Re: [Bibdesk-users] o/t question re: SVN

2008-07-09 Thread Rob Rye
On Jul 9, 2008, at 3:24 PM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: > On Jul 9, 2008, at 5:48 PM, Rob Rye wrote: > > > >> >> Please note though, that if you use subversion you are bound to have >> some serious problems with files created by several very useful Mac >> applications: >> >> Pages >> Keynote >> Omn

Re: [Bibdesk-users] o/t question re: SVN

2008-07-09 Thread Adam M. Goldstein
On Jul 9, 2008, at 5:48 PM, Rob Rye wrote: > > Please note though, that if you use subversion you are bound to have > some serious problems with files created by several very useful Mac > applications: > > Pages > Keynote > OmniGraffle (can work around this in OG by saving flat files) > iWeb > O

Re: [Bibdesk-users] o/t question re: SVN

2008-07-09 Thread James Howison
Hey sweet, thanks for those, Peter. On Jul 9, 2008, at 3:59 PM, Peter Cowan wrote: > I use mercurial, mostly because before leopard it was easiest to get a > repository up and running on. Leopard comes with SVN so this is less > true now. As for latex specific diff I've had luck with both of >

Re: [Bibdesk-users] o/t question re: SVN

2008-07-09 Thread Rob Rye
Regarding helper apps for SVN I use ZigVersion: http://zigzig.com/ If you have no need to upgrade svn from the version that comes with Leopard then ZigVersion is a great product. Academic licenses are free. In my experience, ZigVersion is quite stable, very easy to use, and has an intuitive

Re: [Bibdesk-users] o/t question re: SVN

2008-07-09 Thread Ista Zahn
>> In case anyone's interested, Mercurial has a new OS X GUI that actually works: http://www.jwwalker.com/pages/macmerc.html -Ista - Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that v

Re: [Bibdesk-users] o/t question re: SVN

2008-07-09 Thread Adam M. Goldstein
On Jul 9, 2008, at 1:42 PM, Derick Fay wrote: A scenario likely to occur would be that I will keep the master.bib file in an SVN repository, travel to some library without wi-fi internet access with my PowerBook, discover some new books that I add to my working copy of master.bib, make some cha

Re: [Bibdesk-users] o/t question re: SVN

2008-07-09 Thread Peter Cowan
I use mercurial, mostly because before leopard it was easiest to get a repository up and running on. Leopard comes with SVN so this is less true now. As for latex specific diff I've had luck with both of these.

Re: [Bibdesk-users] o/t question re: SVN

2008-07-09 Thread Mark Eli Kalderon
> > This is a bit off-topic but I have been thinking about using > subversion to manage versioning etc. on several writing projects. > Everything I've seen seems to be oriented towards team / multi-user > scenarios but it also seems that people use it for single-authored > projects. Stephan (and o

Re: [Bibdesk-users] o/t question re: SVN

2008-07-09 Thread Stephan Kurz
Stephan Kurz wrote: > Dear Derick, > I have tried Versions (beta) and another relatively new SVN client with > a nice timeline view which I cannot remember now, and these both gave me > an error when I tried connecting to my repository. That kept me with > SVNx though the other clients had a mu

Re: [Bibdesk-users] o/t question re: SVN

2008-07-09 Thread James Howison
On Jul 9, 2008, at 2:21 PM, Stephan Kurz wrote: > Dear Derick, > > it is not too off-topic (at least for me as BD is an essential, but > only > one piece in my workflow puzzle) as it reflects actual usage > scenarios… > > Derick Fay wrote: > >> This is a bit off-topic but I have been thinking

Re: [Bibdesk-users] o/t question re: SVN

2008-07-09 Thread Stephan Kurz
Dear Derick, it is not too off-topic (at least for me as BD is an essential, but only one piece in my workflow puzzle) as it reflects actual usage scenarios… Derick Fay wrote: > This is a bit off-topic but I have been thinking about using > subversion to manage versioning etc. on several writ

[Bibdesk-users] o/t question re: SVN

2008-07-09 Thread Derick Fay
> > A scenario likely to occur would be that I will keep the master.bib > file > in an SVN repository, travel to some library without wi-fi internet > access with my PowerBook, discover some new books that I add to my > working copy of master.bib, make some changes to particular pubs that > alrea

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Consolidating my Bibliography Chaos

2008-07-09 Thread Maxwell, Adam R
On 07/09/08 09:30, "James Howison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jul 9, 2008, at 11:26 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > >> >> On Jul 9, 2008, at 7:25 AM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: >> >>> On Jul 9, 2008, at 8:52 AM, Stephan Kurz wrote: >>> Dear all, I have been using BibDesk for

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Template formatting

2008-07-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 20 Jun 2008, at 10:30 AM, Arjan Tuijnder wrote: > Dear bibdesk users, > > I've been using bibdesk for years, but I've just started to explore > the export scripts for pages. I want recreate the reference style > prescribed by sedimentology, a journal of blackwellpublishing. > > I cannot figure

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Consolidating my Bibliography Chaos

2008-07-09 Thread James Howison
On Jul 9, 2008, at 11:26 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > > On Jul 9, 2008, at 7:25 AM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: > >> On Jul 9, 2008, at 8:52 AM, Stephan Kurz wrote: >> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> I have been using BibDesk for quite a while now (AFAIR since release >>> 0.73), > > Cool! I've no idea what v

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Consolidating my Bibliography Chaos

2008-07-09 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Jul 9, 2008, at 7:25 AM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: > On Jul 9, 2008, at 8:52 AM, Stephan Kurz wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> I have been using BibDesk for quite a while now (AFAIR since release >> 0.73), Cool! I've no idea what version I started using, but it was a couple months before Mike mo

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Consolidating my Bibliography Chaos

2008-07-09 Thread Stephan Kurz
Dear Christiaan and Adam, thanks for your responses! Both point into the direction that I can really start consolidating my master .bib file without worrying too much (after writing some backups, of course!) - so thank you for the positive answers as well! >> - Citekeys issue: >> Some were g

[Bibdesk-users] Template formatting

2008-07-09 Thread Arjan Tuijnder
Dear bibdesk users, I've been using bibdesk for years, but I've just started to explore the export scripts for pages. I want recreate the reference style prescribed by sedimentology, a journal of blackwellpublishing. I cannot figure out why I sometimes get 2 returns between references and s

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Consolidating my Bibliography Chaos

2008-07-09 Thread Adam M. Goldstein
On Jul 9, 2008, at 8:52 AM, Stephan Kurz wrote: > Dear all, > > I have been using BibDesk for quite a while now (AFAIR since release > 0.73), creating a lot of .bib files that cover pieces of my academic > work (one .bib file per article). These files are also spread across 3 > computers (and an S

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Consolidating my Bibliography Chaos

2008-07-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 9 Jul 2008, at 2:52 PM, Stephan Kurz wrote: > Dear all, > > I have been using BibDesk for quite a while now (AFAIR since release > 0.73), creating a lot of .bib files that cover pieces of my academic > work (one .bib file per article). That's longer than I've used it. > These files are also

Re: [Bibdesk-users] 1.3.18 release revisited

2008-07-09 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Jul 8, 2008, at 8:50 AM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: > On Jul 8, 2008, at 10:02 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > >> On Jul 5, 2008, at 10:29 AM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: >> >>> It looks like people are pretty happy with 1.3.17 nightlies as much >>> as >>> anyone is really using them at this during su

[Bibdesk-users] Consolidating my Bibliography Chaos

2008-07-09 Thread Stephan Kurz
Dear all, I have been using BibDesk for quite a while now (AFAIR since release 0.73), creating a lot of .bib files that cover pieces of my academic work (one .bib file per article). These files are also spread across 3 computers (and an SVN repository). To avoid duplicate bib entries, I would