Re: [Bibdesk-users] Poll: Organising your papers

2008-06-18 Thread Christian
Thanks for your reply. I now found a solution that works. I will place all the files on one folder in certain subfolders which are named as the bib-file. the PDFs named like the citekey - that should do the job. Thanks Christian

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Poll: Organising your papers

2008-06-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Thanks for the samples. The problem is that .aux files are a true mess, latex just dumps stuff in there at any time, so there's no organization (apart from having lines). The parsing in BD was assuming some kind of organization of the citations, which sometimes is there and sometimes isn't.

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Poll: Organising your papers

2008-06-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 18 Jun 2008, at 5:29 AM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: > > On Jun 17, 2008, at 7:41 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > >> OK, and that one has never worked. You're apparently using some >> special style, not the default way to write bibliographies. >> >> Christiaan >> >> On 18 Jun 2008, at 1:33 AM, Ada

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Poll: Organising your papers

2008-06-18 Thread James Owen
> Weird. That used to work. I agree though, it doesn't now. Perhaps > it would be best if there was a menu item for it anyway, "Select > References From .aux File" I think that would help people find it. > > But first we should check it works, can anyone get the select from aux > file to work

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Poll: Organising your papers

2008-06-17 Thread Jan Erik Moström
Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08-06-17 22.34 >from time to time I think about the organisation of my papers >with using the auto file feature of bibdesk. I used to keep my papers in one single folder and then use the auto-file feature of BibDesk to put them there. I now use the same basic con

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Poll: Organising your papers

2008-06-17 Thread Adam M. Goldstein
On Jun 17, 2008, at 7:41 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > OK, and that one has never worked. You're apparently using some > special style, not the default way to write bibliographies. > > Christiaan > > On 18 Jun 2008, at 1:33 AM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: > >> I included an aux file in a post in th

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Poll: Organising your papers

2008-06-17 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Jun 17, 2008, at 8:31 PM, James Howison wrote: > I wonder if the same could be done with the .tex file (ie look for > \cite, \citep, \citet and parse the citekeys). I'd recommend against that, just because of the customized bib packages out there (e.g. jurabib). Supporting those in the inp

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Poll: Organising your papers

2008-06-17 Thread James Howison
I tried the latest nightly, and now I see that one works, while another doesn't. I looked at them and they seem reasonably similar (ie they both have \citation{citekey} in them. Christiaan asked for examples, so I'll send both to him (offlist). The drop zone is the publications table, but

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Poll: Organising your papers

2008-06-17 Thread Christiaan Hofman
OK, and that one has never worked. You're apparently using some special style, not the default way to write bibliographies. Christiaan On 18 Jun 2008, at 1:33 AM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: > I included an aux file in a post in this thread, one that doesn't > work. > > -Adam > > On Jun 17, 200

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Poll: Organising your papers

2008-06-17 Thread Adam M. Goldstein
I included an aux file in a post in this thread, one that doesn't work. -Adam On Jun 17, 2008, at 6:47 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > Can you send me a sample of one of your .aux file off list? The format > of this files is not documented and apparently varies. I just fixed it > for some kind of

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Poll: Organising your papers

2008-06-17 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Can you send me a sample of one of your .aux file off list? The format of this files is not documented and apparently varies. I just fixed it for some kind of mess that it could contain, but that fix should not affect .aux files for which it used to work. Christiaan On 18 Jun 2008, at 12:28

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Poll: Organising your papers

2008-06-17 Thread Alex Montgomery
This was broken a short while ago, so if it isn't working for you, update to the latest nightly build first. -A On 2008-06-17, at 3:28 PM, James Howison wrote: > Weird. That used to work. I agree though, it doesn't now. Perhaps > it would be best if there was a menu item for it anyway, "Sel

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Poll: Organising your papers

2008-06-17 Thread Adam M. Goldstein
Here's what I see. If I drop an aux file on an open bib window that has the references in the aux file, those are selected. Otherwise, nothing happens when I drop the aux file on the pubs table of an empty open bib. I get an error about the file being unreadable when I drop it onto the BD

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Poll: Organising your papers

2008-06-17 Thread James Howison
Weird. That used to work. I agree though, it doesn't now. Perhaps it would be best if there was a menu item for it anyway, "Select References From .aux File" I think that would help people find it. But first we should check it works, can anyone get the select from aux file to work at the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Poll: Organising your papers

2008-06-17 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 17 Jun 2008, at 11:47 PM, James D. Brenton wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: > > [snip] > >> One folder (with lots of subfolders) for all papers (like iTunes >> does) >> and my custom auto file format string is: %p1/%Y/%T5 %f{Cite >> Key}%u5%e > > Is there any way to re

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Poll: Organising your papers

2008-06-17 Thread Matthieu Masquelet
Wow, I didn't know this one, thanks a lot ! Would be helpful to extract these 10 references for a paper and to create a neat bib file that doesn't contain 1000 entries. But how do you get it to work? Dropping my .aux file does nothing for me... On the first topic, I personally auto-file in a PAPER

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Poll: Organising your papers

2008-06-17 Thread James D. Brenton
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: [snip] > One folder (with lots of subfolders) for all papers (like iTunes does) > and my custom auto file format string is: %p1/%Y/%T5 %f{Cite > Key}%u5%e Is there any way to rename pdfs to the Pubmed ID e.g. 18541649.pdf? James. -- Dr James D. B

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Poll: Organising your papers

2008-06-17 Thread James Howison
On Jun 17, 2008, at 4:52 PM, Andrei Sobolevskii wrote: > Hi Christian, > > On 18 Jun 2008, at 00:34, Christian wrote: > >> Do you used to organise your papers all in one fixed location (one >> folder for all papers) or relative to each document? > > I have one huge monolithic bib file for all my

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Poll: Organising your papers

2008-06-17 Thread Adam M. Goldstein
I have one main bib file, and I store all the papers in a "papers" folder. I used to have BD auto file them in author-last-name folders, but I gave that up, and now I just have BD autofile them in the papers folder with no subfolders. As some point I mean to get them out of the subfolders a

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Poll: Organising your papers

2008-06-17 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 17 Jun 2008, at 10:34 PM, Christian wrote: > Hello, > > from time to time I think about the organisation of my papers with > using the auto file feature of bibdesk. > > Do you used to organise your papers all in one fixed location (one > folder for all papers) or relative to each document? >

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Poll: Organising your papers

2008-06-17 Thread Daniele Pontillo
Maybe I never completely understood what autofile is meant for. Actually all my pdfs are in the paper folder, and I'd like tu create some subfolders for each subject. If I do this now, will I lose my links in the database? Thanks Dan Il giorno 17/giu/08, alle ore 22:46, Niels Kobschaetzki ha s

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Poll: Organising your papers

2008-06-17 Thread Andrei Sobolevskii
Hi Christian, On 18 Jun 2008, at 00:34, Christian wrote: > Do you used to organise your papers all in one fixed location (one > folder for all papers) or relative to each document? I have one huge monolithic bib file for all my stuff (> 4500 entries) in ~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib/ and a ~/Docu

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Poll: Organising your papers

2008-06-17 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > from time to time I think about the organisation of my papers with > using the auto file feature of bibdesk. > > Do you used to organise your papers all in one fixed location (one > folder for all papers) or relativ

[Bibdesk-users] Poll: Organising your papers

2008-06-17 Thread Christian
Hello, from time to time I think about the organisation of my papers with using the auto file feature of bibdesk. Do you used to organise your papers all in one fixed location (one folder for all papers) or relative to each document? By the way, would there be a way to use fixed location wit