Dear John,
On Fri, 26-06-2015, at 22:58, John Kitchin <jkitc...@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > You could have multiple file fields I suppose, and adapt [1] to give you > a choice of which one to open. That is an intriguing suggestion. I'll try to play with it. > > Personally, I have one pdf per bibtex entry, named by the key of the > entry, in a directory called bibtex-pdfs somewhere defined by > org-ref-pdf-directory. There are ~1300 pdfs in there now. I always > access them through helm bibtex. > > admittedly, I don't have the SI or other stuff around usually. I don't > use bibtex to keep track of the directories where I write manuscripts > either. > I don't use bibtex to keep track of the dirs where I write manuscripts either, but SI et al I often do want to store. The SI more and more as time goes by, given the current policy of many journals of moving the methods details to SI ---I could merge PDFs into a single one, but that is another step. > You could always make links to these other things in the associated > notes entry. or put org-links in a bibtex field, and then you can open > them with C-c o (if you setup links to work everywhere). That way, > opening the pdf is easy, and opening the other things is just opening > the entry and running the link open command. That is a great suggestion. However, I just realized that I would not be able to then open any of the links in an Android device (where I do part of my reading) or in, say, JabRef (I'd need to have a script run to reformat them, but then propagating changes both ways starts getting very cumbersome). I need to think some more about this. Thanks for your suggestions. Best, R. > > Ramon Diaz-Uriarte writes: > >> Dear All, >> >> (I am not sure this is the appropriate place, but this is neither a bug >> report nor an feature request about helm-bibtex or org-ref, but a question >> from ignorance and I am learning quite a bit from the other helm-bibtex >> questions). >> >> >> How do people deal with multiple files that are logically associated to an >> entry? >> >> >> I've been used to keeping the main file, supplementary materials, >> associated code, etc, in a directory per entry. This kind of modus operandi >> is something I adopted (fell into?) easily with Zotero and Mendeley. But I >> am not sure that this is the best way to proceed. >> >> >> If I end up with multiple files per directory, helm-bibtex-find-pdf[1] >> cannot know which one I want to open. I could keep the main file in the >> general directory, so it is found directly by helm-bibtex-find-pdf and >> specify other files (of secondary usage) in the "file" field (and maybe >> open them via ebib when/if needed)? But this does not seem >> elegant. Another is to have an entry per file, with unique key, but this >> does not seem right. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> R. >> >> >> [1] Thanks to Titus' help >> (https://github.com/tmalsburg/helm-bibtex/issues/53), opening a PDF that is >> given in the "file" field with the directory name is now within my reach. -- Ramon Diaz-Uriarte Department of Biochemistry, Lab B-25 Facultad de Medicina Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Arzobispo Morcillo, 4 28029 Madrid Spain Phone: +34-91-497-2412 Email: rdia...@gmail.com ramon.d...@iib.uam.es http://ligarto.org/rdiaz