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

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 to

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

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 cmhof...@gmail.comwrote: 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

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

2009-01-26 Thread Maxwell, Adam R
On 01/26/09 11:51, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com 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

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 cmhof...@gmail.com 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

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

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

[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] 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 get

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 cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 Jan 2009, at 9:10 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 01/26/09 11:51, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: Correction, the file icon does not seem to be the one for

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

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

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 ja...@howison.name:

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 cmhof...@gmail.com 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

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