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?
On 2008-03-18, at 3:43 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
snip
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 and no
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
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 I click to go to the URL,
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 problem,
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 Friday, February 15, 2008, at 02:43PM, Alexander H. Montgomery
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(As you probably
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],
Alexander H. Montgomery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2008-02-15, at 3:00 PM
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:
I've been playing with some changes to BibDesk for my own use. If
anyone's interested, take
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:
1) the
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] 08-02-08
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 can display legacy
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] 08-02-08
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, because we can't
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 for me to
Hofman wrote:
To come back to this, now that we have support for Finder labels in
the recent nightlies. What smart group support for this would be
useful?
Note that currently you can add smart groups based on the number of
linked files/URLs.
Christiaan
On 8 Jan 2008, at 5:35 AM, Alexander H
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
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
which needs
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 vertically
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
or a
Smart Folder. (For the record, 4938
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
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
The sample script doesn't run due to an error with making linked urls.
See bug report:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1864179group_id=61487atid=497423
On 2008-01-04, at 9:31 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
Sent this to the dev list earlier by mistake.
The latest nightly
On 2008-01-04, at 12:33 PM, Ingrid Giffin wrote:
snip
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' and leaves
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
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 lookup
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 manually.
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 created
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 not activated. Activating this script hook would be very
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 can't be added
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
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 not (there's also no Help button in the URL bar). Some default
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's clear what can and can't be searched. With Web,
it's
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
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,
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
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:
Names and fields: It currently drops all the PDFs into the same dir
as the .bib file. It could instead create a folder hierarchy
based
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.
Montgomery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On this topic, I
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 situation. The question
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:
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 Haven when I
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 BibDesk, then click on a PDF that opens in
Skim
or Preview
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
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 using
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 references in
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