All fields are "searchable" through using Smart Groups. Just hit
command-option-G and you'll be good to go with Annote, Abstract, or any other
field you can dream up. Plus the searches are saved.
Thinking out loud here, perhaps there is some tweak to the UI that could make
this more obvious? Al
On 2008-03-24, at 11:29 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
> On 24 Mar 2008, at 7:16 PM, James Howison wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mar 24, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mar 24, 2008, at 1:29 PM, Daniele Pontillo wrote:
Hmm,
and what about all the scientific publishers?
In
On 2008-03-18, at 3:43 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>>
>> But even in the bst-styles I encountered you find a "author or editor
>> or organization" (iirc sometimes organization is replaced by key for
>> sorting) because with a paper from an organization (where the author
>> is the organization a
On 2008-03-09, at 1:44 PM, Ingrid Giffin wrote:
>
> On 3/9/08 2:18 PM, "Christiaan Hofman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 9 Mar 2008, at 8:47 PM, Ingrid Giffin wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I've been having some trouble with URLs in the "linked documents"
>>> pane. The
>>> URL is correct, but when
first, replaceChars needs to be "my replaceChars" - you have to tell
AppleScript where to find the replaceChars routine (which needs to be
in the same file as the below script).
So the full script (for you) should look like the below, assuming that
you a)want to replace the url field and b)w
I wrote the original script; I've attached it for easy reference
(Script Hook Did Auto File.scpt). Additionally, I've modified it
slightly to run manually as well (Local File to Local-URL.scpt), so if
you can't get the script hook one working, you can try the manual
version (it runs on the
On 2008-02-19, at 2:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Would it reduce the confusion to just save as UTF-8 by default? As
>> long
>> as TeX conversion is enabled, that should (usually) be fine for TeX
>> users who work with ASCII exclusively. I save my files as UTF-8
>> just to
>> avoid this
On 2008-02-18, at 9:54 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Alexander H. Montgomery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On 2008-02-18, at 9:02 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>>
>>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 2008-02-18, at 9:02 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Alexander H. Montgomery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>> On 2008-02-15, at 3:00 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Frid
> On 2008-02-15, at 3:00 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
>>
>> On Friday, February 15, 2008, at 02:43PM, "Alexander H. Montgomery"
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2008-02-15, at 1:53 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>>>
On 2008-02-15, at 1:53 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
> I've been playing with some changes to BibDesk for my own use. If
> anyone's interested, take a look at
>
> http://homepage.mac.com/amaxwell/.Public/BibDesk.app.zip
>
> (10.5 required). This answers a few past suggestions to some extent:
>
>
Whoops, the previous email still contained the debugging code (display
dialog). The following removes that.
On 2008-02-08, at 2:21 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
> On Friday, February 08, 2008, at 02:12PM, "Jan Erik Moström" <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]
> > wrote:
>> Adam R. Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 2008-02-08, at 2:21 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
> On Friday, February 08, 2008, at 02:12PM, "Jan Erik Moström" <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]
> > wrote:
>> Adam R. Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08-02-08 14.00
>>
>>> The old format is unsupported as of 1.3.13. Some of the UI is still
>>> present (you ca
Because if you attach more than one file to a given publication, they
can't be named the same thing. Hence the file name specifier requires
a unique specifier in addition to the cite key.
-AHM
On 2008-02-08, at 12:13 PM, Jan Erik Moström wrote:
> Christiaan Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08-02-0
On 2008-01-29, at 8:23 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
> On 29 Jan 2008, at 5:16 PM, Chris Goedde wrote:
>
>> On Jan 28, 2008, at 5:58 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>>>
>>> I say that because there is a choice: do you want %u, %U, %n, and
>>> how
>>> many characters and where? We can't know, beca
Maybe the dialog box should by default automatically add a unique
specifier for the user? Just trying to think about how to make this
question come up a little less...
-A
On 2008-01-28, at 12:43 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
> I wish people would actually read the alerts they get. It clearly
On 2008-01-25, at 7:31 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
> On 25 Jan 2008, at 2:27 PM, nicolas nicolas wrote:
>
>>
>> 1- I would like to know how to sort the publications by person with
>> a counter of the number of publications by person.
>>
>
> That's far too complex a criterium. It's even hard fo
On 2008-01-18, at 10:14 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote:
> Hi, all,
>
> I'm puzzled about Linked Files, and wonder what I'm doing wrong.
>
> I do the following:
> - edit a 'pub' entry for which I have a document stored locally
> (either pdf or djvu).
> - I then drag the icon for the document f
es/URLs.
>
> Christiaan
>
> On 8 Jan 2008, at 5:35 AM, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote:
>
>> Actually, it's not about *visual* differentiation (which I can do),
>> but differentiation that can, say, be discerned by an AppleScript
>> or a
>> Smart Folder. (
I've updated my book AppleScripts to version 0.4.3 to fix the problems
with 1.3.13 and problems with WorldCat. These scripts search WorldCat,
Amazon, and the Library of Congress, offering a quick way of fixing
existing book cites or adding new ones. All are available at
http://people.reed.ed
Fixed version is now up. See Article JSTOR Download.scpt at:
http://people.reed.edu/~ahm/Projects/Citation/BibDesk/
-AHM
On 2008-01-13, at 10:22 AM, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote:
> It accesses the URL via
>
> set theURL to the value of field "URL" of thePub
&g
It accesses the URL via
set theURL to the value of field "URL" of thePub
which needs to be changed to
set theURL to linked URL 1 of thePub
I'm in the process of fixing my scripts to work with 1.3.13 properly.
-AHM
On 2008-01-13, at 10:12 AM, Christiaan Hofman w
On 2008-01-08, at 3:55 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
> Hopefully you know that you can drag files to rearrange them
> currently, and the order will be preserved? That's sort of tedious,
> but you can probably script it as well.
Really? I don't see this in the latest nightly. Dragging verticall
On 2008-01-07, at 11:04 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
> On Jan 7, 2008, at 8:35 PM, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote:
>
>> Actually, it's not about *visual* differentiation (which I can do),
>> but differentiation that can, say, be discerned by an AppleScript
>>
Actually, it's not about *visual* differentiation (which I can do),
but differentiation that can, say, be discerned by an AppleScript or a
Smart Folder. (For the record, 4938 refs, 3119 single files, and 304 >
1 file).
For example, I put together syllabi with an AppleScript that copies
ref
I was just working with the new file view; it occurs to me that at
some point (not to hold up 1.3.13), it might be helpful for users to
be able to differentiate between the multiple attached files. For
example, I have articles, summaries of articles and books, and tables
of contents attache
On 2008-01-04, at 12:33 PM, Ingrid Giffin wrote:
>
The 'authors' are actually editors but that's how it came from
the Library search. If I move them to the editor field and
create a 'child' of one of the chapters, it fills in the Title
with 'Religion in republican Italy'
The sample script doesn't run due to an error with making linked urls.
See bug report:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1864179&group_id=61487&atid=497423
On 2008-01-04, at 9:31 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
> Sent this to the dev list earlier by mistake.
>
> The latest nig
Two questions:
1)Does the Orphaned Files feature use the new aliases now, or the old
local-url fields?
2)The Orphaned Files currently will list files within folders even if
the folder isn't orphaned itself (i.e., a publication links to a
folder). It seems to me that it should ignore the cont
It would be helpful to put a cap on the number of records to put
thumbnails in the sidebar (similar to the maximum number of items to
show in the preview window); I accidentally had it open when I
selected my entire bibliography, and had to force-quit.
It could even use the same maximum as t
Seeing as file migration is, in fact, automatic on opening, isn't the
only function of "migrate" effectively to delete your old local-url
and url fields? As such, shouldn't it say something like "Your files
have been migrated. Do you want to remove the old url and local-url
fields?"
-AHM
On 2007-12-30, at 7:08 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
> On Dec 30, 2007, at 7:59 AM, P Kishor wrote:
>
>> I am, slowly, slowly, graduating from using BD just as a basic
>> library, and learning all manner of delightful little features in it.
>> While doing so, I came across Alex Montgomery's ISBN l
On 2007-12-29, at 9:37 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
> Next nightly build will have support for file count in smart groups,
> and an attachment column as in Mail. Please test.
>
> The field name you need is "Local File" with a space; pick it off the
> dropdown menu, because you can't type it manuall
On 2007-12-29, at 2:52 PM, Ingrid Giffin wrote:
> On 12/29/07 2:35 PM, "Adam R. Maxwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Dec 29, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Derick Fay wrote:
>>
>>> One thing I miss (having migrated my files) is the display of the
>>> file icons in the column view (the new file fields
On 2007-12-29, at 12:13 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
> On 29 Dec 2007, at 8:38 PM, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote:
>
>> Two points regarding the new URL/file system:
>>
>> 1)When URLs are dropped onto the side pane, a "change field" script
>> hook is
Two points regarding the new URL/file system:
1)When URLs are dropped onto the side pane, a "change field" script
hook is not activated. Activating this script hook would be very
useful for those of us who extensively use the "url" field in our
bibliographies, since a hook could then be crea
I think that the current setup is probably optimal; for those who wish
to view their papers, the Preview pane can be set to "linked
file" (perhaps there should be a way of selecting which linked file is
displayed?), while the existing thumbnails should be good enough to
identify which of se
On 2007-12-20, at 11:58 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>> 3)When a file is selected in the file pane, if pressing space opened
>> Quick Look, this would make it nicely consistent with the Finder.
>>
>> -AHM
>
> And perhaps Return opens the file?
That would be superb. Option-double click does QL, re
On 2007-12-20, at 2:20 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
> Database > Migrate Files, a new assistant to migrate file and URL
> fields to the new file icon interface. It has some options like
> removing the original fields. Note that this is undoable, so you can
> safely experiment with it.
1)This appe
A check to see if:
a)The first two letters of an author's first name are both capitalized
and
b)The first name is only two letters long
Would do this, although this should be done in AppleScript, not in
BibDesk, as it's a pretty specialized "cleanup" check, and would break
in cases of other
Mike (or anyone who knows the code):
Which sites are currently supported (besides Google Scholar)? Should
there be default bookmarks for the search pages for those sites?
-AHM
On Nov 15, 2007, at 10:12 AM, Michael McCracken wrote:
> Hi Ingrid, the web groups feature has specific code for the
On Nov 15, 2007, at 1:58 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
> On 15 Nov 2007, at 10:51 PM, Hendrik wrote:
>
BTW, clicking on a PDF link in Google Scholar (and presumably
elsewhere) loads it quite nicely in the window, but then tells me
that
it "Failed to read HTML string
On Nov 15, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote:
>
> On Nov 14, 2007, at 9:57 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>>
>> On Wednesday, November 14, 2007, at 09:44AM, "Alexander H.
>> Montgomery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> *With searches, it
On Nov 14, 2007, at 9:57 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, November 14, 2007, at 09:44AM, "Alexander H.
> Montgomery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> *With searches, it's clear what can and can't be searched. With Web,
>> it's no
A few hiccups:
*The web bookmarks only seem to be available when "Web" is active in
the left pane; they should probably be universally available.
*With searches, it's clear what can and can't be searched. With Web,
it's not (there's also no Help button in the URL bar). Some default
bookmark
On Nov 10, 2007, at 5:51 AM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote:
> On Nov 10, 2007, at 4:10 AM, Simon Spiegel wrote:
>
>>
>> On 10.11.2007, at 09:55, Hendrik wrote:
>>
Something I noticed which no one seems to have mentioned yet: For
some reason Google Scholar always gives the title in double
Another option to get this to work more consistently for users who
haven't set their BibTeX preference in Google Scholar is to use the
"Related Links" URL in each entry to craft a URL that leads to the
BibTeX. For example, the "related links" for a piece might look like
http://scholar.google
Will there be an installer for the quicklook plugin under 10.5? (Too
bad the file:// URLs don't work...)
Also, what happened to the new drag-n-drop file interface that was
discussed a little while ago?
-AHM
On Nov 3, 2007, at 11:41 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
> On Nov 3, 2007, at 10:20 AM, A
On Nov 2, 2007, at 6:57 PM, James Howison wrote:
>>
>> One problem is that many PDF's from professionally published journals
>> seem to be locked and so don't permit extracting their text.
>
> Yes, I've written to a few publishers about that. It's really silly,
> honestly who makes money out of u
Although working on integration between an open-source project like
BibDesk and a closed-source, for-pay product such as Mellel seems
problematic as a student project. The question is, what open-source
word processor is a good option? Not much comes to mind. LyX as a
LaTeX front-end is stil
I was just working with Pages, Quicksilver, and BibDesk, highlighing
a word in Pages and expecting to find a service from BibDesk that did
a Database Search with the selection to activate using Quicksilver.
To my (mild) surprise, there wasn't one. Would this be a useful and
easy addition to
On Oct 1, 2007, at 11:03 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
> On 1 Oct 2007, at 7:28 PM, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote:
>
>> B. The other option (one or the other has to be done, otherwise the
>> recipient will get a .bib file with a lot of broken PDF links) is to
>> ch
would be creating a very large
> tarball, running out of disk space or wasting cpu cycles.
>
> Kasper
>
>
>> Christiaan
>>
>> On 30 Sep 2007, at 9:35 PM, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote:
>>
>>> Hmm, looks like a good start. A couple of issues:
>>>
a folder as a local-url-type field, it instead put
in a zero KB file.
-A
On Sep 30, 2007, at 11:09 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
> On 28 Sep 2007, at 9:18 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
>>
>> On Friday, September 28, 2007, at 12:15PM, "Alexander H.
>> Montg
On this topic, I was thinking of putting in a feature request along
these lines: Having an export option that tarballed (or zipped, or
whatever) selected or all references, along with attached PDFs, in
such a way that someone else could open up the library and have the
PDF links "just work.
On Sep 12, 2007, at 10:02 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, September 12, 2007, at 09:48AM, "Rainer Sigwald"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On 9/12/07, Adam R. Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Okay, using a document-relative path certainly makes sense in
>>> that situatio
I have a general-purpose set of scripts for changing fields (Field
Scripts) that, in concert with Christiaan's Capitalize scripts, will
capitalize any field (including authors). For both, see
http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/BibDesk_Applescripts
-AHM
On Sep 3, 2007, at 2:42 PM,
Oops, you're right. That would be why I used iKey instead...
On Sep 5, 2007, at 9:18 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
> Does that work? I thought that compares the title, which changes all
> the time.
>
> Christiaan
>
> On 5 Sep 2007, at 6:08 PM, Alexander H. Montgomery wr
Interestingly enough, I already have this mapped (cmd-shift-K) using
iKey. You could also use System Preferences to set up a key. But this
might be a general-enough useful thing to put into the app. (Although
maybe not right now...)
-AHM
On Sep 5, 2007, at 5:33 AM, François Briatte wrote:
Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, August 28, 2007, at 02:29PM, "Alexander H. Montgomery"
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> I'd like to keep the Applescript access to the paths the same, as I
>>> often set and change the local-url field (as wel
I'd like to keep the Applescript access to the paths the same, as I
often set and change the local-url field (as well as other local-url-
type fields) through AppleScript. Physical access is a little less
important, but allows me to see currently at a glance whether
something seems amiss wit
On Aug 20, 2007, at 5:40 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
> On Aug 20, 2007, at 17:04, François Briatte wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> May I ask for a quick update on these features:
>>
>> 1-- Is there a project of linking Locations to Publishers? I have the
>> feeling BibDesk could easily fill in "New
On Aug 20, 2007, at 5:40 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
> On Aug 20, 2007, at 17:04, François Briatte wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> May I ask for a quick update on these features:
>>
>> 1-- Is there a project of linking Locations to Publishers? I have the
>> feeling BibDesk could easily fill in "New
On Aug 9, 2007, at 7:49 AM, James Howison wrote:
>
> On Aug 8, 2007, at 4:15 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wednesday, August 08, 2007, at 01:12PM, "Alexander H.
>> Montgomery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> When I do a search in B
When I do a search in BibDesk, then click on a PDF that opens in Skim
or Preview, it automatically puts in my search in BibDesk as a search
in the Contents panel. While this would be useful when I'm doing a
search by File Content, the rest of the time it is an unnecessary
search (which slow
In Google Scholar, click "Scholar Preferences" then "Show links to
import Citations into->BibTeX"
For ISBNs, searching the appropriate library for the ISBN through the
Z39.50 interface will return the best results.
-AHM
On Aug 1, 2007, at 2:07 PM, Flo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a beginner at usin
On Jul 2, 2007, at 2:03 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
> On 2 Jul 2007, at 10:36 PM, Derick Fay wrote:
>
>> On Jul 2, 2007, at 3:06 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 2 Jul 2007, at 5:53 PM, Derick Fay wrote:
>>>
I'll also post this to the sf feature requests.
1) If I start
On Jun 22, 2007, at 8:26 AM, Niels Kobschätzki wrote:
> On Jun 22, 2007, at 5:03 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jun 21, 2007, at 23:08, Niels Kobschätzki wrote:
>>
>>> On Jun 22, 2007, at 7:52 AM, Niels Kobschätzki wrote:
I just found out that I could use iTunes for managing PDFs. It
On Jun 22, 2007, at 9:43 AM, Alex Hamann wrote:
>
> Am 22.06.2007 um 17:03 schrieb Adam R. Maxwell:
>
>
How are you guys handling your reference-materials?
>
> *snip
>>
>> I mainly have PDF files, with the odd HTML/PostScript/TIFF, all
>> managed with BibDesk's AutoFile. They're linked to r
Yep, that's it. I could write a quick AppleScript that goes through
them and checks using a "do shell script," I suppose...
-A
On Jun 18, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
> On Monday, June 18, 2007, at 10:55AM, "Alexander H. Montgomery"
> <[E
Right, but they don't sort between has-local-url-not-missing and has-
local-url-missing.
-A
On Jun 18, 2007, at 10:49 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
> On Monday, June 18, 2007, at 10:44AM, "Alexander H. Montgomery"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Is there
Is there any method or technique for finding publications that are
orphaned (i.e., have a local-url that isn't valid?) I know that
there's a method for the inverse (finding PDFs that don't have
publications). Some sort of "missing publication finder" item.
AppleScript suggestions welcome.
1)You can just specify the full (or relative) path to a single bib
file instead of placing a copy in every directory. All my .tex files
specify \bibliography{/Users/ahm/Papers/All} for the bib. Or you can
place a symbolic link (from Terminal: ln -s /Users/ahm/Papers/
All.bib .) instead of th
You can have BibDesk do the spring cleaning for you. By doing a
database find/replace on local-url, it'll ask you if you want to move
the papers to the new location. Or if you've already done the move,
you can do the database find/replace on the folder name. No need to
use TextWrangler.
On
Personally, I'm quite happy BibDesk has stayed far, far away from the
"Delicious Generation" look of apps coming out these days which have
a pretty facade, but then have serious usability and functionality
problems. (see: Papers) When a better UI improves functionality or
workflow, I'm all
Try
defaults read edu.ucsd.cs.mmccrack.bibdesk "NSOpen"
The program authors may correct me on this one...
-A
On Jun 9, 2007, at 4:08 PM, Zvi Biener wrote:
> Dear BibDeskers,
> I'm trying to write some BD applescripts (for quicksilver
> integration, and export of linked files, which I'll post t
Worldcat is only accessible from some locations; sometimes there's a
proxy they have to go through as well. Try LOC...
On May 22, 2007, at 4:02 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
> The WorldCat one does not work for me, it cannot get the
> connection. But I found no problem with eg Library of Congr
On May 21, 2007, at 5:43 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
> On Monday, May 21, 2007, at 05:40PM, "Alexander H. Montgomery"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Any chance that the MODS XML importer from COPAC could also be made
>> to work with regular importin
Any chance that the MODS XML importer from COPAC could also be made
to work with regular importing (e.g., cutting and pasting)? The
reason I ask is that I have a few sources that use MODS XML.
-AHM
On Apr 18, 2007, at 5:56 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
> COPAC should work again in the next nigh
tion. That, of course,
wouldn't work if the cite key hadn't been assigned yet.
I don't know if there's an easy way of exposing directly in
Applescript "the publication of window 1".
-AHM
On May 19, 2007, at 2:52 PM, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote:
> Here'
Here's a hacky way of doing it:
tell application "BibDesk"
set frontWindowName to the name of window 1
set theDoc to the document of window 1
set thePubs to (publications of theDoc whose value of field "title"
is frontWindowName)
set selection of theDoc to thePubs
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