Hi folks, I was able to conjure up a little vi magic to handle this:
:%s/;.*/}/
Sincerely,
Dr. Ronald D. Haynes
Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Chair, MSc and PhD Scientific Computing Programs
Memorial University of Newfoundland
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On Dec 28, 2020, 2:40 PM -0330, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com>, wrote:
>
>
> > On 28 Dec 2020, at 17:15, Ronald Haynes <rhayne...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi folks, so I have made some progress with links to attachments using a
> > .bib file generated by zotero/better-bibtex. All entries work except for
> > entries with multiple attachments. Several of my .bib entries have file
> > fields that look like:
> >
> > /Users/rhaynes/Zotero/storage/QYXFGM6P/Peña_1995_M-matrices whose inverses
> > are totally
> > positive.pdf;/Users/rhaynes/Zotero/storage/ZQNHFBL9/002437959300244T.html
> >
> >
> > Bibdesk is not able to decipher the link to the pdf file. Any
> > suggestions?
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Dr. Ronald D. Haynes
> >
> > Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
> > Chair, MSc and PhD Scientific Computing Programs
> > Memorial University of Newfoundland
>
> BibDesk cannot by itself understand multiple files in the same field. It is
> also ambiguous, as the semicolon is also a valid path character.
>
> You could try to use AppleScript to convert these fields into linked files. I
> don’t know if you are versed in AppleScript?
>
> The following script should do what you want (disclaimer: not fully tested,
> as I don’t have these fields).
>
> tell application "BibDesk"
> tell front document
> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {";"}
> repeat with aPub in publications
> tell (contents of aPub)
> set theValue to value of field "File"
> if theValue contains ";" then
> set theFileNames to text items of
> theValue
> repeat with theFileName in theFileNames
> set theFileName to contents of
> theFileName
> if theFileName ≠ "" then
> set theFile to resolve
> theFileName
> try
> theFile as alias
> if (get linked
> files) does not contain theFile then
> add
> theFile
> end if
> end try
> end if
> end repeat
> end if
> end tell
> end repeat
> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
> end tell
> end tell
>
> Christiaan
>
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