"function words" only in English?

theloni0us · May 20, 2021, 1:51pm

Hi,

are function words hard-coded only in English? I haven’t been able to find how to change that.

My default citation key generator is:

[auth][year]_[veryshorttitle:capitalize]

If the full title is in English, like “An example title”, that generates AuthorYYYY_Example, but if the title is in any other language, like “Ein dummes Beispiel”, it generates AuthorYYYY_Ein.

How/where can I add function words in other languages?

k3KAW8Pnf7mkmdSMPHz2 · May 20, 2021, 9:24pm

At the moment they are unfortunately hard-coded in

github.com

JabRef/jabref/blob/65a672adc15ef7142555f4ac128be806942a5b96/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/formatter/casechanger/Word.java#L23-L37

    
      
          static {
              Set<String> smallerWords = new HashSet<>();
          
          
    // Articles
              smallerWords.addAll(Arrays.asList("a", "an", "the"));
              // Prepositions
              smallerWords.addAll(Arrays.asList("above", "about", "across", "against", "along", "among", "around", "at", "before", "behind", "below", "beneath", "beside", "between", "beyond", "by", "down", "during", "except", "for", "from", "in", "inside", "into", "like", "near", "of", "off", "on", "onto", "since", "to", "toward", "through", "under", "until", "up", "upon", "with", "within", "without"));
              // Conjunctions
              smallerWords.addAll(Arrays.asList("and", "but", "for", "nor", "or", "so", "yet"));
          
          
    // unmodifiable for thread safety
              SMALLER_WORDS = smallerWords.stream()
                                  .map(word -> word.toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT))
                                  .collect(Collectors.toUnmodifiableSet());
          }

You can “manually” remove words using the regex modifier.

theloni0us · May 20, 2021, 11:38pm

I see, thanks for your reply.
I find that this is a major limitation in JabRef, are there plans to support other languages? Should/could I place a feature request?

k3KAW8Pnf7mkmdSMPHz2 · May 24, 2021, 2:55pm

As far as I know, there is no plan to support other languages.

I’d suggest making a “Feature Request” here in the forum and perhaps describe the use case a bit more. If your .bib file has mixed languages it would be much harder to implement. Just adding/removing words manually to the list might be a lesser enhancement, I don’t know if that would be useful.

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