[cb2bib] Modifying regexps.txt
I've just started using cb2bib. It's great. However, the site I use a lot does not have a translator and the journals are listed this way:
Title: Prophet, kings, servants, and lepers: a missiological reading of an ancient drama
Source: Missiology 35 no 3 Jl 2007, p 305-313.
cb2bib picks out the title, pages, number and year fine. But it misses the Journal name and volume number.
I have spent the better part of the afternoon trying to figure out how to modify the regexps.txt file to recognize this pattern.
After manually editing the entry, I do ALT-I and save new recognition pattern as ATLAS, but to no avail.
I've tried manually editing the regexps.txt file, but again, to no avail. I'm sure it's something simple (it sounds like it should be anyhow), but I can't make sense of all the s's and d's and +'s and such.
I've chased down the help files and links, but, alas, I just don't get it (I haven't programmed since GWBasic died).
If someone could tell me how to do it, or send me something I could cut and paste into regexps.txt I'd really appreciate it!
TIA
P.S. Oh, yeah, it doesn't list the author. But I don't know any way around that. :(
EDIT: Hmmm. I've tried copying properly formatted entries, with a variety of styles, and none of them pick up journal or volume.
What am I doing wrong?
Title: Prophet, kings, servants, and lepers: a missiological reading of an ancient drama
Source: Missiology 35 no 3 Jl 2007, p 305-313.
cb2bib picks out the title, pages, number and year fine. But it misses the Journal name and volume number.
I have spent the better part of the afternoon trying to figure out how to modify the regexps.txt file to recognize this pattern.
After manually editing the entry, I do ALT-I and save new recognition pattern as ATLAS, but to no avail.
I've tried manually editing the regexps.txt file, but again, to no avail. I'm sure it's something simple (it sounds like it should be anyhow), but I can't make sense of all the s's and d's and +'s and such.
I've chased down the help files and links, but, alas, I just don't get it (I haven't programmed since GWBasic died).
If someone could tell me how to do it, or send me something I could cut and paste into regexps.txt I'd really appreciate it!
TIA
P.S. Oh, yeah, it doesn't list the author. But I don't know any way around that. :(
EDIT: Hmmm. I've tried copying properly formatted entries, with a variety of styles, and none of them pick up journal or volume.
What am I doing wrong?
I also discovered that it is doing all this heuristically. It apparently scans the regexps.txt file, but comes up with "no automatic format detection...5 fields guessed".
It does equally well when I delete the regexps.txt file!
In fact, it never automatically detects anything. Even when I copy sample items from the cb2bib site itself. It does it all by heuristically guessing.
I can't get it to work as advertised: Any idea what I'm doing wrong?