Re: [Bibdesk-users] Preview template

2008-01-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Perhaps you can also link these on the Wiki? Christiaan On 28 Jan 2008, at 7:14 AM, James Harrison wrote: In case it would be useful to anyone, I've put up an RTF template based on the CiteInPages AMAstyle template file that I use for BibDesk's preview pane. Aside from being a compact

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Question for Autofile in BibDesk 1.3.14

2008-01-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
I wish people would actually read the alerts they get. It clearly says that you need to include a unique specifier, which is one of %u, %U or %n. So the answer is: no, you cannot. I don't know what you did after getting the initial alert, but I strongly advice you to go to the Preferences

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

2008-01-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Please try the next nightly build to se of this problem is solved. We will now remove duplicate apps with the same version number. So old versions in time machine may still show up. Christiaan On 27 Jan 2008, at 10:33 PM, Rolf Schmolling wrote: Hello! I noticed sth. peculiar: I wanted to

Re: [Bibdesk-users] template files preferences

2008-01-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
I'm sure you're using Leopard? And you didn't get used to the new editing behavior of tables yet (like changing Finder names)? Christiaan On 28 Jan 2008, at 10:29 PM, Daniele Pontillo wrote: Hello! I was installing citeinpages, and couldn't get to change the name of a new template with a

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Preview template clarification

2008-01-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
, annotations and Skim notes depending on On Jan 28, 2008, at 5:57 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: And did you use the latest nightlies? Christiaan Wow. I don't know if I can deal with this level of instant gratification. However--to give the gift horse a full dental exam: Have you considered

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Question for Autofile in BibDesk 1.3.14

2008-01-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
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 says that you need to include a unique specifier, which is one of %u, %U or %n. So the answer is: no, you cannot. I

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Best practices for URL fields?

2008-01-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Generally, the Url and Local-Url fields are deprecated. So don't assume it's there if it's not a standard (required or optional) field. We encourage everyone to remove old style URL fields and switch to the new file layout. The URL field is only to be used for inclusion in the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Question for Autofile in BibDesk 1.3.14

2008-01-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 29 Jan 2008, at 12:52 AM, P Kishor wrote: On 1/28/08, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We don't do that because Apple still does not provide a - readUsersMind method (not even in Leopard). well, we don't need readUsersMind. Perhaps we need

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

2008-01-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
With menu. Perhaps we should also override Launch Service's choice of default app if we find a better candidiate. Christiaan Greetings, Rolf Am 29.01.2008 um 14:16 schrieb Christiaan Hofman: Is Skim the default app for PDFs? If so, this is mostly a problem of Apple, because it chooses

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

2008-01-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Greetings, Rolf (MBP 2.3.3 GH 2GB Ram, German OSX 10.5.1) Am 28.01.2008 um 21:37 schrieb Christiaan Hofman: Please try the next nightly build to se of this problem is solved. We will now remove duplicate apps with the same version number. So old versions in time machine may still show up

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Feature request: Rss feeds ..

2008-01-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
You can add a script group with a script that reads RSS feeds. Adam has made a script to read pubmed, which is available at http:// homepage.mac.com/amaxwell/.Public/pubmedtobibtex.zip. The problem with adding a generic RSS feed script is that we don't know what we get, so we don't know how

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Best practices for URL fields?

2008-01-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 29 Jan 2008, at 2:53 AM, James Harrison wrote: On Jan 28, 2008, at 5:38 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: So in templates you should most often use something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of $urls.Local-Url.path, samilar for the URL. Also $fields.URL, and $URL

Re: [Bibdesk-users] pdf metadata

2008-01-30 Thread Christiaan Hofman
And the same old answer, no progress. Christiaan On 30 Jan 2008, at 11:36 PM, Daniele Pontillo wrote: Hi! It's the same ol' story. Where are we at with pdf metadata, in order to drag a pdf file on bibdesk and get the complete reference? Thanks Daniele Pontillo Chief, Echo Lab,

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Appropriate usage of InfoKey?

2008-01-31 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Basically, yes. It's just used to add some custom information to any document that can be used in templates and formats. It was originally introduced for support in formats. BibDesk makes no assumptions and does not set it itself. Christiaan On 31 Jan 2008, at 3:59 PM, James Harrison

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Pb with linked files?

2008-02-01 Thread Christiaan Hofman
want so I won't bother either for now. Thanks! Also if you use it one-way (BibDesk-LyX) you could export as minimal bibtex (which drops bibdesk's special fields). Christiaan Le 1 févr. 08 à 13:08, Christiaan Hofman a écrit : First of all, this sounds more like a problem of LyX than

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Can I autofile my pdf-library

2008-02-03 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Two things you could try is AppleScript and Match Files. the question is also if you want to automate this for the future or for a one-time linking of files. In the former case you could try a script hook. Christiaan On 2 Feb 2008, at 3:52 PM, Sama Agahi wrote: Dear list members, I am

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Can I autofile my pdf-library

2008-02-03 Thread Christiaan Hofman
write one yourself. Christiaan On 3 Feb 2008, at 7:20 PM, Sama Agahi wrote: Thanks! I was primarily thinking of doing this as a one time thing. So I guess I need an applescript. Is there any particular one that you can recommend. Best wishes, Sama 3 feb 2008 kl. 18.04 skrev Christiaan

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Download nightly script

2008-02-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
There is also a Download Yesterdays Nightly script on the Wiki. The only difference is to substract 86400 from (get current date). Christiaan On 4 Feb 2008, at 11:29 PM, Adam M.Goldstein wrote: I am using the Download-todays-nightly script (or trying to, at least) and it doesn't quite work.

Re: [Bibdesk-users] importing citations

2008-02-05 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 5 Feb 2008, at 9:12 AM, James Owen wrote: On Feb 4, 2008, at 4:45 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: Aren't there more important things to complain about? No, the program is just too d*** good! :-) ++ Just some little queries. I have been trying to consolidate all my bib files into

Re: [Bibdesk-users] importing citations

2008-02-05 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 5 Feb 2008, at 11:46 AM, James Owen wrote: [snip] Secondly, when importing citations from PRL, they have their own citekey format. Is there any way to tell BibDesk to impose the auto citekey format on imported citations? Likewise, some way to tell BibDesk to consolidate all linked

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Centering the pdf

2008-02-05 Thread Christiaan Hofman
No, that's not possible. The scroll view reacts automatically on size changes. It would be far to complex and very messy to mess with that. Christiaan On 6 Feb 2008, at 12:12 AM, Adam M.Goldstein wrote: I think that Mike M. made this comment earlier, but I'd like to bring it up again. When

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Autofiling

2008-02-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Read the alert you get and don't complain. Unique for a cite key is not unique for a file. Sigh. Christiaan On 8 Feb 2008, at 8:41 PM, Jan Erik Moström wrote: I just downloaded and launched 1.3.14, and it complained that my naming for autofiling wouldn't generate a unique name. I've been

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Autofiling

2008-02-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 8 Feb 2008, at 10:28 PM, Jan Erik Moström wrote: I tried finding an answer to this in the archive and the manual but I couldn't find anything definitive, sorry if I missed something. I've been using the local-file url to hold a reference to the PDF to the paper. This has worked well and

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Autofiling

2008-02-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 8 Feb 2008, at 11:04 PM, Jan Erik Moström wrote: Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08-02-08 22.51 If I understand this correctly, the local-url and url usage will not be supported in the future and if I want to keep the old format then I have to manage this manually. The reason I

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Autofiling

2008-02-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 8 Feb 2008, at 11:58 PM, Jan Erik Moström wrote: Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08-02-08 23.39 I don't see the problem, as they can simply ignore what they see, or get used to it. Perhaps I've misunderstood something, so please let me make sure that I've understood everything

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibTeX style file name year-year-year

2008-02-10 Thread Christiaan Hofman
That's a template. It seems that what you're asking is for a bibtex style file (.bst). This question is more appropriate for a bibtex list. BibDesk is concerned only with the bibliography management. Christiaan On 10 Feb 2008, at 5:59 PM, Ingrid Giffin wrote: This one has similarities to

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Custom URL field not web-usable?

2008-02-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
This has been discussed on this list many times now: this functionality has moved to the side pane. Christiaan On 13 Feb 2008, at 2:20 AM, Ingrid Giffin wrote: Hello, I have a custom URL field called My-Proxy-URL that's set to be a Remote URL field in preferences. In the previous

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Custom URL field not web-usable?

2008-02-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 2/13/08 11:41 AM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I mean is that the *functionality* of linking remote URLs is now supported in the side pane, together with the linked local files. If you declared this field as a remote URL field it should have been moved

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Custom URL field not web-usable?

2008-02-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
. Christiaan On 13 Feb 2008, at 7:23 PM, Ingrid Giffin wrote: Well, if My-Proxy-URL does not show up in the side panel, in what sense has the functionality been moved? On 2/13/08 3:46 AM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has been discussed on this list many times now

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Custom URL field not web-usable?

2008-02-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
In the next nightly you can also use database find replace directly for linked URLs, choose the Remote URL field from the combobox. Christiaan On 13 Feb 2008, at 9:17 PM, Ingrid Giffin wrote: Aah! That’s what I needed. Thank you. On 2/13/08 1:11 PM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL

Re: [Bibdesk-users] smart group / Applescript enhancements

2008-02-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 16 Feb 2008, at 11:47 PM, Derick Fay wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Nicholas Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You know you can add smart groups for that? Christiaan That had occurred to me

Re: [Bibdesk-users] smart group / Applescript enhancements

2008-02-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Feb 17, 2008 12:17 AM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16 Feb 2008, at 11:47 PM, Derick Fay wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Nicholas Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You know you can add

Re: [Bibdesk-users] file view ideas

2008-02-17 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 16 Feb 2008, at 8:21 PM, Alexander H. Montgomery 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: On 2008-02-15, at 1:53 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: I've been playing with some changes

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, 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] smart group / Applescript enhancements

2008-02-20 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 17 Feb 2008, at 9:07 PM, Derick Fay wrote: In the latest nightlies most of the groups is scriptable. The one thing that is not scriptable is configuring smart groups. The reason is that the complexity and validation of the smart group configuration sheet is hard, if not impossible, to

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] BibDesk direction (was: Re: Gremlins in the text)

2008-02-20 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 20 Feb 2008, at 7:56 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Niels Kobschaetzki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 20, 2008 6:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to everyone for their responses. I guess the bigger question is where is BibDesk going? Is the intent

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Probably a bad BibTeX crasher

2008-02-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Also look at ~/Library/Logs CrashReporter BibDesk.crash.log. Christiaan On 21 Feb 2008, at 2:07 PM, Holger Frauenrath wrote: On Feb 21, 2008, at 1:55 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: I guess you mean BibDesk? Is there any crash log for BibDesk in Console.app? Ooops. Sure. BibDesk. Sorry

Re: [Bibdesk-users] applescript w groups

2008-02-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 23 Feb 2008, at 6:58 AM, Derick Fay wrote: Hi I've worked up an Applescript to produce a calendar view as was requested a week or so ago, but I'm running into one problem: I can't actually add selected publications to a group. Here's the approach I'm using: tell application BibDesk

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Z39.50 importing for titles and sub-titles

2008-02-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 23 Feb 2008, at 3:22 PM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: If anybody wants to tinker with the Z39.50 importer, here is some advice. The 245 field has sub-fields a and b; a is the title, b is the subtitle. These are reliably separated by: _:_ where _ is a space. Indeed, if you look at records

Re: [Bibdesk-users] latest nightly won't start with OS 10.4

2008-02-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Thanks. We just switched the project to link against Leopard, but with Tiger compatibility. This kind of incompatibilities are always hard to catch without explicit testing. Please try the next nightly and see if it is fixed. Hopefully there won't be similar problems at other places.

Re: [Bibdesk-users] local-url

2008-02-27 Thread Christiaan Hofman
That explains it. This is raw AppleScript text, and a .scpt file is supposed to be compiled AppleScript. You should paste it into Script Editor and save it as a .scpt file instead. Christiaan On 27 Feb 2008, at 7:28 PM, chael wrote: Yes, I'm using auto-file. I now tried to hook it to Add

Re: [Bibdesk-users] link to skim bookmarks?

2008-03-01 Thread Christiaan Hofman
No, the bookmarks are not accessible through any other means but the menu. Christiaan On 1 Mar 2008, at 6:47 PM, Derick Fay wrote: I guess this is a (minor) feature requestI can't figure out a way to do itI have a pdf of an entire book have separate BibDesk entries for several

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Cite keys and autofiling

2008-03-01 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 1 Mar 2008, at 11:19 PM, Jan Erik Moström wrote: I need to figure out if I should change all my cite keys or if I can fix this in some way - I might be doing this in some really stupid way. I've set up BibDesk to generate cite keys in the format authorname:1988a (that is '%a1:%Y%u1').

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Sample script gives error in latest nightly (v1048)

2008-03-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Looks like an Apple bug in AppleScript, as 'duplicate' is a build-in command. Christiaan On 4 Mar 2008, at 8:43 PM, Derick Fay wrote: Hi I haven't been able to work further on the calendar view script but I just downloaded the latest nightly (v1048) tried to run the sample script - it

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Script to rename references when renaming citation labels?

2008-03-05 Thread Christiaan Hofman
; ideally I just tell BibDesk about a list of folders or files that use this bibliography. Ulli Am 05.03.2008 um 12:57 schrieb Christiaan Hofman: On 5 Mar 2008, at 12:32 PM, Ulrich Kortenkamp wrote: Hi, has anyone written a script that makes it possible to automatically change \cite

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Crashes involving the document viewing pane

2008-03-05 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 5 Mar 2008, at 9:00 PM, Ingrid Giffin wrote: On 3/5/08 12:49 PM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5 Mar 2008, at 6:52 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Mar 5, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Ingrid Giffin wrote: I frequently crash BibDesk by doing things to the document viewer pane

Re: [Bibdesk-users] journal names causing newblock fail

2008-03-06 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 6 Mar 2008, at 4:04 PM, Richard Barry wrote: Hello and thanks in advance for any help you can give me. I am running bibdesk with texshop on a intel-based macbook pro running Leopard. I have version Version 1.3.14 (v1008) of bibdesk. Problem I am having is that whenever I directly use

Re: [Bibdesk-users] journal names causing newblock fail

2008-03-06 Thread Christiaan Hofman
need to use a latex style file for those references, I guess their website should tell you somewhere which one. Note that this is not related to bibdesk, it's a pure latex issue. Christiaan On Mar 6, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 6 Mar 2008, at 4:04 PM, Richard Barry wrote

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Some linked URLs loading incorrectly

2008-03-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
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, it is changed so that the link is broken. Example: There is a URL in the linked documents pane. It is:

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Recent nightly builds

2008-03-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
There have been some significant changes to the previews (indeed, non- singular). The changes should be obvious. Also the internals of the file icon views have changed quite a bit. Keep an eye on performance and possible bugs there, and the build-in downloading functionality. Christiaan On

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Some linked URLs loading incorrectly

2008-03-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 9 Mar 2008, at 9:31 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

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Some linked URLs loading incorrectly

2008-03-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 9 Mar 2008, at 9:44 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

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Some linked URLs loading incorrectly

2008-03-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 9 Mar 2008, at 9:53 PM, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote: 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

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Premature end of base64 string

2008-03-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 9 Mar 2008, at 11:35 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote: Hi, all, I am getting this in the system log: Mar 9 15:06:17 zippo BibDesk[15674]: *** -[NSAutoreleasePool dealloc]: Exception ignored while releasing an object in an autorelease pool. exception: 'Premature end of Base64 string'

Re: [Bibdesk-users] skim notes

2008-03-10 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 10 Mar 2008, at 2:52 AM, Derick Fay wrote: Is there any way to get Skim notes to sort by page 1) in a display or export template This is completely determined by the text export templates in Skim, BibDesk just quotes the result from there and does not do any interpret anything. 2)

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Linking files with and without renaming

2008-03-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 12 Mar 2008, at 4:00 PM, James Harrison wrote: On Mar 12, 2008, at 10:10 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: In BibDesk 1.3.14, when file renaming/autofiling is being used, it sometimes may be desirable to link files to references without renaming them, particularly when multiple files

Re: [Bibdesk-users] autofile format

2008-03-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Bibtex-Type is a bibtex *field* with that name (which usually is not set). In BibDesk, special 'fields' that do not correspond to actual bibtex fields (such as special columns and also in the format) always contain spaces, so they cannot be confused with actual field names, which can't

Re: [Bibdesk-users] autofile format

2008-03-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Sorry, my bad. We should treat that one separately when validating. Try the next nightly. Christiaan On 13 Mar 2008, at 5:12 PM, Matthieu Dubois wrote: Dear Christiaan, thank you for your answer. I'm felling quite stupid, but when entering your suggestion (either by copy-paste or by

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Always open in Skim

2008-03-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
I've no idea. Perhaps it's a problem with your Launch Services database. Why don't you use Skim as your system default? Christiaan On 13 Mar 2008, at 5:19 PM, Andreas Næsby Rasmussen wrote: Hi folks, First of all I have to say I love the integratin of Bibdesk and Skim as a whole. I am so

Re: [Bibdesk-users] multiple linked web pages question

2008-03-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 15 Mar 2008, at 9:44 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Mar 15, 2008, at 1:35 PM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: The following bibtex record presents two copies of the URL in the viewing pane (right side) of my BibDesk window. Why? There is also one copy of a linked PDF. Many records in my

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Feature-Request regarding auto-filing and auto-generation of cite-keys

2008-03-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 18 Mar 2008, at 11:14 AM, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18 Mar 2008, at 8:49 AM, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Peter Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your specific case can

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Feature-Request regarding auto-filing and auto-generation of cite-keys

2008-03-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 18 Mar 2008, at 8:49 AM, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Peter Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your specific case can partially be achieved with %P, see [^1]. As far as I know there is no if/then operator (and I think no plans to add one). [1]

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Feature-Request regarding auto-filing and auto-generation of cite-keys

2008-03-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 18 Mar 2008, at 11:32 AM, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18 Mar 2008, at 11:14 AM, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18 Mar 2008, at 8

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Feature-Request regarding auto-filing and auto-generation of cite-keys

2008-03-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 18 Mar 2008, at 11:32 AM, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18 Mar 2008, at 11:14 AM, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18 Mar 2008, at 8

Re: [Bibdesk-users] exporting data from BibDesk

2008-03-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 18 Mar 2008, at 3:26 PM, P Kishor wrote: Hi folks, I have never had good experience importing data into another program that I have exported from BibDesk. I love BibDesk for many of its capabilities and flexibility, but it just doesn't fit my workflow for now. This, of course, is my

Re: [Bibdesk-users] exporting data from BibDesk

2008-03-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 18 Mar 2008, at 5:06 PM, P Kishor wrote: On 3/18/08, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18 Mar 2008, at 3:26 PM, P Kishor wrote: Hi folks, I have never had good experience importing data into another program that I have exported from BibDesk. I love BibDesk for many of its

Re: [Bibdesk-users] array out of bounds

2008-03-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
That's not good. If anyone can give steps to reproduce this, that would be helpful. Christiaan On 20 Mar 2008, at 1:07 AM, Ingrid Giffin wrote: I get that same message often. On 3/19/08 5:31 PM, Derick Fay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just deleting about 10 file attachments from a

Re: [Bibdesk-users] array error message

2008-03-20 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Thanks. So apparently it's trying to show page arrows for the icon you just removed. I can't see a problem with this in the code ATM, that should never happen. I also cannot reproduce it. S we'll have to look further. Christiaan On 20 Mar 2008, at 6:46 PM, Derick Fay wrote: I couldn't

Re: [Bibdesk-users] possible to set a linked file for a publication with applescript?

2008-03-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
linked files are a to-many property, not a to-one-property. You cannot simply use set to add an item to a to-many property. You need to use the add command. If the add command is not available (I'm not sure if it is supported in the last release) you should use the make command with a with

Re: [Bibdesk-users] possible to set a linked file for a publication with applescript?

2008-03-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
direct user interaction. Triggering automatic actions from AppleScript is dangerous, because it could lead to infinite loops. You can auto-file using the auto file command. Christiaan 2008/3/23, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: linked files are a to-many property, not a to-one-property

Re: [Bibdesk-users] applescripts to the list?

2008-03-24 Thread Christiaan Hofman
in the document(s). It then displays the matches it finds. YMMV. Christiaan Miguel 2008/3/24, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The best place to link scripts is on the Wiki, because that will stay around. What you describe thugh sounds very much like the build in File Matcher. Christiaan

Re: [Bibdesk-users] How to add bibliographic information from google scholar to a publication

2008-03-24 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 24 Mar 2008, at 12:29 PM, Sergio MORA wrote: Hello, I'm trying to find a way to use Google Scholar to automatically add bibliographic information to an article (PDF). By far, I drag the PDF to Bibdesk, it creates a new publication with empty fields. What I'm trying to do is to search

Re: [Bibdesk-users] How to add bibliographic information from google scholar to a publication

2008-03-24 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 24 Mar 2008, at 7:16 PM, James Howison wrote: On Mar 24, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: On Mar 24, 2008, at 1:29 PM, Daniele Pontillo wrote: Hmm, and what about all the scientific publishers? In my case, there are thousands of medical journals that could benefit from this

Re: [Bibdesk-users] How to add bibliographic information from google scholar to a publication

2008-03-25 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 25 Mar 2008, at 9:38 PM, Mark Eli Kalderon wrote: On Mar 24, 2008, at 6:29 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: After I babbled about this for ages, without actually taking action [1], I got a few calls from publishers interested in doing it, including Nature. The stumbling blocks at the time

Re: [Bibdesk-users] applescripts to the list?

2008-03-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
... Cheers, Miguel 2008/3/24, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 24 Mar 2008, at 11:20 AM, Miguel Ortiz-Lombardía wrote: Hmm, that's what I thought. Except that I have never managed to convince the File Matcher to do what I want... It indexes the files for ages and never finds anything

Re: [Bibdesk-users] duplicate cite key question

2008-03-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Nothing has changed, and it WFM. Christiaan On 26 Mar 2008, at 8:27 PM, Jan Anderssen wrote: Hello - From what I remember (and I might be wrong here), BibDesk used to warn me when attempting to use an already taken cite key for a new publication. Now it doesn't do that any more (Version

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Non-Human Author / Editor

2008-03-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 26 Mar 2008, at 11:28 PM, Jens Sambale wrote: Hello List, this must be a common problem but I don't seem to be able to solve it. I use Bibdesk with Lyx and Jurabib, works nicely, no complains until now, when I tried to add institutional authors/editors like California Commission on

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Stuck with item separators

2008-03-27 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 27 Mar 2008, at 12:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I'm working on a customized export filter right now and would like the authors to be separated by tabs in the export-file. Is there an overview of the syntax for all possible separators? I was not able to find anything on the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Expanding crossreferences

2008-03-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
There is no build in way to do this. You can use a template to copy or export expanded bibtex though. Templates for this are available from the WIki. Christiaan On 28 Mar 2008, at 9:59 AM, Jan Erik Moström wrote: Another thing that I haven't figured out is how to expand cross-

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Expanding crossreferences

2008-03-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Jan Erik Moström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08-03-28 10.59 There is no build in way to do this. You can use a template to copy or export expanded bibtex though. Templates for this are available from the WIki. Thanks. I

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Page numbers and Skim notes

2008-03-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 29 Mar 2008, at 3:35 PM, Jim Delaney wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if there is any way for BibDesk to reformat Skim notes to insert proper page numbers. i.e. rather than number pages 1,2,3,4 when displaying notes and highlights, to reformat these based on the first page number of the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Skim notes in export templates

2008-03-30 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Can't reproduce this with the latest source (which is equivalent with todays nightly). Christiaan On 30 Mar 2008, at 10:30 AM, Simon Spiegel wrote: Hi everybody, no idea what I'm doing wrong but I can't make skim notes appear in my export templates. I used the following snippet but

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Some Formatting Requirements for an existing Filemaker DB

2008-03-30 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 30 Mar 2008, at 3:12 PM, James Harrison wrote: On Mar 30, 2008, at 7:54 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: There's a hook called after an import now. Change Field is never called for an import, it's only called when manually editing a field. I don't see a hook name in the preferences that's

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Some Formatting Requirements for an existing Filemaker DB

2008-03-31 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 31 Mar 2008, at 6:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just got this message from Stewart: This is a script that will remove the last period of theChunk: -- set theChunk to trailing full stop. if the last character of theChunk is . then set theLength to the length of theChunk set

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Alphabetizing with Multiple Authors

2008-03-31 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 31 Mar 2008, at 8:59 PM, Ian Thompson wrote: Hello, I am using BibDesk and LaTeX and everything is working fine except my References page is not alphabetized by last name. When I have multiple authors for a single paper, how do I input their names into the author field in Bibdesk?

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Template editor broken?

2008-04-01 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Yes, this is a bug in the template editor. The nightly build will have this fixed. Christiaan On 1 Apr 2008, at 12:32 PM, Cloy Tobola wrote: The template editor will allow me to create a template, but when I try to open it again, I get: Unable to open file. This template cannot be opened

Re: [Bibdesk-users] RFC: Auto-saving groups to files

2008-04-01 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 2 Apr 2008, at 2:01 AM, Michael McCracken wrote: Hi again folks. I've been writing again recently, and I re-encountered a problem I've had with keeping sub-files up to date. Here's the story: I need to share tex and bib source files with other people. I don't want to share my full

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Template format?

2008-04-02 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 2 Apr 2008, at 6:06 PM, Cloy Tobola wrote: I'm working on an APA style template, and I am running into a problem. When listing authors, APA uses a serial comma when there are only two authors. The current template editor options list A, B, C but when I use that format with only two

Re: [Bibdesk-users] RFC: Auto-saving groups to files

2008-04-02 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 2 Apr 2008, at 4:29 AM, Michael McCracken wrote: On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2 Apr 2008, at 2:01 AM, Michael McCracken wrote: Hi again folks. I've been writing again recently, and I re- encountered a problem I've had with keeping

Re: [Bibdesk-users] New release, View X in Drawer grayed-out menu commands

2008-04-02 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 2 Apr 2008, at 7:32 PM, Alex Montgomery wrote: I've been using the latest nightlies; the new selectors for which template to use are great. Will there be an official release soon? That begs the question: who's doing the release? Should we start testing certain new features? On that

Re: [Bibdesk-users] (no subject)

2008-04-03 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 3 Apr 2008, at 8:55 PM, Ingrid Giffin wrote: Apologies if this has been covered before, but I couldn't find anything in the archives. Yes, many times. I sometimes have records that are Books with an editor listed but no author, but which have a pdf attached for various reasons

Re: [Bibdesk-users] DBLP integration

2008-04-03 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 3 Apr 2008, at 11:05 PM, Alexandre Papadopoulos wrote: I did a search for shafi and came up with this result you linked to. Double-clicking it showed crossref buttons in the editor, and clicking one of those opened the crossref. If you can find a case where the @inproceedings and

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Copying Bibdesk local file to pdf for jabref integration

2008-04-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 4 Apr 2008, at 8:43 PM, Robin wrote: Hi, I am trying to set up my main bib file (which is kept in svn and sync'd across different machines) so that it is usable cross-platform... At the moment I have all files as bibdesk local files and I would like an automatic way to extract these

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Static group as criterion for smart group

2008-04-05 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 5 Apr 2008, at 6:14 AM, Ingrid Giffin wrote: Hello, I would like to use membership in a particular static group as one criterion for membership in a smart group. For instance, I would like to create a smart group that contains all references that are members of static group X and are

Re: [Bibdesk-users] DOI, url, and import = new feature?

2008-04-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 11 Apr 2008, at 1:49 PM, Tobias wrote: On 11 Apr 2008, at 11:46, Etienne B. Roesch wrote: Hi, This morning I realized I could copy the doi address from a bib item, paste it in the web search group, and thus access the page where I can download the pdf of the article I am interested

Re: [Bibdesk-users] DOI, url, and import = new feature?

2008-04-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
I don't use DOIs, so I don't know if this is feasible. But AFAIK, there is no systematic way to find the PDF URL from the DOI number, or is there? AFAIK you can only find a page containing information associated to the DOI item. Also note that if you add/paste the remote URL in the files

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