[Bibdesk-users] Smart capitalisation with BibDesk

2007-07-06 Thread François Briatte 
Hello all,

I think the following feature would improve greatly the writing of
personal templates.

The current 'capitalizedString' template key capitalises every single
word in a strong, such as a title.

Example taken from my personal template:

>> Gerring, J. and Barresi, P. A. (2003) 'Putting Ordinary Language To
Work: A Min-Max Strategy Of Concept Formation In The Social Sciences',
Journal of Theoretical Politics, 15(2), 201-232.

I believe having a few exceptions -- not capitalising a list of words
like 'of', 'and', 'in', 'the'… -- would help a lot. EndNote 10 does
this AFAIK.

Ideally, exceptions would be accessible and therefore modifiable
inside an Application Support or Preferences file that would allow
adding exceptions from other languages.

What do you think? Is that very difficult to add?

I apologise if this function already exists.

Best wishes,
François

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Re: [Bibdesk-users] Bibdesk in Wikipedia

2007-07-06 Thread Michael McCracken 

On Jul 5, 2007, at 9:10 PM, Christopher Eliot wrote:

> Hi -
>
> Since nobody's taken up your request to add Bibdesk to Wikipedia's  
> comparison chart of reference managing software, I'm happy to do  
> it, if someone will provide me with the correct answers. I'm not  
> sure of most of them. I've included some guesses.
>
> Thanks! If you don't want to do this, I can put it to the users list.

That's probably a good idea, as I don't know all the answers.
I'll CC the list.

>
> Chris
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 
> Comparison_of_reference_management_software
>
> General:
>
> Developer  BibDesk developers
> First public release

Wow, version 0.7b in April 2002 is the earliest I can track down…

> Latest stable version  1.3.6
> Cost (USD)  free
> Open source  yes
> License  GPL

Actually, BSD. Some of the subprograms we package are licensed  
differently, though.

> OS
>
> Windows  no
> Mac OS X  yes
> Linux  no
> BSD  no
> Unix  no
>
> Export:
>
> BibTeX  yes
> Endnote/Refer/BibIX  yes
> Medline
> MODS XML
> RIS  yes
> Other
>
> Import:
>
> BibTeX  yes
> Copac 
> CSA
> Endnote/Refer/BibIX  yes
> ISI
> Medline
> MODS XML
> Ovid
> PubMed
> RIS  yes
> SciFinder
> Other
>
> Citation styles:
>
> APA  [all of these get the footnote  
> JabRef gets, that citation styles are via BibTeX]
> Chicago/Turabian
> Harvard
> MLA
> Other
> Extension method
>
>
> Citation file formats:
>
> HTML  yes
> LaTeX  yes
> RTF  yes
> Plain text  yes
> RSS
> Other
>
> Word processor integration:
>
> Microsoft Word  no
> OpenOffice.org Writer  no
> Kile/LyX  no
> Other
>
> Database connectivity:
>
> ArXiv
> CiteSeer
> IEEE Xplore
> PubMed  yes
> Other
>
> Password protection and network versions
>
> Passworded
> Networking

There is a feature for networked sharing between Bibdesk users, but I  
don't know much about it…

> User-specific permissions
> Simultaneous write access


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[Bibdesk-users] Preview ERROR message

2007-07-06 Thread Michel dos Santos Mesquita 

Hi everyone,

I have been using BibDesk for a while now. However, the past few  
weeks, every time I try to preview a reference, I get the following  
message:


Tex preview generation failed
* ERROR: unable to create preview *

And the log file says:

-- TeX log file --
File: "/Users/research/Library/Caches/Cleanup At Startup/bibdesk-5/ 
bibpreview/bibpreview.log"

(null)

-- BibTeX log file ---
File: "/Users/research/Library/Caches/Cleanup At Startup/bibdesk-5/ 
bibpreview/bibpreview.blg"

(null)

-- BibDesk info --
 {
ivars:
delegate = "(null)"
file name = "bibpreview"
	template = "/Users/research/Library/Application Support/BibDesk/ 
previewtemplate.tex"
	TeX file = "/Users/research/Library/Caches/Cleanup At Startup/ 
bibdesk-5/bibpreview/bibpreview.tex"
	BibTeX file = "/Users/research/Library/Caches/Cleanup At Startup/ 
bibdesk-5/bibpreview/bibpreview.bib"

TeX binary path = "/usr/texbin"
Encoding = "Western (ASCII)"
BibTeX style = "abbrv"
Helper files = ()

environment:
SHELL = "/bin/bash"
BIBINPUTS = "(null)"
BSTINPUTS = "(null)"
PATH = "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/texbin:/usr/texbin" }



What could it be? I haven't figure it out yet!
Thanks,

Michael



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Re: [Bibdesk-users] Bibdesk in Wikipedia

2007-07-06 Thread Christiaan Hofman 

On 6 Jul 2007, at 7:11 PM, Michael McCracken wrote:

>
> On Jul 5, 2007, at 9:10 PM, Christopher Eliot wrote:
>
>> Hi -
>>
>> Since nobody's taken up your request to add Bibdesk to Wikipedia's
>> comparison chart of reference managing software, I'm happy to do
>> it, if someone will provide me with the correct answers. I'm not
>> sure of most of them. I've included some guesses.
>>
>> Thanks! If you don't want to do this, I can put it to the users list.
>
> That's probably a good idea, as I don't know all the answers.
> I'll CC the list.
>
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
>> Comparison_of_reference_management_software
>>
>> General:
>>
>> Developer  BibDesk developers
>> First public release
>
> Wow, version 0.7b in April 2002 is the earliest I can track down…
>
>> Latest stable version  1.3.6
>> Cost (USD)  free
>> Open source  yes
>> License  GPL
>
> Actually, BSD. Some of the subprograms we package are licensed
> differently, though.
>
>> OS
>>
>> Windows  no
>> Mac OS X  yes
>> Linux  no
>> BSD  no
>> Unix  no
>>
>> Export:
>>
>> BibTeX  yes
>> Endnote/Refer/BibIX  yes

Not exactly. We can export EndNote XML.

>> Medline
>> MODS XML

yes

>> RIS  yes
>> Other
>>

any (templates)!

>> Import:
>>
>> BibTeX  yes
>> Copac

no

>> CSA

no

>> Endnote/Refer/BibIX  yes

I think only Refer at present.

>> ISI

yes

>> Medline

yes

>> MODS XML

yes

>> Ovid

no

>> PubMed

yes

>> RIS  yes
>> SciFinder

no

>> Other
>>

MARC, JSTOR, ReferenceMiner

>> Citation styles:
>>
>> APA  [all of these get the footnote
>> JabRef gets, that citation styles are via BibTeX]
>> Chicago/Turabian
>> Harvard
>> MLA
>> Other
>> Extension method

templates

>>
>>
>> Citation file formats:
>>
>> HTML  yes
>> LaTeX  yes
>> RTF  yes
>> Plain text  yes
>> RSS

through templates, yes

>> Other
>>
>> Word processor integration:
>>
>> Microsoft Word  no
>> OpenOffice.org Writer  no
>> Kile/LyX  no

partly, we can push to a lyx pipe

>> Other
>>

cocoa editors through input manager
any editor through services

>> Database connectivity:
>>
>> ArXiv
>> CiteSeer
>> IEEE Xplore
>> PubMed  yes
>> Other
>>

z39.50
other Entrez databases

>> Password protection and network versions
>>
>> Passworded

no

>> Networking
>

no, but...

> There is a feature for networked sharing between Bibdesk users, but I
> don't know much about it…
>
>> User-specific permissions
>> Simultaneous write access

NA.

Thanks!
Christiaan



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[Bibdesk-users] handling surname and numbers

2007-07-06 Thread Jason Davies 
I have an author "C. R. Phillips III" who I want to cite. If I 
protect the 'III' with 'Phillips' in BibDesk, then the reference 
in the text appears as Phillips III (1986) instead of 'Phillips 
1986'. But anything else I do messes up the entry in the Works 
Cited section where I want the author's name to be C. R. 
Phillips III. I looked up the treatment for 'jnr' but that gave 
me no clues. Can I have my cake and eat it here? I'm not sure 
how to even look this up in the documentation!

thanks.


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Re: [Bibdesk-users] Preview ERROR message

2007-07-06 Thread Adam R. Maxwell 

On Jul 6, 2007, at 10:30, Michel dos Santos Mesquita wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I have been using BibDesk for a while now. However, the past few  
> weeks, every time I try to preview a reference, I get the following  
> message:

In Terminal, what is the output of

ls -l /usr/texbin/bibtex && ls -l /usr/texbin/pdflatex

Make sure the paths in the Preview preference pane aren't red.  It  
looks like the TeX programs haven't even been run.

-- 
Adam


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Re: [Bibdesk-users] handling surname and numbers

2007-07-06 Thread Adam R. Maxwell 

On Jul 6, 2007, at 11:04, Jason Davies wrote:

> I have an author "C. R. Phillips III" who I want to cite. If I
> protect the 'III' with 'Phillips' in BibDesk, then the reference
> in the text appears as Phillips III (1986) instead of 'Phillips
> 1986'. But anything else I do messes up the entry in the Works
> Cited section where I want the author's name to be C. R.
> Phillips III. I looked up the treatment for 'jnr' but that gave
> me no clues. Can I have my cake and eat it here? I'm not sure
> how to even look this up in the documentation!

Did you try searching for "name" in the Help (I didn't...that's just a  
guess)?  See 
.  In this case, you have to use "von Last, Jr., First Middle", I  
think, so "Phillips, III, C. R." should give you correct results.

-- 
Adam

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Re: [Bibdesk-users] handling surname and numbers

2007-07-06 Thread Jason Davies 
>Did you try searching for "name" in the Help (I didn't...that's just a
>guess)?  See
>-Names

that's a bit obvious, don't you think? :-) (I was being much 
more technical and got blinded)

>>.  In this case, you have to use "von Last, Jr., First Middle", I
>think, so "Phillips, III, C. R." should give you correct results.

when I had finally worked out how to follow these difficult 
instructions, it works as hoped.

damn, the syntax is almost like Applescript. Impossible to 
guess, embarrassingly easy when you see it.

many thanks.


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Re: [Bibdesk-users] handling surname and numbers

2007-07-06 Thread Christiaan Hofman 

On 6 Jul 2007, at 8:51 PM, Jason Davies wrote:

>> Did you try searching for "name" in the Help (I didn't...that's  
>> just a
>> guess)?  See
>> > 20Help_2.html#Formatting
>> -Names
>
> that's a bit obvious, don't you think? :-) (I was being much
> more technical and got blinded)
>
>>> .  In this case, you have to use "von Last, Jr., First Middle", I
>> think, so "Phillips, III, C. R." should give you correct results.
>
> when I had finally worked out how to follow these difficult
> instructions, it works as hoped.
>
> damn, the syntax is almost like Applescript. Impossible to
> guess, embarrassingly easy when you see it.
>
> many thanks.

Why? It is quite standard name formatting. And moreover it's  
unavoidable to use such a format in general, because it has to  
uniquely define the components of the name, which First Middle von  
Last Jr definitely does not.

Christiaan


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Re: [Bibdesk-users] handling surname and numbers

2007-07-06 Thread Adam R. Maxwell 

On Jul 6, 2007, at 12:05, Christiaan Hofman wrote:

>
> On 6 Jul 2007, at 8:51 PM, Jason Davies wrote:
>
 .  In this case, you have to use "von Last, Jr., First Middle", I
>>> think, so "Phillips, III, C. R." should give you correct results.
>>
>> when I had finally worked out how to follow these difficult
>> instructions, it works as hoped.
>>
>> damn, the syntax is almost like Applescript. Impossible to
>> guess, embarrassingly easy when you see it.
>>
>> many thanks.

No problem.

> Why? It is quite standard name formatting. And moreover it's
> unavoidable to use such a format in general, because it has to
> uniquely define the components of the name, which First Middle von
> Last Jr definitely does not.

It's certainly unavoidable, but I always have to look at the comment  
in BibAuthor.m for the correct order, since I only add a name with a  
von or Jr part about once a year.  It's easier for me to add names as  
First Middle Last, so that's what I use in general.

-- 
Adam


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