Conditional formatting (ternaries) and syntax

[Chris-Bee]

Hello,

thanks for the great plugin!

I'm trying to format a citation key depending on the existence of the shorttitle field. I did find the documentation for ternaries, but the syntax described there does not seem to work, at least when I use it for Zotero 6.0.27 and Better BibTex 6.7.122

This format works for my version:

[auth:capitalize] [year] [ShortTitle:lower]

What I'd like todo is to introduce an underscore with the shorttitle only if the shorttitle does excist. With the described syntax, this would be:

(auth:capitalize) (year) (ShortTitle ? "_") (ShortTitle:lower)

But this seems to be the wrong syntax, at least the evaluation reports "faild to upgrade legacy formular". I also saw examples from others using syntax like:

auth.capitalize + year

But this actually prints this text as the citation key.

Did the syntax change or am I missing something?

Thanks in advance.

[retorquere]

There's a few things going on here:

: from the old format has been replaced by . in the new syntax, so [ShortTitle:lower] becomes ShortTitle.lower (or (ShortTitle.lower) if you want the parenthesis). If you simply enter your formula in the old syntax, BBT will convert it into the new syntax for you (auth(n=0,m=1,creator="*",initials=false).fold.capitalize + year + ShortTitle.lower, which simplifies to auth.capitalize + year + ShortTitle.lower)

the ternary syntax is (<condition> ? <what to include if the condition is non-empty> : <what to include if the condition is empty>); (condition ? X) (condition : X) will not work, you need (ShortTitle ? "_" : "") + ShortTitle.lower

What you want is easier achieved as auth.capitalize + year + ShortTitle.prefix('_') though.

[Chris-Bee]

Works like a charm. Thank you!