Re: [Bibdesk-users] Web Groups?

2007-11-06 Thread Christiaan Hofman
It should be in the group pane, the second group, called Web. Christiaan On 6 Nov 2007, at 10:17 AM, Bertolt Meyer wrote: Hi, after having read so much about the new scholar scraping I downloaded the recent nightly. Unfortunately, I am too blind to find the feature. Where do I find the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Web group issues continuing

2007-11-06 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 6 Nov 2007, at 4:58 PM, Adam M.Goldstein wrote: On Nov 5, 2007, at 11:48 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Nov 5, 2007, at 5:52 PM, Adam M.Goldstein wrote: The following search won't bring up new references when I move to the second page of search results in google scholar:

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Dublin Core metadata problems

2007-11-06 Thread Christiaan Hofman
It finds as much data as is available an as we know about. So if it does not fill in much it simply does not find more. It can be that it is data we don't know about, but more probable is that the data is not well formed or is simply not available. Christiaan On 6 Nov 2007, at 6:15 PM,

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Dublin Core metadata problems

2007-11-06 Thread Christiaan Hofman
I'm pretty sure the second link does not contain DC, and I don't get an alert when I load it in the Web Import. Perhaps the target has changed. Christiaan On 6 Nov 2007, at 7:01 PM, jiho wrote: On 2007-November-06 , at 18:33 , Christiaan Hofman wrote: It finds as much data

Re: [Bibdesk-users] z39.50 Support

2007-11-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 11/8/07, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8 Nov 2007, at 7:23 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: Hi Andy, On Nov 7, 2007, at 5:55 PM, Andy Green wrote: So is this something that ADS should/could fix? Admittedly, I know very little about how this works, but it seems from

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.11?

2007-11-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Also no problems from me on Tiger. +1 from me for 1.3.11. Christiaan On 8 Nov 2007, at 12:37 PM, Alex Hamann wrote: Am 08.11.2007 um 07:53 schrieb Simon Spiegel: On 08.11.2007, at 07:27, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: Back to the root of this thread, I uploaded a replacement nightly build for 7

Re: [Bibdesk-users] How to use Web Groups (Google Scholar)?

2007-11-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
I've also seen that. It seems they block you when you're doing too many searches under some conditions. I wonder what those conditions are, so we could correct it. Perhaps they require some kind of HTTP headers, like originating application info? Christiaan On 9 Nov 2007, at 10:52 AM,

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Local URLs

2007-11-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
links to relative or absolute depending on the preference setting. Hendrik On 9-Nov-07, at 11:16 AM, Christiaan Hofman cmhofman-at-gmail.com | Sourceforge| wrote: On 9 Nov 2007, at 7:44 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Friday, November 09, 2007, at 10:33AM, Mark Eli Kalderon [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Local URLs

2007-11-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 9 Nov 2007, at 11:00 PM, Hendrik wrote: On 9-Nov-07, at 12:54 PM, Christiaan Hofman cmhofman-at-gmail.com | Sourceforge| wrote: On 9 Nov 2007, at 9:26 PM, Hendrik wrote: To get all entries changed from absolute to relative paths take these steps: 1) Change the auto-file

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.12?

2007-11-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 14 Nov 2007, at 6:43 PM, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote: A few hiccups: *The web bookmarks only seem to be available when Web is active in the left pane; they should probably be universally available. Just implemented that, the web group will be selected when it isn't already. *With

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.12?

2007-11-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 15 Nov 2007, at 6:40 PM, 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 not

Re: [Bibdesk-users] How to use Web Groups (Google Scholar)?

2007-11-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 16 Nov 2007, at 2:17 PM, Matthias Damm wrote: Am 11.11.2007 um 04:57 schrieb Adam R. Maxwell: This build makes much more sense to me, since the Web group is now functional. It seems perfectly stable to me too. I guess the bookmarks stuff needs more testing, based on Christiaan's

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.12?

2007-11-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 16 Nov 2007, at 4:23 PM, François Briatte wrote: Trivial request: Is the Command-R shortcut in use at the moment? I use Reveal linked file a lot and would feel that it could get a shortcut, Cmmd-R, as in other programs (such as iTunes). The linked file actions will be deprecated soon.

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.12?

2007-11-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 18 Nov 2007, at 7:22 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Nov 18, 2007, at 1:50 AM, Alex Hamann wrote: Are you gonna call for a new vote or is this question still open? Just asking, as this thread has grown in another direction. Indeed...I can't find any votes in this thread, in spite of the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.12?

2007-11-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Are you using today's nightly? Because I should have fixed that yesterday. Christiaan On 18 Nov 2007, at 9:38 PM, Alex Hamann wrote: I'd vote for the release but I still have issues with google scholar web group searches I use the bookmark to go to google.scholar: the settings are set to

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.12?

2007-11-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Just checked scholar.google.de with the latest source, and it now works fine. Note that you can also switch to .com version by choosing the Google Scholar in English link. Christiaan On Nov 18, 2007 9:53 PM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you using today's nightly? Because I

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.12?

2007-11-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
bookmarks; but I don't have those. How do I get to them? -Adam G. On Nov 18, 2007, at 4:20 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: That's how google works, it redirects to your local google. When you change to the English version or explicitly choose .com using the link, it should remember that in your

Re: [Bibdesk-users] safari recent downloads doesn't refresh?

2007-11-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Safari probably does not immediately save the bookmarks to disk. Christiaan On 23 Nov 2007, at 6:03 PM, Derick Fay wrote: When viewing a citation View File Safari Recent Downloads doesn't seem to refresh. I just downloaded a file (from jstor) using Safari, right-click - Download Linked

Re: [Bibdesk-users] no pref for encoding of document opened at startup?

2007-11-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
That's because there is no reliable way to know what the encoding of a file is. Christiaan On 23 Nov 2007, at 5:54 PM, Derick Fay wrote: I changed the encoding from ASCII to UTF-8 on the document that I have set to open at startup in BibDesk. Now whenever I start BibDesk I get the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] safari recent downloads doesn't refresh?

2007-11-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
of the download folder method, since Leopard now has a blessed download folder to be used for all apps. Any major objections? -- adam On Nov 23, 2007, at 11:41 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: Safari probably does not immediately save the bookmarks to disk. Christiaan On 23 Nov 2007, at 6:03

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Protecting titles with double braces

2007-11-27 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Note that simply adding braces around the title is usually not a good idea. Capitalization should be determined by the bibtex style, and this prevents the bibtex style from touching it. I have some scripts on the Wiki that allows you to protect only some known words (like names and

Re: [Bibdesk-users] unsuccessful search

2007-12-02 Thread Christiaan Hofman
There are easier ways to find this word. Just edit a normal field before you search. The problem is that editing in one of the 3 text fields does not update the search index, so you find find it unless you somehow force updating the search index for this item (by editing a normal field or

Re: [Bibdesk-users] CiteInPages 0.95 available

2007-12-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 4 Dec 2007, at 3:28 PM, James Harrison wrote: On Dec 4, 2007, at 5:24 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: With which part do you have trouble, writing the template or installing it in BibdDesk? For the latter both the Help and the Wiki have some step by step instructions. For writing, have you

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Way to un-link crossrefs? (Help!)

2007-12-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 13 Dec 2007, at 9:38 AM, Ingrid Giffin wrote: Is there any way to un-link a child crossref from its parent without losing the inherited information? If I delete the crossref key, all the linked information disappears. no, that's what crossref does. I need to move a group of

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibDesk Special Format Syntax for citation keys possible?

2007-12-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 13 Dec 2007, at 11:16 PM, Jan Michael wrote: Hi BibTex Users, I'd like to have a special format for my citation keys. I tried with custom styles but couldn't manage to get the desired format. Example: Bibliography: M. McCracken, A. Maxwell, J. Howison, M. Routley, S. Spiegel, S.

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Dragged web references?

2007-12-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
, at 01:57PM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm actually not sure if we should do it. The URL could just as well (more often?) be the URL of some paper for an article. It could be, but I think that scenario is less likely when you're dropping a non-file: URL on the main window

Re: [Bibdesk-users] z39.50

2007-12-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
The MARC they send is not valid. The first 24 characters of MARC are determined to some extent by the syntax and we use them to recognize it as MARC. You could perhaps petition the libraries to send valid MARC (though that probbaly won't work). Christiaan On 14 Dec 2007, at 2:04 PM,

Re: [Bibdesk-users] z39.50

2007-12-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
add this supported, considering it's a deprecated format. Christiaan Am 14.12.2007 um 16:18 schrieb Christiaan Hofman: The MARC they send is not valid. The first 24 characters of MARC are determined to some extent by the syntax and we use them to recognize it as MARC. You could perhaps

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Double Initials

2007-12-17 Thread Christiaan Hofman
No, because there is no logical way to distinguish two initials put together and a single first name. I always have believed medical sciences have made a stupid mistake using such weird name formats. Christiaan On 17 Dec 2007, at 3:18 PM, Tobias Witting wrote: Hello, I hope this is not a

Re: [Bibdesk-users] things to fix before 1.3.13?

2007-12-20 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 20 Dec 2007, at 7:54 AM, Simon Spiegel wrote: On 20.12.2007, at 02:24, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: Hi all, I have a developer and user question: are there any showstopper bugs or missing features we need to fix before releasing 1.3.13?I think most of the work is done, but there are

Re: [Bibdesk-users] things to fix before 1.3.13?

2007-12-20 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 20 Dec 2007, at 5:10 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: On 20.12.2007, at 16:39, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: This doesn't seem to be a problem of the file, but of my setup. I get a crash, and the crash reporter says Importer asked to handle unknown UTI edu.ucs.cs. mmccrack.bibdesk.bib whenever I

Re: [Bibdesk-users] things to fix before 1.3.13?

2007-12-20 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 20 Dec 2007, at 6:30 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Thursday, December 20, 2007, at 08:31AM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20 Dec 2007, at 4:58 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Dec 20, 2007, at 5:11 AM, James Harrison wrote: Also, Simon raised the minor issue

Re: [Bibdesk-users] things to fix before 1.3.13?

2007-12-20 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 20 Dec 2007, at 8:41 PM, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote: On 2007-12-20, at 2:20 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: Database Migrate Files, a new assistant to migrate file and URL fields to the new file icon interface. It has some options like removing the original fields. Note

Re: [Bibdesk-users] master-detail idea (was: things to fix before 1.3.13?)

2007-12-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 21 Dec 2007, at 7:18 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Dec 20, 2007, at 12:52 PM, James Harrison wrote: On Dec 20, 2007, at 3:10 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: The current master-detail view is really handy, so it's hard to replace that with the file view; I mainly use the table columns for

Re: [Bibdesk-users] things to fix before 1.3.13?

2007-12-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 20 Dec 2007, at 8:53 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Thursday, December 20, 2007, at 11:42AM, Alexander H. Montgomery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-12-20, at 2:20 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: Database Migrate Files, a new assistant to migrate file and URL fields to the new file

Re: [Bibdesk-users] master-detail idea (was: things to fix before 1.3.13?)

2007-12-22 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 21 Dec 2007, at 10:15 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Friday, December 21, 2007, at 11:59AM, Michael McCracken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 21, 2007 10:47 AM, Alexander H. Montgomery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that the current setup is probably optimal; for those who wish

Re: [Bibdesk-users] master-detail idea (was: things to fix before 1.3.13?)

2007-12-22 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 22 Dec 2007, at 6:26 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Dec 22, 2007, at 5:34 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 21 Dec 2007, at 10:15 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Friday, December 21, 2007, at 11:59AM, Michael McCracken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 21, 2007 10:47 AM, Alexander H

Re: [Bibdesk-users] master-detail idea (was: things to fix before 1.3.13?)

2007-12-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 26 Dec 2007, at 8:31 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Dec 22, 2007, at 11:09 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: I also thought of an alternative. We could make both panes customizable, something like the following choices: Side pane: - Files - Details (template) - Abstract (?) - Notes

Re: [Bibdesk-users] applescript for URL doesn't work

2007-12-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Yes, there was a bug in the URL scripting accessor. Apparently nobody uses it anyway, as it has gone unnoticed for a long time. That's good, as it will is deprecated in the next release. Christiaan On 29 Dec 2007, at 5:44 AM, Derick Fay wrote: I'm trying to add a publication using Tiger

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.13

2007-12-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
This is not an issue, and if it were an issue it'd be a bibtex issue, not a BibDesk's. A proceedings item does not have an author field (in the standard bibtex styles.) Compare the type info in the Advanced Defaults preferences. Christiaan On 29 Dec 2007, at 2:42 PM, Patrick Celka wrote:

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.13

2007-12-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 29 Dec 2007, at 2:58 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: On 28.12.2007, at 00:44, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: I think we've fixed the bugs reported by nightly build testers (thanks!), so I'd like to get a release out soon. Any showstoppers or other things that really need to be resolved? A small

Re: [Bibdesk-users] generating conditional cite keys

2007-12-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 29 Dec 2007, at 5:37 PM, P Kishor wrote: I frequently file books and committee reports (those published by the National Academy Press are a good example) where there is no author but there are editors. Since my BD generates cite_keys as %a1_%Y_u2, the %a part goes unfilled in the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.13

2007-12-30 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 30 Dec 2007, at 9:21 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: On 30.12.2007, at 00:11, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Dec 29, 2007, at 2:52 PM, Ingrid Giffin wrote: Do I understand correctly, that there will no longer be the file icon in the column view? Yes. This would be a major loss of

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.13

2007-12-30 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Dec 30, 2007 9:33 PM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30 Dec 2007, at 9:21 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: On 30.12.2007, at 00:11, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Dec 29, 2007, at 2:52 PM, Ingrid Giffin wrote: Do I understand correctly, that there will no longer be the file

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.13

2007-12-30 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 30 Dec 2007, at 10:44 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: On 30.12.2007, at 21:33, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 30 Dec 2007, at 9:21 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: That shouldn't happen. Does it remain a question mark when you reopen the detail editor, and in the main window? Yes. It also happens

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.13

2007-12-30 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Dec 30, 2007 11:23 PM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30 Dec 2007, at 11:14 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: On 30.12.2007, at 22:59, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 30 Dec 2007, at 10:44 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: On 30.12.2007, at 21:33, Christiaan Hofman wrote

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Author-date bibliography sorting and related issues

2007-12-31 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 31 Dec 2007, at 4:31 PM, James Harrison wrote: On Dec 30, 2007, at 9:59 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Dec 30, 2007, at 9:42 AM, James Harrison wrote: I have an author-date version of CiteInPages (http:// jhh.med.virginia.edu/main/CiteInPages )... I'm looking for a standard

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Author-date bibliography sorting and related issues

2007-12-31 Thread Christiaan Hofman
do my best to handle what's needed for an author-date version of CiteInPages in the script. On Dec 31, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: ... A problem of sorting support in templates is that it is 'static': you have to hard code the possible sortings, there is no way to pass

Re: [Bibdesk-users] File migration dialog

2008-01-02 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Not necessarily. Automatic conversion does not always take place. E.g. if the item was already converted before, any new local file field will not be automatically converted. The file migration dialog still converts those items. Also it may be necessary after an import. Also the file

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Problem using Bibdesk

2008-01-02 Thread Christiaan Hofman
And did you do latex + bibdesk + latex + latex? Christiaan On 2 Jan 2008, at 9:49 PM, Ian Thompson wrote: Thank you for the quick response! I have used LaTeX for a while, but am new to BibTeX and BibDesk. I have been trying to get a BibTeX example to work--here is the .tex file:

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Quick question re publication attributes for Applescript

2008-01-03 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 3 Jan 2008, at 2:51 PM, James Harrison wrote: There are a number of fields for various types of publications, such as editor and publisher, that are not listed as attributes of the publication object in BibDesk's Applescript dictionary. Are values in these fields accessible by

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Adding Sources in BibDesk

2008-01-03 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 3 Jan 2008, at 8:16 PM, Ian Thompson wrote: I had BibDesk working for a little while. Now, all of my old sources work, but whenever I try to add a new source and reference it I get this error in the console: Warning--I didn't find a database entry for kurosawa The database entry

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Adding Sources in BibDesk

2008-01-03 Thread Christiaan Hofman
: Warning--entry type for kurosawa1 isn't style-file defined On Jan 3, 2008 2:49 PM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3 Jan 2008, at 8:16 PM, Ian Thompson wrote: I had BibDesk working for a little while. Now, all of my old sources work, but whenever I try to add a new source and reference

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Local-URL from Yojimbo

2008-01-03 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jan 3, 2008 9:51 PM, Niels Kobschaetzki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 3, 2008 9:48 PM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3 Jan 2008, at 9:11 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Thursday, January 03, 2008, at 12:08PM, Niels Kobschaetzki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

Re: [Bibdesk-users] [OT] How to crossref?

2008-01-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 4 Jan 2008, at 9:41 PM, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote: 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

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Orphaned Files, aliases, and folders

2008-01-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 4 Jan 2008, at 9:08 PM, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote: 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

Re: [Bibdesk-users] [OT] How to crossref?

2008-01-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 4 Jan 2008, at 11:14 PM, Ingrid Giffin wrote: On 1/4/08 1:41 PM, Alexander H. Montgomery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Styled bibliography text into Applescript

2008-01-05 Thread Christiaan Hofman
That's a general AppleScript problem with rich text. AppleScript does not have a primitive rich text type. Rich text is declared as type text, so whenever you evaluated it (e.g. by assigning it to a variable) it is converted to just text. So you can only use it as rich text as a reference.

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Styled bibliography text into Applescript

2008-01-05 Thread Christiaan Hofman
TextEdit does it wrong on Tiger). That bug often gets AppleScript confused (and AppleScript is easily confused). Christiaan On 5 Jan 2008, at 3:08 PM, James Harrison wrote: On Jan 5, 2008, at 6:03 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: That's a general AppleScript problem with rich text. AppleScript does

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Styled bibliography text into Applescript

2008-01-05 Thread Christiaan Hofman
/AppleScriptKit.sdef, so I can see if they've finally fixed that in Leopard. Christiaan On Jan 5, 2008 3:54 PM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're right, AppleScript does not seem to recognize it as rich text. That's strange, as we definitely return rich text and we also declare

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Very minor suggestion re script menu

2008-01-05 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 5 Jan 2008, at 9:08 PM, James Harrison wrote: Moving the script menu choices internal to BibDesk below the user scripts from the Scripts folder is a nice touch in 1.3.13. How about also adding a menu divider between the two sets of menu choices, to help distinguish them? Jim Harrison

Re: [Bibdesk-users] [OT] How to crossref?

2008-01-07 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 7 Jan 2008, at 5:00 PM, Ingrid Giffin wrote: On 1/4/08 4:10 PM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Makes sense. Thanks. But then why does the child item copy both title and booktitle? The title will always need to be replaced by the child's specific title--at least this has

Re: [Bibdesk-users] [OT] How to crossref?

2008-01-07 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jan 7, 2008 6:51 PM, Niels Kobschaetzki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 7, 2008 5:31 PM, Adam R. Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 7, 2008, at 4:57 AM, Jason Davies wrote: Makes sense. Thanks. But then why does the child item copy both title and booktitle? The title

Re: [Bibdesk-users] differentiating multiple files

2008-01-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 8 Jan 2008, at 5:35 AM, 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 refs, 3119 single files, and 304 1 file). For example, I

Re: [Bibdesk-users] differentiating multiple files

2008-01-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 11 Jan 2008, at 6:46 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Friday, January 11, 2008, at 09:29AM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8 Jan 2008, at 5:35 AM, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote: Actually, it's not about *visual* differentiation (which I can do), but differentiation

Re: [Bibdesk-users] download pdf script broken

2008-01-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
I don't know why, but it may be related to the new file layout. This is also reflected in the AppleScript support. E.g. 'local file' and 'remote URL' are now deprecated, and they refer now to the first linked file and URL from the new file layout rather than the Local- Url and Url fields.

Re: [Bibdesk-users] cache index?

2008-01-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 11 Jan 2008, at 7:14 PM, Derick Fay wrote: Is there any possibility in a future version of caching the index of the content of related files so it doesn't need to be recreated each time? df This has been discussed before on this list. a problem is that BibDesk does not have a single

Re: [Bibdesk-users] cache index?

2008-01-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 13 Jan 2008, at 9:25 PM, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: On Jan 13, 2008 9:21 PM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11 Jan 2008, at 7:14 PM, Derick Fay wrote: Is there any possibility in a future version of caching the index of the content of related files so it doesn't need

Re: [Bibdesk-users] cache index?

2008-01-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 13 Jan 2008, at 9:29 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jan 13, 2008, at 12:21 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 11 Jan 2008, at 7:14 PM, Derick Fay wrote: Is there any possibility in a future version of caching the index of the content of related files so it doesn't need to be recreated

Re: [Bibdesk-users] cache index?

2008-01-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 13 Jan 2008, at 9:43 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jan 13, 2008, at 12:35 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 13 Jan 2008, at 9:29 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jan 13, 2008, at 12:21 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 11 Jan 2008, at 7:14 PM, Derick Fay wrote: Is there any possibility

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Autofile problems with 1.3.13

2008-01-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 13 Jan 2008, at 10:57 PM, Holger Frauenrath wrote: On Jan 13, 2008, at 10:43 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jan 13, 2008, at 1:30 PM, Christopher MacMinn wrote: Hey folks - I just installed BibDesk version 1.3.13, and it's giving me a hard time about the local file format I've been

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Autofile problems with 1.3.13

2008-01-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 13 Jan 2008, at 11:17 PM, Christopher MacMinn wrote: I use the cite key as the local file name, so my custom file format string was simply %f{Cite Key}... but now 1.3.13 says that this is invalid because Format for local file requires a unique specifier. I'm fairly certain that cite keys

Re: [Bibdesk-users] this is not important except to the obsessively detail-oriented

2008-01-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 14 Jan 2008, at 4:53 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jan 13, 2008, at 7:19 PM, Derick Fay wrote: If you right-click on a group, whether it's smart or static, the option in the context menu is Remove Smart Group. Changed to Remove Group in the next nightly. We probably changed the title

Re: [Bibdesk-users] duplicate local files after migration / deleting local file entries

2008-01-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 15 Jan 2008, at 11:14 AM, Daniel Becker wrote: hallo list, after moving to the new framework for local files (which I like a lot), I have a lot of duplicate entries for local files and remote urls like this one: Local-Url: ~/My/Path/downloads/CizekHardleWeron2005 Url:

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Specifier for last author in the cite key

2008-01-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Yes, use a negative number for the number of authors to include (as in %a-1). I'm personally glad I'm from a field where people appreciate the person who does the work rather than the one who happens to have prof before his name ;-) Christiaan On 15 Jan 2008, at 4:54 PM, Holger Frauenrath

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Autolinking files

2008-01-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 15 Jan 2008, at 5:55 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Tuesday, January 15, 2008, at 08:34AM, Holger Frauenrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some background: If I am not mistaken the autofile feature is supposed to help you keep order in your linked files by automatically naming them

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Autolinking files

2008-01-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 15 Jan 2008, at 6:13 PM, Holger Frauenrath wrote: Hi Adam, If your files are already in the correct location as a matter of course, you may want to disable part of AutoFile (uncheck File papers automatically). Then you can drag-and-drop the PDF onto the reference from SciFinder, and

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Autolinking files

2008-01-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 16 Jan 2008, at 10:04 AM, Holger Frauenrath wrote: Hi Adam, Christiaan Ewww, automount. Last I worked with that was on Linux, and I had to set up NIS at the same time; I never tried adding non-Linux systems into the mix, though. Are you using NIS as well? (not that it should

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Specifier for last author in the cite key

2008-01-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
You're right, somehow the code for this has magically disappeared. Christiaan On 18 Jan 2008, at 4:47 PM, Holger Frauenrath wrote: Hi Christiaan, somehow your suggestion on how to obtain a cite key with the last author's name does not work for me (I meanwhile also found the syntax in the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] need to release 1.3.14...

2008-01-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Thanks for noting. It will be fixed in the next nightly. Christiaan On 18 Jan 2008, at 7:11 PM, Silke Schneider wrote: Same here: autofiled files end with . Silke Von: Jan Anderssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Antworten an: For general discussion about using BibDesk

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Skim notes and Applescript

2008-01-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 19 Jan 2008, at 4:10 PM, James Harrison wrote: Just a quick query...are Skim notes accessible via Applescript as a field or attribute of publication? They are accessible via templates (which can be used within a script), but I don't see a reference in the AS dictionary specifically to

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Skim notes and Applescript

2008-01-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
on the next line. I could imagine the header line also getting some type of file designator, but that doesn't appear to be implemented yet (unless there's a check for multiple attached files before the designator appears--I didn't test that). Jim On Jan 19, 2008, at 10:27 AM, Christiaan

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Skim notes and Applescript

2008-01-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jan 19, 2008 5:15 PM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In templates they're appended separated by an empty line. We could make them accessible also for the linked file objects, so you could add a collection tag for the local files and combine them as you like. Just realized

Re: [Bibdesk-users] unlinking file

2008-01-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Have you tried delete? Christiaan On 19 Jan 2008, at 4:41 PM, Derick Fay wrote: Would it be possible / is there a way to unlink a file from a publication record? Once a file's been added, dragging it out creates an alias to it. The only option in the context menu is Move to Trash, which

[Bibdesk-users] AppleScript export to clipboard

2008-01-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
To offer an alternative of writing rich templated text, which Apple so kindly broke somewhere along the line, you can now use the 'export' command to write templated (rich) text to the clipboard. Just use 'clipboard' instead of the file argument. it will be available in the next nightly

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Auto file script hooks

2008-01-20 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 20 Jan 2008, at 9:12 AM, Jeremy Van Cleve wrote: In previous versions of BibDesk, I have used the Will Auto File and Did Auto File script hooks to run an applescript that abbreviated the journal name in publication so that Auto File could use the abbreviated name when naming the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] smart group with bibdesk group as criterion?

2008-01-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 21 Jan 2008, at 8:53 PM, Derick Fay wrote: Here was my original problem: I created a static group bowdoin paper I then created a smart group with criteria Match all of the following conditions: Group contains bowdoin Keywords contains to read This should contain a dozen or so

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Keywords and Spotlight Comments

2008-01-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 21 Jan 2008, at 11:22 PM, Sampsa Samila wrote: Is it possible to write an AppleScript / has someone written an AppleScript to take BibDesk keywords and write them as Spotlight comments in the linked files? I'm using BibDesk to manage my references and associated PDFs as well as DEVONthink

Re: [Bibdesk-users] New script hook?

2008-01-22 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Yes, that would be difficult. There are some serious problems with making groups scriptable. Christiaan On 22 Jan 2008, at 4:16 AM, James Harrison wrote: Would it be difficult to add a script hook for moving publications to a static group, where the called script could receive (or have

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Search for entries with no pdfs

2008-01-22 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 22 Jan 2008, at 1:08 PM, Tobias wrote: Hi, in the past I had smart groups searching for the occurrence of pdf in local URL to quickly display the entries which need downloading/ adding of pdfs. How would I have to do this with the new local file handling? Searching for the Field

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.14?

2008-01-22 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 22 Jan 2008, at 7:14 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: Votes on 1.3.14? We need to get a release out soon, if for no other reason than to avoid more duplicate bug reports. File Content searching has had a pretty extensive rewrite, so please test that (all of you who asked for persistent index

Re: [Bibdesk-users] smart group with bibdesk group as criterion?

2008-01-22 Thread Christiaan Hofman
a BD2 test project where we even expanded on the field group idea). Both static and field groups have their own merits. Christiaan On 22/01/2008, at 7:37 AM, James Harrison wrote: On Jan 21, 2008, at 3:07 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: Match all of the following conditions: Group contains

[Bibdesk-users] Missing file extensions after auto file

2008-01-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Some of you may have experienced missing file extensions for linked files that were auto-filed after the last release. we are sorry this happened, and will fix it very soon in a new release, or you can try a recent nightly build where this problem has been fixed. in many cases this may not

[Bibdesk-users] Updated AppleScripts for ArXiv download

2008-01-25 Thread Christiaan Hofman
I have updated my AppleScripts for download of bibliography info from the ArXiv, to be compatible with the latest changes in linked file URL support. The updated scripts can be downloaded through the Wiki. Christiaan -

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Subtle problem with templates

2008-01-25 Thread Christiaan Hofman
All default templates included in BibDesk don't have this problem. The rules are clearly explained on the Wiki and in the Help. Returns right after a collection tag and a condition tag are not exported (either for the open and close tag). So if you place such a tag on a single line (which

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Just 2 questions

2008-01-25 Thread Christiaan Hofman
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 understand what this means, let alone a dumb program. So

Re: [Bibdesk-users] What is this export?

2008-01-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
This is certain;y no RIS (RIS has 2-letter field tags at the beginning of the lines). It doesn't look like anything BibDesk can read. My guess is that they took some kind of RIS and replaced the tags by human readable names. Christiaan On 26 Jan 2008, at 3:02 AM, Adam M.Goldstein wrote:

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Local file and autofile, URL in quicklook

2008-01-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 26 Jan 2008, at 5:06 PM, Jens v. P. wrote: Hi all, I've just updated to version 1.3.14 (and 1.3.13 formerly). The new quicklook is really nice! But now I' m a little bit confused since some things don't work the way they used to. I have activated autofile with the following format

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Local file and autofile, URL in quicklook

2008-01-27 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 27 Jan 2008, at 2:54 PM, Jens v. P. wrote: Christian, Am 26.01.2008 um 17:20 schrieb Christiaan Hofman: Are you sure you're talking about 1.3.14? This was a bug in 1.3.13 that was fixed in the last release. Note that you can rename files in Finder now, and BibDesk will notice

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Problem with open by and using TimeMachine on Leopard 5.1

2008-01-27 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 27 Jan 2008, at 10:33 PM, Rolf Schmolling wrote: Hello! I noticed sth. peculiar: I wanted to check how well any Skim- highlights would show up in Preview (none…) and tried to open the respective attached pdf-file in BibDesk (the new pane) via ctrl.-click and chosing Preview.

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