that when it was empty (often) no title was output at all. So we reinstituted the rule that if the short title is empty the full title would be output.

This makes sense for bibliographies, but I agree not so much for reference metadata exchange formats. I suppose I could make the output strict again for formats such as RIS and BibTeX, but loose for all others.

Jon
Sonny Software

[iandol]

I can work round it by just removing that field in my customised bibtex filter (all my refs have a title field), so if this isn't an issue for most users, as long as I wasn't missing something, no big deal...