Sonny Software

Hi,

I was wondering if there is any functionality in Bookends to have conditional statements in BibTeX format. Below is my use case,
For my CV, resume, etc. when listing my publications, I want to highlight my name. I can do this by adding in the BibTeX of that particular reference. I was wondering if somehow I can automate this in Bookends. So whenever there is my name in the list of authors it add that field in the generated BibTeX file.

No. Bookends conditional formatting can change the output depending upon whether a field has content or not (is empty), but it can't do that based upon the nature of the content. That's the kind of complicated logic that you could conceivably perform on the bibliography, once it's generated, using a programming or scripting language.

Jon
Sonny Software

Got you, thanks Jon.

Kourosh

Bookends conditional formatting can change the output depending upon whether a field has content or not (is empty

Hi Jon, jumping in here to ask how do I do this? i.e. I want to export a bibliography file using the bibtex format but only export fields which have content, not every field that's listed?

Thanks!

The currently shipping BibTeX format does this already. If you're using a modified version you might want to move it out of the Custom Formats folder and use the default one we ship.
Jon
Sonny Software