Automatically remove subtitles to produce short titles

Registered by David Purton

Test if a title has a colon (:) in it. Remove this and anything trailing to form a short title.

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Status:
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Approver:
David Purton
Priority:
Medium
Drafter:
David Purton
Direction:
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Assignee:
David Purton
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Started by
David Purton

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Also will remove The, And, A, etc. prefixes

e.g.,

Consider the following title:

    title = {$PREFIX Title: Subtitle}

where $PREFIX = "A", "An", or "The"

the resulting short title should be:

    shorttitle = {Title}

(?)

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