On Nov 16, 2011, at 21:50, FZiegler wrote: > Christiaan Hofman wrote: > >>> 2. Subsidiary question: while at it, would it be possible for me to >>> switch from having, *written in the .bib file* a Local-Url like >>> >>> file://localhost/Volumes/Home/FZ/Documents/Archive/<etc>, (**) >>> >>> to something more portable >> >> The local URL fields accept all kinds of values, file URLs, absolute paths, >> relative paths from the database, and tilde-abbreviated. To convert you >> could use a (apple)script or the Database Find and Replace feature. > > Thank you! This solves my problem #2. I hadn't realized that I should > simply edit the field to something other than what BibDesk writes on > autofile. That was instant to do with find & replace in a text editor. >
Note that BibDesk has that same feature, that you can use for specific fields. > I still had to use a more pedestrian process to URL-decode all spaces > and diacritics (ah Pavel Šťovíček...), and guess I'll have to keep doing > so from now on. While that would make "Local-URL" a misnomer, it would > seem more logical if BibDesk simply didn't URL-encode at all, when what > I write in AutoFile Preferences (viz., ~/Documents/Math/Archive) doesn't > look like the beginning of an URL... > A URL must be URL encoded, otherwise it's not a URL. And what you write is the preference is a path, always. A path that is the basis for a URL. Anyway, for BibDesk nowadays this is totally irrelevant, because it does not do autofile for a field. >>> 1. Main question: is there a simple edit I could make to turn off the >>> aliases and stay with the old "Local-Url" method of filing? (I'm willing >>> to compile Bibdesk if necessary.) >>> >> >> Default Fields Preferences, uncheck automatic conversion. >> >> However you wont be able to use several features, such as auto filing and >> dropping files, except from applescript. > > That's a bummer, because filing by dropping is (for me) BibDesk's #1 > nicest feature -- and, my experience with applescript is nil. > > Are you saying that the entire functionality *can* be restored via > applescript? If so, I'll try to learn how. If not, would you say that > I'm better off just staying with 1.3.12 indefinitely? > > Thanks again, > Francois You could restore that functionality using script hooks. I would certainly not say you're better off with 1.3.12. Another option is to use the linked files anyway, but have them backed up in the Local-Url field. Is it really such a problem when others see one extra field? Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
