One of the tricks I use is the “Custom Character Set”.
To use this, basically you simply use Brackets [] to set the characters that can appear in those positions.
As such, if you define the Tag Format as something like this…
\u\u[A1·][b2·]-
This will effectively allow you to create a group of possible characters, symbols, spaces to appear in those positions.
Per my example (with * indicating the group of Any Uppercase Letters, and · being a space), the resulting possibilities that the example would allow for would be…
**··-
**A2-
**1b-
**Ab-
**12-
**1b-
**·2-
**·b-
**A·-
**1·-
Using this allows for flexibility that one simply cannot get with all inclusive groups, like the \d, since you can effectively limit what Reference Manager considers to be a viable element in a given tag position.
I do hope this helps.
Thanks!
SteveH
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