Re: [Bibdesk-users] Foreword to a book

2009-01-26 Thread Simon Spiegel
On 27.01.2009, at 00:33, Richard Davis wrote: I see that biblatex-chicago-notes has "customc": "This is the entry type to use if the main focus of a reference is an introduction, afterword, or forward to a book, either by the same or a different author." No need for custom fields to solve

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Intended meaning of publication icon

2009-01-26 Thread Maxwell, Adam R
On 01/26/09 16:00, "Christiaan Hofman" wrote: > Yes, but that's all about the window title, not the represented file. > I can only find one vague reference to the represented file, and as > soon as they get specific they forget to mention it. Well, for my original comment I was actually going of

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Intended meaning of publication icon

2009-01-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 27 Jan 2009, at 12:51 AM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: > On 01/26/09 15:39, "Christiaan Hofman" wrote: > One reason for the swizzling was also because we use this in various windows (it really should be possible out-of-the-box to override the default behavior). >>> >>>

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Intended meaning of publication icon

2009-01-26 Thread Maxwell, Adam R
On 01/26/09 15:39, "Christiaan Hofman" wrote: >>> One reason for the swizzling was also because we use this in various >>> windows (it really should be possible out-of-the-box to override the >>> default behavior). >> >> I think swizzling is used in a number of places for convenience >> (I've do

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Intended meaning of publication icon

2009-01-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 27 Jan 2009, at 12:21 AM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: > > > > On 01/26/09 14:03, "Christiaan Hofman" wrote: > >> >> On 26 Jan 2009, at 9:55 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 01/26/09 12:17, "Christiaan Hofman" wrote: >>> On 26 Jan 2009, at 9:10 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote:

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Foreword to a book

2009-01-26 Thread Richard Davis
I see that biblatex-chicago-notes has "customc": "This is the entry type to use if the main focus of a reference is an introduction, afterword, or forward to a book, either by the same or a different author." I'll give that a crack... Richard Davis 2009/1/26 James Howison : > Hope that others

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Intended meaning of publication icon

2009-01-26 Thread Maxwell, Adam R
On 01/26/09 14:03, "Christiaan Hofman" wrote: > > On 26 Jan 2009, at 9:55 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: > >> >> >> >> On 01/26/09 12:17, "Christiaan Hofman" wrote: >> >>> >>> On 26 Jan 2009, at 9:10 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: >>> On 01/26/09 11:51, "Christiaan Hofman" wrote:

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Intended meaning of publication icon

2009-01-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 26 Jan 2009, at 9:55 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: > > > > On 01/26/09 12:17, "Christiaan Hofman" wrote: > >> >> On 26 Jan 2009, at 9:10 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: >> >>> On 01/26/09 11:51, "Christiaan Hofman" wrote: >>> Correction, the file icon does not seem to be the one for the li

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Foreword to a book

2009-01-26 Thread James Howison
Hope that others have more specific suggestions, but I think this might be one of those areas in which bibtex's data model breaks down. So you really just want to ask yourself, "what do I need it to look like in my particular style" and then screw around with different options until you ge

[Bibdesk-users] Foreword to a book

2009-01-26 Thread Richard Davis
in my thesis I need to cite a guest foreword to a book The book is authored by smith, but the foreword is authored by milbank. There is no editor. I don't know what publication type to make the foreword by milbank. None of the options seem to fit. Any tips? Richard Davis -

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Intended meaning of publication icon

2009-01-26 Thread Maxwell, Adam R
On 01/26/09 12:17, "Christiaan Hofman" wrote: > > On 26 Jan 2009, at 9:10 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: > >> On 01/26/09 11:51, "Christiaan Hofman" wrote: >> >>> Correction, the file icon does not seem to be the one for the >>> linked file, but >>> for the .bib document file. This is not as i

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Intended meaning of publication icon

2009-01-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 26 Jan 2009, at 9:10 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: > On 01/26/09 11:51, "Christiaan Hofman" wrote: > >> Correction, the file icon does not seem to be the one for the >> linked file, but >> for the .bib document file. This is not as intended, probably some >> OS update >> has changed AppKit's

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Intended meaning of publication icon

2009-01-26 Thread Maxwell, Adam R
On 01/26/09 11:51, "Christiaan Hofman" wrote: > Correction, the file icon does not seem to be the one for the linked file, but > for the .bib document file. This is not as intended, probably some OS update > has changed AppKit's behavior (I seem to recall that it worked even after > Leopard was r

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Intended meaning of publication icon

2009-01-26 Thread Jonas Zimmermann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 26.01.2009 um 19:41 schrieb Christiaan Hofman: > > On 26 Jan 2009, at 8:22 PM, Jonas Zimmermann wrote: >> I just stumbled across some unexpected behaviour: I had the info >> window of a publication open and wanted to add it to a keyword group >> (

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Intended meaning of publication icon

2009-01-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > On 26 Jan 2009, at 8:22 PM, Jonas Zimmermann wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hi, >> >> I just stumbled across some unexpected behaviour: I had the info >> window of a publication open and wanted to add

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Intended meaning of publication icon

2009-01-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 26 Jan 2009, at 8:22 PM, Jonas Zimmermann wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > I just stumbled across some unexpected behaviour: I had the info > window of a publication open and wanted to add it to a keyword group > (just like you can add a publication by dragg

[Bibdesk-users] Intended meaning of publication icon

2009-01-26 Thread Jonas Zimmermann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I just stumbled across some unexpected behaviour: I had the info window of a publication open and wanted to add it to a keyword group (just like you can add a publication by dragging from the list). I grabbed it at its icon as I thought this

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Open Meta tag support in BibDesk?

2009-01-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 26 Jan 2009, at 6:57 PM, Rolf Schmolling wrote: Hi Christiaan, sorry for my amateur ideas. Some questions: given that Skim would overwrite any openmeta-tags when saving in context of making annotations etc. on papers managed by BibDesk, would it be possible to re-write those tags back

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Open Meta tag support in BibDesk?

2009-01-26 Thread Rolf Schmolling
Hi Christiaan, sorry for my amateur ideas. Some questions: given that Skim would overwrite any openmeta-tags when saving in context of making annotations etc. on papers managed by BibDesk, would it be possible to re-write those tags back AFTER Skim did its work? Would that call for BibDes

Re: [Bibdesk-users] pubmed import clean-up script

2009-01-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 26 Jan 2009, at 5:29 PM, Mark Moll wrote: > The PubMed search and import functionality in BibDesk is great, but it > creates a large number of "bogus" fields. It also appends a period to > the end of the title and the year field is sometimes used as a date > field. I wrote a little AppleScript

[Bibdesk-users] pubmed import clean-up script

2009-01-26 Thread Mark Moll
The PubMed search and import functionality in BibDesk is great, but it creates a large number of "bogus" fields. It also appends a period to the end of the title and the year field is sometimes used as a date field. I wrote a little AppleScript to clean up imported entries. I know next to n

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Open Meta tag support in BibDesk?

2009-01-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Moving this to the bibdesk list from the Skim list. On 25 Jan 2009, at 5:54 PM, Rolf Schmolling wrote: Hi, I support this idea! What about converting the keywords one applies to Bibdesk-items into openmeta-tags (I mean in addition) Thanks, Rolf I'd indeed say this is more a feature for a m

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Colour labels like in Finder possible?

2009-01-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 26 Jan 2009, at 3:47 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > > On Jan 26, 2009, at 11:08 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > >> I was thinking of coloring the whole row background with an arbitrary >> color. Even more compelling because nobody knows what the selection >> color is. The examples you mention are

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Colour labels like in Finder possible?

2009-01-26 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Jan 26, 2009, at 11:08 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: I was thinking of coloring the whole row background with an arbitrary color. Even more compelling because nobody knows what the selection color is. The examples you mention are more exceptions (indeed, Apple often doesn't follow it's own de

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Colour labels like in Finder possible?

2009-01-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 26 Jan 2009, at 3:00 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > > On Jan 26, 2009, at 1:25 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > >> If you put it in a row, what's the real advantage over using a >> rating field? > > Ratings are more limited in meaning. Static groups are what I'd use > in BibDesk where I'd use c