Hi all, hope everything is going well! I'm really interested in tackling this issue as a beginner, could I take it?

Sure, go ahead.

I have setup the code base on Linux OS. I am looking for the journal abbreviations default list in Linux directory but unable to find. also I downloaded the Jebref from website. I can see the complete journal abbreviations list but in local development running version I can only see one demo entry.

downloaded version.

Development version:

Koppor answered your question in Gitter I believe.

Hi @MathewKnee @koppor regarding Issue #10557
As, mentioned in above steps . I added the new file in my local directory as shown below image .

I added some journal abbreviations in test.csv file as shown below

and I am able to see the journal in my jabref GUI as shown below

but I am unable to add abbreviations from jabref but unable to understand what actually explained in Feature in above issue.
I have't done any code level changes .

any suggestion to understand it clearly and should be able to journal abbreviations from jabref GUI itself and it should be saved in my custom test.csv file in my custom directory I have implemented.

@Azgharpasha You have to press enter to get the value accepted. External issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8089514

Hey, Is this issue still open? I would like to tackle this task as my first contribution.

This strongly relates to #12364 - and can be seen as pre-condition.

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Hi @koppor,

I'm currently working on implementing the MV file conversion feature for the journal abbreviation lists. At present, the internal list that populates the UI consists of CSV file paths. With the new MV conversion in place, I'm trying to understand the intended design and the purpose of this conversion:

• Data Transformation:
  Should the CSV data be transformed or restructured in a specific way when generating the .mv files, or is a straightforward conversion acceptable?

• MV File Conversion Purpose:
  Is the goal for the MV files to completely replace the CSV files (i.e., should the UI be populated from the MV files), or are the MV files meant only as a persistent cache while the UI still uses the CSV file paths?

Any clarification on how the MV file conversion is meant to integrate with the journal abbreviation preferences and the UI would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

@adhamahmad Please read the existing code. It should answer both questions.

Spoiler: CSV data is taken mostly as is; CSV should be kept as this is the human readble editable form to modify the data. See abbrv.jabref.org