Re: [Bibdesk-users] Gremlins in the text, typographically correct (down and up) via babel/german and html-export

2008-02-20 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 20 Feb 2008, at 10:55 AM, Rolf Schmolling wrote: Am 19.02.2008 um 23:43 schrieb Adam R. Maxwell: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alexander H. Montgomery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-02-19, at 2:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it reduce the confusion to just save as UTF-8 by

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Gremlins in the text, typographically correct (down and up) via babel/german and html-export

2008-02-20 Thread Rolf Schmolling
Am 20.02.2008 um 11:09 schrieb Christiaan Hofman: Hello! in addition while testdriving I get the following: Title: {{\glqq}test'' } I did put in “ (smart curly quote up) greetings, Rolf -- Rolf Schmolling M.A. Historian, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rolf_schmolling.macbay.de/

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Gremlins in the text, typographically correct (down and up) via babel/german and html-export

2008-02-20 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 20 Feb 2008, at 1:18 PM, Rolf Schmolling wrote: Am 20.02.2008 um 11:09 schrieb Christiaan Hofman: …You could turn on TeX conversion in the Files prefs, add custom 2- way conversions for {\glqq} and {\grqq}, and use those forms (including the braces). BibDesk will display the quotes,

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Gremlins in the text, typographically correct (down and up) via babel/german and html-export

2008-02-20 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 20 Feb 2008, at 1:20 PM, Rolf Schmolling wrote: Am 20.02.2008 um 11:09 schrieb Christiaan Hofman: Hello! in addition while testdriving I get the following: Title: {{\glqq}test'' } I did put in “ (smart curly quote up) greetings, Rolf You mean in the bibtex file? This is precisely

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Gremlins in the text, typographically correct (down and up) via babel/german and html-export

2008-02-20 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 20 Feb 2008, at 2:28 PM, Rolf Schmolling wrote: Hi Christiaan, Am 20.02.2008 um 13:50 schrieb Christiaan Hofman: On 20 Feb 2008, at 1:20 PM, Rolf Schmolling wrote: Am 20.02.2008 um 11:09 schrieb Christiaan Hofman: Hello! in addition while testdriving I get the following: Title:

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Gremlins in the text, typographically correct (down and up) via babel/german and html-export

2008-02-20 Thread Rolf Schmolling
Hi Christiaan, Am 20.02.2008 um 13:50 schrieb Christiaan Hofman: On 20 Feb 2008, at 1:20 PM, Rolf Schmolling wrote: Am 20.02.2008 um 11:09 schrieb Christiaan Hofman: Hello! in addition while testdriving I get the following: Title: {{\glqq}test'' } I did put in “ (smart curly quote up)

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Gremlins in the text, typographically correct (down and up) via babel/german and html-export

2008-02-20 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rolf Schmolling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this was a very welcome hint. I've been pondering for a while what to do about UTF8 or not and comments and abstracts. That Bibdesk is handling this in the background was something I didn't know and I'm very happy

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Gremlins in the text

2008-02-20 Thread cloy
Thanks to everyone for their responses. I guess the bigger question is where is BibDesk going? Is the intent to make it a research tool for IT developers and programmers, or is it intended to become an application widely used by all scholars/researchers instead of that other commercial product?

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Gremlins in the text

2008-02-20 Thread Alex Hamann
Am 20.02.2008 um 18:22 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks to everyone for their responses. I guess the bigger question is where is BibDesk going? Is the intent to make it a research tool for IT developers and programmers, or is it intended to become an application widely used by all

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Gremlins in the text

2008-02-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
We're certainly not going to automatically delete data, if that's what you're proposing. That's simply not an option. Christiaan On 19 Feb 2008, at 4:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I raised this issue several months ago, but don't think I made myself clear. A problem I've run into is

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Gremlins in the text

2008-02-19 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I raised this issue several months ago, but don't think I made myself clear. A problem I've run into is that if I import a reference with non-plain-text (Unicode?) character (an en-dash, an em-dash, an open or closed quote) in the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Gremlins in the text

2008-02-19 Thread cloy
Christiaan, If you deleted all the data, think how much quicker everything would run! :-) Actually, I was thinking something more along the lines of a setting in the preferences that says, Replace non-printing characters with ~ or something similar to what BBEdit does to clean-up troublesome

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Gremlins in the text

2008-02-19 Thread Alexander H. Montgomery
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,

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Gremlins in the text

2008-02-19 Thread cloy
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, since the odd characters are almost exclusively in

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Gremlins in the text

2008-02-19 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alexander H. Montgomery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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