Sonny Software

Is this something I can fix? I'm using BibTeX copied/pasted form Google Scholar and ACM pages. Data like this:
Results in a concatentated title of "Conditional Spatiality Second Workshop on Spatial Hypertext, ACM Hypertext" and no Volume data, whereas my understanding is that book title should map to volume rather than title. At present I'm having to fix this by hand, which isn't more than a chore, but I wonder if I can fix this in Bookends settings (and whether I should)?

The BibTeX import filter maps both Title and BookTitle to the Title field, so they become concatenated. If you want them mapped to different fields, edit the BibTeX filter. Note that import filters don't know about reference Types, there is no conditional importing. So Bookends won't discriminate between Book Chapters and Books when importing Booktitle.

Jon
Sonny Software

Thanks. Understand the comment re granularity of the import filter.

For later readers, the import filters are accessed via File -> Import Filter Manager. On the dialog that opens, scroll the left list pane and select the desired data format (e.g. 'BibTeX') and the mappings are loaded in the right part of the dialog. The left part of the per-format data has another vertical listing - this is the mapping of import format tags (left column) to Bookends fields (right column). To edit a mapping - i.e. a row in the listing, double-click the 'cell', left/right column cells are edited separately. I mention this as it took me a while to figure out the edit process (the 'Define Import types' button below the list does something else). As the mapping edits at this level are manual, you might want to make a note of what edits you've made (and why) in case you find you need to roll back the as-installed mappings.