Dear Ronald, And I forgot to mention that there is also the AppleScript 'Inspect Linked Files’ available. That script should work fine in your case and provide you with helpful information to diagnose the status of your PDF’s and the current meta data in your BibTeX file.
Andreas ETH Zurich Prof. em. Dr. Andreas Fischlin IPCC Vice-Chair WGII Systems Ecology - Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics CHN E 24 Universitaetstrasse 16 8092 Zurich SWITZERLAND andreas.fisch...@env.ethz.ch<mailto:andreas.fisch...@env.ethz.ch> www.sysecol.ethz.ch/people/andreas.fischlin.html<http://www.sysecol.ethz.ch/people/andreas.fischlin.hml> +41 44 633-6090 phone +41 44 633-1136 fax +41 79 595-4050 mobile Make it as simple as possible, but distrust it! ________________________________________________________________________ On 29/12/2020, at 00:08, Ronald Haynes <rhayne...@gmail.com<mailto:rhayne...@gmail.com>> wrote: Correct! A hack for sure to get up and running with bibdesk. Sincerely, Dr. Ronald D. Haynes Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics Chair, MSc and PhD Scientific Computing Programs Memorial University of Newfoundland We acknowledge that the lands on which Memorial University’s campuses are situated are in the traditional territories of diverse Indigenous groups, and we acknowledge with respect the diverse histories and cultures of the Beothuk, Mi’kmaq, Innu, and Inuit of this province. On Dec 28, 2020, 7:35 PM -0330, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com<mailto:cmhof...@gmail.com>>, wrote: That looks like it just drops the second file. Also problematic when anything else, like a title, has a semicolon in it. Christiaan On 28 Dec 2020, at 22:09, Ronald Haynes <rhayne...@gmail.com<mailto:rhayne...@gmail.com>> wrote: 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 We acknowledge that the lands on which Memorial University’s campuses are situated are in the traditional territories of diverse Indigenous groups, and we acknowledge with respect the diverse histories and cultures of the Beothuk, Mi’kmaq, Innu, and Inuit of this province. On Dec 28, 2020, 2:40 PM -0330, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com<mailto:cmhof...@gmail.com>>, wrote: On 28 Dec 2020, at 17:15, Ronald Haynes <rhayne...@gmail.com<mailto: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 _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users Christiaan _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
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