Key generator: how to obtain LastnameLastname2016WordsOfTitleWithUpperFirstLetter ?

[gianlucabaldassarre]

JabRef version 3.4 on Debian 8 Jessie

Hello, I would like to set the key generator of JabRef so that it produces a key of the type:
[authors][year][title]
but I would like that the words of the title are all forced to have an initial upper letter to facilitate the reading of the key (by ``forced'' I mean independently of the fact that the words of the title are lower or upper case in the title field of the JabRef entry).

That is, I would like to obtain a key of this type:
LastnameLastname2016WordsOfTitleWithUpperFirstLetter
rather than:
LastnameLastname2016wordsoftitlewithlowerfirstletter
which is now generated by [authors][year][title] if the words of the title in the database entry are lower case.

I have seen in the JabRef Help that you can force lower or upper case letters as follows:

:lower: Forces the text inserted by the field marker to be in lowercase. For example, [auth:lower] expands the last name of the first author in lowercase.
:upper: Forces the text inserted by the field marker to be in uppercase. For example, [auth:upper] expands the last name of the first author in uppercase.

but I have not found a setting to obtain what I mention above, e.g. something like :firstupper or similar to set [title:firstupper] that would force the words of the title to have the first letter to be upper case and the following letters to be lower case.

Is it possible to obtain this in JabRef 3.4?

If not, would it be possible to add such feature in future versions of JabRef?

Thanks,
Gianluca

[matthiasgeiger]

Hey Gianluca,
this is currently not possible.

But I agree that the feature would be useful to improve readability of such bibtex keys. We'll see whether we can add this in a future release.

[gianlucabaldassarre]

Hello,

We'll see whether we can add this in a future release.

Thanks, that would be very useful!
I guess other people would use that feature to make the words of title more easily readable within the keys. Also, this would allow to standardise the title part of keys as in some references they come with an upper initial letter, in some others with a lower initial letter, and in yet some other with both (upper for keywords, lower for conjunction words), so keys using title words are a bit messy now.

Thanks,
Gianluca

[oscargus]

I can give this a go. @gianlucabaldassarre could you live with "of" being written as "of" or do you really want "Of"? (I can see that in this case you do want "Of", but we spent some time solving "of". ;-)

I think the modifier "title" can be a good name for the "of"-case. What about the first? "firstupper"?

[oscargus]

@gianlucabaldassarre You can try out a version at https://builds.jabref.org/implement1506 in a few minutes. I went with title and camel where you would like to use camel.

[matthiasgeiger]

With #4722 now also a more flexible solution using :capitalize, :titlecase and :sentencecase modifiers is available and therefore this issue can be closed.

Thus: This should be fixed in the latest development version. You can check the build from http://builds.jabref.org/master/. Thanks! Please remember to make a backup of your library before trying-out this version.

[gianlucabaldassarre]

Hello Matthias, it is nice to see the issue was followed so keenly. : ) Bye, Gianluca

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