On 7 May 2008, at 10:33 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> James Howison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On May 6, 2008, at 9:55 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On May 6, 2008, at 6:17 PM, James Howison wrote:
>>>
>>>> I usually use Copy as RIS to exchange references with the poor sods
>>>> using Endnote. However recently (I think) I've noticed that
>>>> BibDesk
>>>> doesn't include the TY (type) of reference, which confuses
>>>> Endnote no
>>>> end. I'm pretty sure that RIS should always have that filled out:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.refman.com/support/risformat_tags_01.asp
>>>
>>> You are absolutely right, and I just checked in a fix for it; it's
>>> been broken for several months. I only tested it with your example,
>>> so more testing is welcome. Incidentally, I fixed another random
>>> bug
>>> in RIS export that's been around since March 2006, due to a change
>>> to
>>> support PubMed's bastard RIS. Apparently RIS doesn't get a lot of
>>> use...
>>
>> Hi, using today's daily I tried this with my correspondent. I see
>> that TY is now included but he still had issues. We both realize
>> that
>> RIS is poorly defined, and it might be an Endnote importing thing.
>
> RIS at least has a published spec; unfortunately, BibDesk is doing a
> crappy job exporting it. I never noticed this because BibDesk can
> read
> its own output back in (and I never tried Endnote).
>
> Basically the problem is that BibDesk has a dictionary mapping RIS
> tags
> to BibTeX, so TI = title; T1 = title; T2 = title; and does a reverse
> dictionary lookup to find that title = (TI, T1, T2), and picks the
> first
> one. However, those are actually in random order, so the result
> varies
> wildly.
>
> What really needs to be done:
>
> 1) create a dictionary mapping BibTeX field->RIS tag
Just added this one, so that should be better now. Though I'm not sure
I've done it right.
PubMedTagsForBibTeXFieldNames = {
Abstract = AB;
Address = AD;
Annote = N1;
Author = AU;
Booktitle = BT;
Editor = ED;
Isbn = SN;
Journal = JO;
Keywords = KW;
Language = LA;
"Local-Url" = L1;
Medlineref = UI;
Pages = PG;
Title = TI;
Publisher = PB;
Status = PS;
Url = UR;
Volume = VL;
Year = PY;
};
Christiaan
>
> 2) create a dictionary mapping BibTeX type->RIS TY
>
> They should look like this:
>
> RISTagsForBibTeXFields = {
> Author = AU;
> Title = TI;
> ...
> };
>
> which is part of an ASCII property list. If someone can develop that
> mapping, we can fix the bugs properly. I'd only worry about the basic
> BibTeX fields; we have a way to fake the others.
>
> --
> adam
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