Indeed, I would support that suggestion. I have it on since years and never regretted (so far) ;-)
Regards, Andreas On 13/10/2011, at 16:32 , Gregory Jefferis wrote: > > On 12 Oct 2011, at 14:23, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > >> >> On Oct 12, 2011, at 05:09 , M. Tamer Özsu wrote: >> >>> I was simply wondering out loud how some of these other programs manage to >>> extract the title/author/... data from the PDF files to at least attempt to >>> generate some of this citation information. I now understand that Bibdesk >>> does not do this, and that is perfectly fine. >> >> They do it by scraping information from the PDF, including the DOI. BibDesk >> can also do this, using the BDSKShouldParsePDFToGeneratePubMedSearchTerm >> hidden preference. I don't use it myself, since it only searches PubMed. >> Pretty similar code could probably be used to run a Web of Science search, >> though, come to think of it... > > Is there any reason why this is turned off by default? I actually wrote most > of that code and I thought that it had broken because I did not notice the > hidden pref. For biologists/medics, this is an incredibly timesaver and it > works with nearly all modern PDFs in this domain. > > People don't normally drop PDFs onto BibDesk unless they have an existing > reference. So I don't see that setting this to true by default would much > inconvenience anyone. Setting it to false means that very few people will > ever notice and use it. > > Best, > > Greg. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a > definitive record of customers, application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
