Thanks for the help! This is great, and produces just the effect I was after -- two column preview showing the abstract and the annote field.
Let me admit to you, though, I am still quite bit confused about why this works. Maybe my head's screwed on wrong, but here's a map of my confusion in case you're curious how the interface looks to unexperienced eyes. When I saw the checkbox for "Export Templates" I thought those templates were only used for exporting the bibtex library as a whole (from the File / Export ) command. "Service Templates" sounded more general and more promising, so I did experiment with those, although I was aware they might only affect some OS X Service that BibDesk offered. Also, It took me a while to understand that the "Preview" button previewed the bibliographic citation, and was unrelated to functionality configured by the "Preview Display" setting. (Now my understanding is that "Preview" button shows the same result as Preview Display / PDF.) Looking at the Templates preference pane itself, it seemed like a central interface for registering template files. That's very nice. But I don't understand how BibDesk knows which template to use where. For instance, why does "Preview Display / Template" draw on my new RTF template? What if I had changed the HTML template? I looked but couldn't find anywhere a configuraiton for which template file Preview Display uses. Or is that what the role "Main Page" means? Or is the name "Default X template" a special value which causes BibDesk to use that template for previews and not others? (But in that case, why is it even possible to register templates with other names?) In other words, I feel like there's some great functionality here in the configuration of preview styles and document export formats, but to me at least the interface doesn't make it very self-discoverable. Sorry to sound critical. Just one man's opinion! Like I said, it's a great app and I'm glad I've found it! Alexis On 4 Jul 2007, at 15:10, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > > On Jul 4, 2007, at 05:08, Alexis Gallagher wrote: > >> I just switched to BibDesk from JabRef, and am greatly enjoying its >> better performance and more elegant handling of searching and >> grouping. But there's one feature I'm missing keenly. > > That's nice to hear! > >> I am wondering if there is a way to configure what fields appear in >> the "Preview Display" pane. Ideally, I would like it only to show the >> abstract field and the annote field, side by side each other > > I was going to tell you that you can't do side-by-side layout, but > some experimentation indicates it's possible using a 1 row x 2 > column table in TextEdit (Format->Text->Table). Make sure to set > top alignment for both columns. Attached is a sample. > > In the template prefs, expand the Default RTF template row and > double-click on the main page row, then choose the appropriate > template file. It uses an alias, so you can move/rename the > template file later. Christiaan covered the rest and pointed to > the docs, but post back if you have problems. > > hth, > Adam > > <column template.rtf> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
