> On 3 Mar 2022, at 14:29, Matthew Heun via Bibdesk-users
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Andreas:
>
> Thanks for the suggestion of trying to copy only one reference. In fact, I
> was trying to copy only a single reference.
>
> The rest of this email is further debugging and a summary. Spoiler: problem
> not fixed.
>
> * I note that the problem happens on a different machine (2017 iMac Pro)
> running macOS 12.2.1.
>
> * I wondered if the problem is with the .bib file. So I stripped the .bib
> file to a single reference. Copy Rich Text still fails with message
> "Generating data. Pleas wait." Here is entirety of the simple .bib file:
>
>> %% This BibTeX bibliography file was created using BibDesk.
>> %% https://bibdesk.sourceforge.io/
>>
>> %% Created for Matt at 2022-03-03 08:08:11 -0500
>>
>>
>> %% Saved with string encoding Unicode (UTF-8)
>>
>>
>>
>> @article{Semieniuk:2021aa,
>> author = {Gregor Semieniuk and Lance Taylor and Armon Rezai and Duncan
>> K. Foley},
>> date-added = {2021-01-29 20:57:42 -0500},
>> date-modified = {2021-01-29 21:01:07 -0500},
>> doi = {10.1038/s41558-020-00975-7},
>> journal = {Nature Climate Change},
>> month = {25 January},
>> pages = {1-14},
>> title = {Plausible energy demand patterns in a growing global economy
>> with climate policy},
>> year = {2021}}
>
> * Trying all of the other contextual menu "Copy ..." commands:
>
> Copy Cite Command
> Copy BibTeX Record
> Copy Minimal BibTeX Record
> Copy RIS Record
> Copy PDF
> Copy LaTeX
> Copy AMSrefs LaTeX
> Copy Item URL
> Copy Using Template
>
> All work as expected. The only Copy command that fails is "Copy Rich Text".
>
>
>
>
> So to summarize:
>
> * Copying a single reference as rich text causes beachball
> * For at least 10 minutes
> * With message "Generating data. Please wait ..."
> * On 2 different systems
> * With a very simple .bib file (only one entry, see above)
> * All other "Copy ..." commands in the contextual menu succeed
>
>
> I'm wondering if anyone can reproduce this problem with the simple .bib file
> above? If not, any ideas for how I can work around it?
>
> Thanks to those who have already sent ideas. And thanks in advance to those
> who will send ideas in the future.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matt
>
Strange that only this one fails, as it basically does the same as Copy as PDF,
just in the end getting text from the PDF. Does the TeX preview work? And can
you copy text from the TeX preview? And have you changed the bibtex style, or
edit the tex preview template?
Christiaan
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