[Bibdesk-users] Autofile problems with 1.3.13
Hey folks -
I just installed BibDesk version 1.3.13, and it's giving me a hard
time about the local file format I've been using for autofile. I
use the cite key as the local file name, so my custom file format
string was simply %f{Cite Key}... but now 1.3.13 says that this is
invalid because Format for local file requires a unique specifier.
I'm fairly certain that cite keys are required to be unique, so I
think this is a bug. Thoughts?
Thanks!
Best, Chris MacMinn
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Re: [Bibdesk-users] Autofile problems with 1.3.13
I use the cite key as the local file name, so my custom file format
string was simply %f{Cite Key}... but now 1.3.13 says that this is
invalid because Format for local file requires a unique specifier.
I'm fairly certain that cite keys are required to be unique, so I
think this is a bug. Thoughts?
Cite keys should be unique within a document, but it's not
guaranteed. AutoFile needs a specifier that lets it create a unique
filename on disk, since the filenames on your disk are independent of
your document and cite keys.
Hm. So here's my problem -- for cite keys, I use something like
first author's last name-journal-year followed by a lowercase
letter if necessary for uniqueness. I can't auto-generate them
because I use my own quirky abbreviations for journal names (e.g.,
Journal of Fluid Mechanics is jfm, but Annual Review of Fluid
Mechanics is annrevfm). Each cite key is unique, so I use them as
autofile specifiers and all of my references live happily in a single
folder on my disk. Is there any way to achieve this in 1.3.13?
I suppose that this is a lengthy way of asking, Is there any way to
have the cite key and the file name be the same?
I think there was a post on this yesterday as well.
Yes, I see that now -- sorry I missed it. I apologize for the overlap.
Thanks very much for your help.
Best, Chris
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I use the cite key as the local file name, so my custom file format
string was simply %f{Cite Key}... but now 1.3.13 says that this
is
invalid because Format for local file requires a unique
specifier.
I'm fairly certain that cite keys are required to be unique, so I
think this is a bug. Thoughts?
Cite keys should be unique within a document, but it's not
guaranteed. AutoFile needs a specifier that lets it create a unique
filename on disk, since the filenames on your disk are independent
of
your document and cite keys.
I suppose that this is a lengthy way of asking, Is there any way to
have the cite key and the file name be the same?
Yes and no. See also my other post. Note that the cite key generated
this way is unique *for the publication*, but for files it has to be
unique *for the file* (on disk). These are different requirements, in
particular now that a publication can have several files. Just use %f
{Cite Key}%u0%e. This will most of the time create a file with the
same name as the cite key, but if necessary (and only if necessary)
makes it unique. And you'd want that anyway to avoid overwriting a
file.
Christiaan
Ah, interesting. I was not aware that %u0 was an option... I
assumed X had to be greater than 0 in the %uX expression. This is
perhaps not as clear as it could be in the help files.
Thanks!
Best, Chris
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