On Nov 23, 2009, at 4:21, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > > On Nov 22, 2009, at 6:52 PM, Nick Illich wrote: > >> One thing I liked about Mendeley, though, was that when I drag one of my >> PDFs to the program, it gives me a button that allows me to automatically >> try to retrieve information based on Google Scholar if I type in the title, >> etc. Is there a way to do something similar in BibDesk? > > Not at present. If you download or copy e.g., BibTeX or RIS data for that > citation, though, you can drop it or paste it on the editor window of the > reference (at least, I think that still works). > >> I've been able to import information from Google Scholar and other sites >> through BibDesk before, but only if do it before I add a blank entry with a >> PDF. Is there a way to look up the information after an entry is created >> (from adding a PDF there)? > > There's code to do this for PubMed based on the PDF contents, but not Google > Scholar. I vaguely recall an AppleScript from Brian Helenbrook that did > something similar with other indexes, but the links on the wiki are dead. > You could implement something yourself with AppleScript, I think. > >> Also, in recent versions, it gives me a warning whenever I add more than one >> PDF/blank entries that the cite key is missing. Since I know about it and >> will add it later, is there an option that will allow me to turn the warning >> off? > > That sounds odd. Do you have citekey as part of the autofile naming scheme? >
Which / what kind of warning are you talking about? >> Also, when there is a translator for a book, what field does it go under? I >> didn't see a translator field, so I created one, but I was just wondering >> what others in general used for this kind of situation, if there is an >> option I do not know of. > > You'll have to add your own, since that's not a standard BibTeX field. > BibLaTeX might define a standard field for it. > >> I also really like being able to view all the keywords on the side pane and >> browse by those. I was wondering if there were other "browse by" options, in >> particular I'm interested in browsing by the series title, showing all the >> volumes of a particular series. > > Absolutely. See > > http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/manual/BibDesk%20Help_33.html > > or search for "group" in the help book. > And you can choose the field to use for the field (keyword) groups using View > Group Field (or the context menu on the header of those groups). >> Finally, if my computer fails for some reason and I have to back up all of >> my data, > > I recommend backing up before the failure :) > >> would the data links between the pdf and bib file remain in place? For >> instance, if I retrieve a copy of my bibliography file from a source and >> also a copy of all the pdfs that it had linked to, will the links break or >> will it automatically know where to find them? Would they have to maintain >> the same path? > > As long as the relative path from the .bib file to the linked files is the > same, it will just work. There are some other details that have been > discussed in the archives, like this thread: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg03651.html > > regards, > Adam More generally: either 1. the relative path, 2. the full path or 3. the file id must remain the same for BibDesk to find the linked file back. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
