Automatically replace Philippe by {\relax Ph}ilippe

KebaKebaKeba · August 24, 2023

In styles which abbreviate the first name, it may be appropriate to use Ph instead of P as the initial for Philippe. In bibtex, this can be achieved by writing {\relax Ph}ilippe instead of Philippe and so < pre >{\relax Ph}< pre >ilippe (without the spaces in the tags) in the Zotero field works fine.

It would be nice if this could be done automatically and I guess the postscript functionality of BBT (see https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/exporting/scripting/ ) may allow for such automation. I tried


if (Translator.BetterBibTeX) {
  for (const creator of zotero.creators) {
    creator.firstName = creator.firstName
      .replace(/Philippe/g, '< pre >\relax Ph</ pre >ilppe')
  }
  tex.addCreators();
}

However, that does not work. I guess, I misunderstand how to deal with creators (or with Javascript …). Can anyone give me any pointers how to write such a script? Thanks!

danielborek · August 28, 2023

You might ask on GitHub page BBT, the author of the plugin might not read the forum here often

KebaKebaKeba · August 28, 2023

I did and the author replied very quickly. For the record: It is sufficient to write PHilippe instead of < pre >{\relax Ph}< pre >ilippe (and then also biblatex export works fine), see https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/exporting/advanced/#recognizing-initials-in-names. That may not directly answer my question but nonetheless solves my problem.

emilianoeheyns · August 29, 2023

Your code misses a backslash (\\relax):

if (Translator.BetterBibTeX) {
  for (const creator of zotero.creators) {
    creator.firstName = creator.firstName
      .replace(/Philippe/g, '<pre>{\\relax Ph}</pre>ilippe')
  }
  tex.addCreators();
}