Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibDesk - Word

2008-12-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 19 Dec 2008, at 1:54 PM, James Harrison wrote: On Dec 19, 2008, at 5:44 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 Dec 2008, at 8:51 PM, Conan C. Albrecht wrote: The only problem is we need to get appscript

Re: [Bibdesk-users] linking skim file to reference

2008-12-20 Thread Christiaan Hofman
What are you trying to achieve? Why would you want to link a .skim file to an item in bibdesk? Christiaan On 20 Dec 2008, at 7:35 PM, Daniel Loranz wrote: Currently my workflow looks like ... 1 - Use Skim to write up notes in a paper. 2 - Command-click the menu-bar file icon to reveal the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Advice

2008-12-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Apart from that, you cannot combine two templates into a single files. There is absolutely no guarantee that a template spans only a single line, even for citations. Compare the samples I wrote in an earlier mail. Christiaan On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Advice

2008-12-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
I really don't see why you even need two styles. Why not just let the user choose a single style and use that throughout? If you say because there's \cite and \citet, I don't see that as any reason (why is 2 better than 1, or 3 or 4 or 5 for that matter? The only non- confusing choice to me

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Advice

2008-12-22 Thread Christiaan Hofman
. Thanks for the discussion. Conan C. Albrecht, Ph.D. Information Systems Department Brigham Young University Email: co...@warp.byu.edu Phone: +1-801-805-1615 Web/Blog: http://warp.byu.edu/ On Dec 21, 2008, at 17:31, Christiaan Hofman wrote: I really don't

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Advice

2008-12-22 Thread Christiaan Hofman
...@warp.byu.edu Phone: +1-801-805-1615 Web/Blog: http://warp.byu.edu/ On Dec 21, 2008, at 17:35, Christiaan Hofman wrote: Apart from that, you cannot combine two templates into a single files. There is absolutely no guarantee that a template spans only a single line, even for citations. Compare

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Advice

2008-12-22 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 22 Dec 2008, at 12:15 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: There may be some use to multiple commands, I am not saying there isn't. But is it really worth the added complexity leading to more confusion and annoyance of through the need to provide separate templates for all of them? I certainly

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Advice

2008-12-22 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 22 Dec 2008, at 2:50 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: As for the OSX guidelines: The problem is that this is a highly complex matter. It's not a coincidence that almost no system exists which can handle more advanced citation styles. The fact that it's already complex is really a case ion

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Different skim question--printing the notes (OT?)

2008-12-22 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 22 Dec 2008, at 6:48 PM, Robert Sloan wrote: Once in a while I want to really study a paper that I have notes on in skim, and then I do want to print out the paper--and then I want to print out all my notes too. You should do that from Skim. If you want to print out the notes separately

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibDesk - Word

2008-12-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Some remarks on the latest version of BibDeskToWord: 1. It does not currently support numbered citations. If you want to support that, you either have to create the citations yourself as you did before, or require one of the latest nightlies and add an in parameter to the templated_text or

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibDesk - Word

2008-12-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 26 Dec 2008, at 8:09 PM, Conan C. Albrecht wrote: Thanks for the report. I think the app is doing what you say below: 1. It does not currently support numbered citations. If you want to support that, you either have to create the citations yourself as you did before, or require one of

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibDesk - Word

2008-12-27 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 26 Dec 2008, at 7:53 PM, James Harrison wrote: On Dec 26, 2008, at 1:13 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: 1. It does not currently support numbered citations. If you want to support that, you either have to create the citations yourself as you did before, or require one of the latest

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibDesk - Word

2008-12-27 Thread Christiaan Hofman
continue to generate the numbered in-text citations myself, the current templating improvements will be hugely helpful in managing author-date citations. Jim Harrison Univ. of Virginia On Dec 27, 2008, at 1:05 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 26 Dec 2008, at 7:53 PM, James Harrison wrote

Re: [Bibdesk-users] abbreviations in titles

2008-12-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
They.re called macros in bibtex, and in BibDesk they can be added through the Macros window (Database Macros). Christiaan On 29 Dec 2008, at 8:54 PM, M. Tamer Özsu wrote: I am importing an existing bibtex file into bibdesk. In the bibtex file, for conference titles, journal titles and the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Year field after PubMed Import contains more than Year

2009-01-03 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 4 Jan 2009, at 12:06 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jan 3, 2009, at 11:42 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 3 Jan 2009, at 7:01 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: FWIW, I'd suggest that Greg's patch or the original code should probably be used for PubMed, since this sounds like pretty serious

Re: [Bibdesk-users] APA Citation - error in template

2009-01-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 4 Jan 2009, at 10:55 PM, Cloy Tobola wrote: Here's a correction for the APA style full citations template (APACitationTemplate.txt) on the Wiki... In APA Style, the names of the editors (for inbook references) should be listed as In A. B. Smith... (not Smith, A. B.) (See p. 252, #34

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Parsing ISI Cited References

2009-01-07 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 7 Jan 2009, at 5:31 AM, Chris Borst wrote: Thanks for your help Adam. Yes, that worked, by and large. My apologies for not finding it in going through the Help docs. Absolutely, the issue is multivalued fields. The by and large reflects two continuing, but entirely workable,

Re: [Bibdesk-users] [Bibdesk-develop] Unit Tests

2009-01-07 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 7 Jan 2009, at 11:29 PM, Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote: Hi Christian, Thanks. I chose JT because its description seemed closer to bibtex's Journal field, that is, it's description suggests it includes /only/ the full title name (rather than the weird values you quote). If TA generally

Re: [Bibdesk-users] [Bibdesk-develop] Unit Tests

2009-01-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 8 Jan 2009, at 2:21 AM, Gregory Jefferis wrote: Hi Christiaan, Many thanks for fixes and feedback. On 2009-01-07 21:47, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks. I chose JT because its description seemed closer to bibtex's Journal field, that is, it's description suggests

Re: [Bibdesk-users] [Bibdesk-develop] Unit Tests

2009-01-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 8 Jan 2009, at 1:36 PM, Gregory Jefferis wrote: On 2009-01-08 10:46, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: As I said above, I moved it unmodified to the bibTeX Date field, so it is retained. Ah, beg your pardon, yes, I see what you mean. I got confused because BibDesk has

Re: [Bibdesk-users] New wiki organization

2009-01-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Congratulations, you can now edit the new Wiki! I had already added a link to your web page in the Other Applications section. Christiaan On 9 Jan 2009, at 7:32 PM, Conan C. Albrecht wrote: Hi Mike -- I maintain the BibDesk To Word app and would like to put it on the Wiki. I've now

Re: [Bibdesk-users] bug with New Publications from Clipboard... ?

2009-01-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 12 Jan 2009, at 6:01 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jan 11, 2009, at 7:26 PM, Derick Fay wrote: I have the following EndNote formatted citation on my clipboard: TY - JOUR [...] ER - This looks like RIS, but it's not...since in RIS each tag should be followed by two spaces, and

Re: [Bibdesk-users] google scholar from within BibDesk

2009-01-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
What's happening if you use German? It does work just as well for me. BibDesk should recognize any http://scholar.google.* URLs, and further only looks for links containing BibTeX in their title. And that should work for any language. Note that you must make sure that google scholar

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Macro expansion for month field broken if region language != english

2009-01-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 12 Jan 2009, at 7:58 PM, Christian Plessl wrote: Hi Christiaan Is this intended behavior? A possible workaround might be to re- define each month with a macro @{jan = January}, but this seems too hackish for me. Best regards, Christian Yes, BibDesk uses the month names from the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Macro expansion for month field broken if region language != english

2009-01-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 13 Jan 2009, at 9:35 AM, Christian Plessl wrote: On 12.01.2009, at 22:57, Christiaan Hofman wrote: My tests showed that this doesn't work as I would like. I think most BibTeX styles expect that the months are written with three letter abbreviations, jan, feb, ... If I define a @String

Re: [Bibdesk-users] google scholar

2009-01-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 14 Jan 2009, at 12:41 AM, James Harrison wrote: On Jan 13, 2009, at 5:10 PM, Robert Sloan wrote: Wow! I had no idea. I always looked in the Search menu, because I figured that was what could be searched. I figured the Bookmark menu must be some extra feature for ME to add bookmarks that

Re: [Bibdesk-users] DOIs as URLs

2009-01-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Yes and no. Normal fields are not supported anymore as clickable URLs, as that's deprecated. However if you define DOI as a URL field, it will be automatically linked as a linked URL on import. Christiaan On 15 Jan 2009, at 11:11 PM, Gregory Jefferis wrote: Hello, Is it possible to have

Re: [Bibdesk-users] ixtheo

2009-01-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 21 Jan 2009, at 2:12 PM, Benjamin Koppe wrote: Hello, I want to find out, if there is any chance to import from the ixtheo database. The address is www.ixtheo.de They have a download function, but all you get is an rtf file. I just do not find if there and a function to import the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] ixtheo

2009-01-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.comwrote: On 21 Jan 2009, at 2:12 PM, Benjamin Koppe wrote: Hello, I want to find out, if there is any chance to import from the ixtheo database. The address is www.ixtheo.de They have a download function, but all you

Re: [Bibdesk-users] ixtheo

2009-01-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
, asking for the format etc... So let's see, what they say. De Benny Am 21.01.2009 um 15:17 schrieb Christiaan Hofman: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 Jan 2009, at 2:12 PM, Benjamin Koppe wrote: Hello, I want to find out, if there is any

Re: [Bibdesk-users] medical resume

2009-01-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 23 Jan 2009, at 2:47 PM, Daniele Pontillo wrote: Hello! When writing a medical resume, the bibliograpic references should be sorted following a predefined order of appearance: publications in international journals, international proceedings, domestic journals, domestic proceedings,

Re: [Bibdesk-users] medical resume

2009-01-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 23 Jan 2009, at 3:55 PM, Daniele Pontillo wrote: well, thanks to everyone. The point is that there is a coarse way to get the job done, i.e. copy and paste from a pdf output and then placing the section titles. What I'd like is an elegant manner to solve the issue. My greatest caveats

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Ready for a new release?

2009-01-24 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 24 Jan 2009, at 12:35 PM, Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote: Le 24 janv. 09 à 12:12, Christiaan Hofman a écrit : This is not really true, it's just been disabled by default. See the Wiki how to re-enable this feature using a hidden preference. The reason is that the check is far too generic

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Ready for a new release?

2009-01-24 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 24 Jan 2009, at 6:19 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jan 24, 2009, at 2:17 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 24 Jan 2009, at 12:35 PM, Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote: Le 24 janv. 09 à 12:12, Christiaan Hofman a écrit : This is not really true, it's just been disabled by default. See

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Loss of local file links

2009-01-24 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 24 Jan 2009, at 8:26 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jan 24, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Will Monroe wrote: If it helps, the path in the reference you posted is ../../../../papers/WoutersTabbersPaas2007.pdf and this should be relative to the .bib file. We still need to know why the aliases

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Loss of local file links

2009-01-24 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 24 Jan 2009, at 8:56 PM, Will Monroe wrote: On Jan 24, 2009, at 1:37 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: Also, whenever you move either a linked files or the .bib file, make sure you save the .bib file afterwards, to update all information for the linked files. You can change one part

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Ready for a new release?

2009-01-24 Thread Christiaan Hofman
to Import Publications. Thank you! Miguel Le 24 janv. 09 à 20:45, Christiaan Hofman a écrit : Sorry, not your fault, it's a problem with the scripting support. I've attached a fixed version of BibDesk.sdef, please replace the one in your BibDesk.app bundle (select in Finder, control-click

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Ready for a new release?

2009-01-24 Thread Christiaan Hofman
-generation of the key. Cheers, Miguel Le 24 janv. 09 à 22:03, Christiaan Hofman a écrit : Please download a fixed version of the script hook from the Wiki. Christiaan On 24 Jan 2009, at 9:20 PM, Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote: Sorry, still doesn't work... Should I do anything else after

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Ready for a new release?

2009-01-24 Thread Christiaan Hofman
. Cheers, Miguel Le 24 janv. 09 à 22:03, Christiaan Hofman a écrit : Please download a fixed version of the script hook from the Wiki. Christiaan On 24 Jan 2009, at 9:20 PM, Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote: Sorry, still doesn't work... Should I do anything else after replacing the sdef file

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Ready for a new release?

2009-01-25 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 25 Jan 2009, at 12:07 PM, Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote: Le 25 janv. 09 à 11:50, Christiaan Hofman a écrit : On 25 Jan 2009, at 11:14 AM, Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote: Thanks, Christian. It now works as I wanted (that is: cite-key is added and pdf auto- filed) provided I set up

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Ready for a new release?

2009-01-25 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 25 Jan 2009, at 12:53 PM, Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote: Le 25 janv. 09 à 12:17, Christiaan Hofman a écrit : On 25 Jan 2009, at 12:07 PM, Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote: Le 25 janv. 09 à 11:50, Christiaan Hofman a écrit : On 25 Jan 2009, at 11:14 AM, Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Colour labels like in Finder possible?

2009-01-25 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 26 Jan 2009, at 12:44 AM, Jonas Zimmermann wrote: Hi, as my bibliography database grows and grows I thought it might be helpful if I could colour-label references (e.g. to mark important ones), basically like in Finder. How hard would it be to add something like it? (I've played with

Re: [Bibdesk-users] pubmed import clean-up script

2009-01-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 26 Jan 2009, at 5:29 PM, Mark Moll wrote: The PubMed search and import functionality in BibDesk is great, but it creates a large number of bogus fields. It also appends a period to the end of the title and the year field is sometimes used as a date field. I wrote a little AppleScript to

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Open Meta tag support in BibDesk?

2009-01-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Christiaan Hofman: Moving this to the bibdesk list from the Skim list. On 25 Jan 2009, at 5:54 PM, Rolf Schmolling wrote: Hi, I support this idea! What about converting the keywords one applies to Bibdesk-items into openmeta-tags (I mean in addition) Thanks, Rolf I'd indeed say

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Intended meaning of publication icon

2009-01-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.comwrote: On 26 Jan 2009, at 8:22 PM, Jonas Zimmermann wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I just stumbled across some unexpected behaviour: I had the info window of a publication open and wanted

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Intended meaning of publication icon

2009-01-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 26 Jan 2009, at 9:10 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 01/26/09 11:51, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: Correction, the file icon does not seem to be the one for the linked file, but for the .bib document file. This is not as intended, probably some OS update has changed

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Intended meaning of publication icon

2009-01-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 26 Jan 2009, at 9:55 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 01/26/09 12:17, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 Jan 2009, at 9:10 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 01/26/09 11:51, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: Correction, the file icon does not seem to be the one

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Intended meaning of publication icon

2009-01-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 27 Jan 2009, at 12:51 AM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 01/26/09 15:39, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: One reason for the swizzling was also because we use this in various windows (it really should be possible out-of-the-box to override the default behavior). I think

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Open Meta tag support in BibDesk?

2009-01-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 28 Jan 2009, at 9:26 AM, Rolf Schmolling wrote: Am 27.01.2009 um 23:38 schrieb Christiaan Hofman: … I've noticed some time ago that on Leopard any extended attributes (such as openmeta tags) are preserved by a Save performed by any Cocoa document-based app (such as Skim). Unless

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Colour labels like in Finder possible?

2009-01-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 28 Jan 2009, at 4:30 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jan 28, 2009, at 6:54 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jan 28, 2009, at 4:05 AM, Jonas Zimmermann wrote: Adam, Thanks a lot! definitely no waste of time! Although I must say I like the Finder/Journler/attached-file-in-BD approach

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibDesk and glossaries package

2009-01-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 28 Jan 2009, at 8:16 PM, Christian wrote: Hi, I know that BibDesk works together with the gloss package to create libraries for a glossar. Because the glossaries package is more up to date and more flexible, it would be nice if BibDesk would work for glossaries as it does for gloss. I

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Colour labels like in Finder possible?

2009-01-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.comwrote: On 28 Jan 2009, at 4:30 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jan 28, 2009, at 6:54 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jan 28, 2009, at 4:05 AM, Jonas Zimmermann wrote: Adam, Thanks a lot! definitely no waste of time

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Colour labels like in Finder possible?

2009-01-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 29 Jan 2009, at 2:02 PM, Jonas Zimmermann wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29.01.2009, at 12:23, Christiaan Hofman wrote: I've changed it to use Adam's ideas, so using Mail's procedures. The main reason is that it requires almost no UI, and the UI it adds

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Colour labels like in Finder possible?

2009-01-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 28 Jan 2009, at 3:54 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jan 28, 2009, at 4:05 AM, Jonas Zimmermann wrote: Adam, Thanks a lot! definitely no waste of time! Although I must say I like the Finder/Journler/attached-file-in-BD approach better (a few predefined labels, accessible via the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Searching e-mail archives?

2009-01-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 29 Jan 2009, at 4:21 PM, Cloy Tobola wrote: When I go to the page for this list: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=bibdesk- users ... there doesn't seem to be any way to search the archive. Did the search feature disappear, or am I overlooking it? Thnx! -c

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Intro / biblatex

2009-01-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 29 Jan 2009, at 4:25 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: On 29.01.2009, at 16:17, Gerrit Glabbart wrote: Am 29.01.2009 um 04:26 schrieb Sam Russell: One frustration I had with BibDesk was the pain in changing entry headings to match biblatex's recommended values. Until I sat down with the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Colour labels like in Finder possible?

2009-01-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 29 Jan 2009, at 4:24 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jan 29, 2009, at 1:23 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: I've changed it to use Adam's ideas, so using Mail's procedures. The main reason is that it requires almost no UI, and the UI it adds is completely standard. Cool. I noticed

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Optimizing files for quicker response

2009-01-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 29 Jan 2009, at 4:49 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jan 29, 2009, at 9:38 AM, Cloy Tobola wrote: I have a Bibdesk bibliography file that's getting large - 1.1mb with 315 sources. (Breaking it into smaller files isn't a good option right now.) This is small in terms of what BibDesk

Re: [Bibdesk-users] crash with nightly {v 1329)

2009-01-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
This crasher has nothing specifically to do with the latest nightly AFAICS. It's occurring while drawing a preview icon for aPDF file, and that code has not been touched for months. It looks like it may be that you have a corrupt font cache, a common problem. See the Skim FAQ how you may

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Open Meta tag support in BibDesk?

2009-01-30 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 30 Jan 2009, at 11:04 AM, Rolf Schmolling wrote: Hi Adam, well I am able to either search/see tags with smart folders (tag:promotion) directly, or - use HoudahSpot (specifying openmeta-tags as a search-criterion) - use Tagit by ironic software (free) (creates smart folders; can search

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Optimizing files for quicker response

2009-01-30 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 30 Jan 2009, at 3:39 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: On 30.01.2009, at 15:27, Michael McCracken wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Jonas Zimmermann lis...@jonaszimmermann.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29.01.2009, at 15:38, Cloy Tobola wrote: I have a

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Open Meta tag support in BibDesk?

2009-01-30 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 30 Jan 2009, at 4:50 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jan 30, 2009, at 11:49 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: So where could BibDesk come into this workflow? Any idea what you would like it to do? I could imagine BD to search tags, but I'm hesitant to add another search criterium. Yeah

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Remove Web and Recent Import

2009-01-30 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 30 Jan 2009, at 7:00 PM, Sumit Narayan wrote: Thanks for the shortcut Adam. Sumit On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Maxwell, Adam R adam.maxw...@pnl.gov wrote: On 01/30/09 09:51, Sumit Narayan sumna...@gmail.com wrote: As a suggestion - if we had an option to enforce cite-key

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BD refuses to start up [was: Re: BD crash with nightly {v 1329)]

2009-02-01 Thread Christiaan Hofman
And did you reset your font caches? Christiaan On 1 Feb 2009, at 1:26 PM, Alex Hamann wrote: Hi, follow up to my previous post: so my system reported a problem which required Disk Utility to repair the HD. Before doing that I tried to remove BD completely and reinstall different nightlies

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BD refuses to start up [was: Re: BD crash with nightly {v 1329)]

2009-02-01 Thread Christiaan Hofman
If the crash report mentions a problem with _PDFDocumentTitleAttribute, than this bug will be fixed (really a combination of a known Apple bug in Tiger combined with a known documentation bug on Leopard). Christiaan On 1 Feb 2009, at 4:11 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Feb 1, 2009, at

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BD refuses to start up [was: Re: BD crash with nightly {v 1329)]

2009-02-01 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 1 Feb 2009, at 8:29 PM, Alex Hamann wrote: On 01.02.2009, at 15:39, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 1 Feb 2009, at 4:11 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Feb 1, 2009, at 4:26 AM, Alex Hamann wrote: BD 1.3.19 works flawlessly! Re-trying todays nightly resulted in BD not starting up again

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BD refuses to start up [was: Re: BD crash with nightly {v 1329)]

2009-02-01 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 1 Feb 2009, at 11:57 PM, Alex Hamann wrote: On 01.02.2009, at 21:56, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 1 Feb 2009, at 8:29 PM, Alex Hamann wrote: On 01.02.2009, at 15:39, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 1 Feb 2009, at 4:11 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Feb 1, 2009, at 4:26 AM, Alex Hamann

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Lower- or uppercase in CiteKey

2009-02-06 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 6 Feb 2009, at 6:17 PM, Julie Bellule wrote: Hello, First of all, thank you very much for the duo Bibdesk-Skim which really makes work easier and is so powerful. I have a little question which is not of primary importance. I'm used to create the CiteKey of my entries manually. I have

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Generating a Bibliography for Scientific Papers

2009-02-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 8 Feb 2009, at 2:28 PM, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Stephen D. Scotti ssco...@mac.com wrote: Are there templates or macros that can be used to generate a bibliography of selected references in a BibDesk database. I have a large database that I

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Delete linked files

2009-02-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 11 Feb 2009, at 10:20 AM, Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote: Hi, I have one applescript that I use to delete linked files from a publication. Although I sometimes keep this publication in my library, I normally use the script as a previous step to delete the publication itself. The idea is

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Delete linked files

2009-02-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 11 Feb 2009, at 11:49 AM, Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote: This script doesn't work with BibDesk 1.3.19 (1387) (I think it was a nightly from late December, when pdf DOI parsing was added, not that I say this has anything to do, just to put a date), ie. it does remove the file from the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Delete linked files

2009-02-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 11 Feb 2009, at 1:10 PM, Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote: Le 11 févr. 09 à 12:05, Christiaan Hofman a écrit : Oops! I was convinced it had... but of course you must be right. Can this be done via a script-hook attached to 'Remove File or URL'? Thank you! Miguel I don't think

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Delete linked files

2009-02-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.comwrote: On 11 Feb 2009, at 1:10 PM, Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote: Le 11 févr. 09 à 12:05, Christiaan Hofman a écrit : Oops! I was convinced it had... but of course you must be right. Can this be done via a script-hook

Re: [Bibdesk-users] New group based on latex source

2009-02-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
I don't think this is listed anywhere except for this list. Someone could add such tips to the WIki though. Christiaan On 11 Feb 2009, at 3:34 PM, Sumit Narayan wrote: Is there any web page that lists all these tricks? I didn't know about this one. --Sumit On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Error report not reading current bib?

2009-02-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.comwrote: On 11 Feb 2009, at 8:12 PM, . wrote: Hello, I went to the archives to search for this issue, but there is no search field. URL: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=bibdesk-users

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Error report not reading current bib?

2009-02-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 11 Feb 2009, at 8:12 PM, . wrote: Hello, I went to the archives to search for this issue, but there is no search field. URL: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=bibdesk-users There is a search field for source forge, of course in the upper right, but none for

Re: [Bibdesk-users] New group based on latex source

2009-02-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
unless you already know it exists ... --J On 11 Feb 2009, at 10:51 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: I don't think this is listed anywhere except for this list. Someone could add such tips to the WIki though. Christiaan On 11 Feb 2009, at 3:34 PM, Sumit Narayan wrote: Is there any web page

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Open PDF on click

2009-02-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 13 Feb 2009, at 9:48 AM, Alex Hamann wrote: On 13.02.2009, at 07:06, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Sumit Narayan sumna...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Not sure if anyone feels this way. I usually edit the Bibtex entries for a PDF/reference once and for all.

Re: [Bibdesk-users] new nightly build server

2009-02-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 13 Feb 2009, at 4:53 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: Nightly builds are now being hosted at http://michael-mccracken.net/bibdesk/nightlies/ I'm having a problem with uploading, but hopefully will have time to figure that out this weekend. OK, I'll update the home page. Probably we

[Bibdesk-users] New nightlies location

2009-02-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Hi all, The nightly builds for BibDesk have been relocated to http://michael-mccracken.net/bibdesk/nightlies Particularly important for the testers for the next release. Christiaan -- Open Source Business Conference

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Title Capitalized Preview

2009-02-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
What type of preview are you talking about? You can have TeX preview (separate window or View Bottom Preview TeX) and template preview (View Bottom Preview (template name)). The former is determined by the bibtex style that you use and the latter is determined by the template that you

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Open PDF on click

2009-02-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 13 Feb 2009, at 6:12 PM, Robert Sloan wrote: I agree with others that I want clicking to open the entry for editing not to open the PDF. I have a different but somewhat related suggestion: In the main grid, with the right-side panel open that shows the thumbnails, I want to be able to

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Open Meta tag support in BibDesk?

2009-02-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 13 Feb 2009, at 8:29 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 01/29/09 06:54, Adam R. Maxwell amaxw...@mac.com wrote: Rolf, I must have missed this, but how are you using the tags? One of your posts mentioned smart folders, but I don't believe Finder supports searching extended attribute

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Error report not reading current bib?

2009-02-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 14 Feb 2009, at 1:40 AM, . wrote: On 2/11/09 3:03 PM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 Feb 2009, at 8:12 PM, . wrote: snip Anyway, I am having trouble with error correction. Here's

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Error report not reading current bib?

2009-02-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 14 Feb 2009, at 2:07 AM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 02/13/09 16:54, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 Feb 2009, at 8:12 PM, . wrote: I have tried repeatedly saving the file, and quitting BibDesk and reopening it. The same list of errors is repeated, despite my

Re: [Bibdesk-users] TeX Preview functioning with biblatex?

2009-02-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 16 Feb 2009, at 11:53 PM, Arik Ohnstad wrote: Sorry to be ambiguous. The PDF preview process ends with this message in the floating window: * ERROR: unable to create preview * There is no RTF preview, I imagine for the reason you stated. The question is: where, in the PDF

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Writing importers for BibDesk?

2009-02-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Are you aware of the Web Group? Christiaan On 18 Feb 2009, at 6:29 PM, Douglas Stebila wrote: Is there a standard, simple way to write and install methods for BibDesk to import citations from Safari/Firefox? Here's the scenario I'm thinking of. Users are browsing the web in Safari or

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Writing importers for BibDesk?

2009-02-20 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 20 Feb 2009, at 6:45 AM, Douglas Stebila wrote: On 2009-Feb-19, at 1:20 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: Are you aware of the Web Group? The Web Group is nice, but (a) does not fit naturally into many people's workflow, and (b) does not allow for adding importers without altering

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Writing importers for BibDesk?

2009-02-20 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 20 Feb 2009, at 4:48 PM, Douglas Stebila wrote: On 2009-Feb-20, at 8:42 AM, Michael McCracken wrote: The Web Group is nice, but (a) does not fit naturally into many people's workflow, and (b) does not allow for adding importers without altering the BibDesk source code. If we solve

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Writing importers for BibDesk?

2009-02-20 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 20 Feb 2009, at 4:38 PM, Michael McCracken wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 Feb 2009, at 6:45 AM, Douglas Stebila wrote: On 2009-Feb-19, at 1:20 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: Are you aware of the Web Group? The Web Group

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Writing importers for BibDesk?

2009-02-20 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 20 Feb 2009, at 8:14 PM, Louis-Jean Teitelbaum wrote: Le 20 févr. 09 à 16:42, Michael McCracken a écrit : The Web Group is nice, but (a) does not fit naturally into many people's workflow, and (b) does not allow for adding importers without altering the BibDesk source code. If we

Re: [Bibdesk-users] crash - or maybe not

2009-02-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Yea, this is the same crasher as bug # 2124370. Unfortunately I haven't got a clue why. Christiaan On 21 Feb 2009, at 11:44 PM, Alex Hamann wrote: BD just went unresponsive for ~20 seconds and I got a crash report. Still, even thought BD supposedly crashed (according to the report) it in

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Writing importers for BibDesk?

2009-02-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
If this is a lot of change to the existing code, could you perhaps wait a little bit? I'm in the process of a quite extensive rewrite on another branch. Yeah, I thought about the omni-removal after I wrote that - I actually haven't had as much free time this weekend as I thought, so I

Re: [Bibdesk-users] 0 publications in web group

2009-02-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
I can confirm this, it can't find the BibTeX links in the web page. I think this may be due to changes in Google Scholar's html. It seems that they degraded their html from valid modern xhtml to old style html, which makes it significantly harder to parse. That's the problem with web

Re: [Bibdesk-users] 0 publications in web group

2009-02-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
I've fixed this for the next nightly. Linking the URL unfortunately won't work anymore. Be aware though that the nightlies have undergone quite extensive rewrites, the French localization won't work and I'm not sure if they'll run on Tiger. But I'd be interested to know how they perform

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Question about using macros

2009-02-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 23 Feb 2009, at 6:37 PM, Nathan Paxton wrote: On 23 Feb 2009, at 11:58 AM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 02/23/09 08:49, Nathan Paxton napax...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: Publisher = {pup}, should be Publisher = pup (no quotes). Why does BD put the braces in? I simply entered pup and

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Question about using macros

2009-02-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 23 Feb 2009, at 6:50 PM, Nathan Paxton wrote: This feature is support for bibtex's macros. You're basically supposed to be familiar with bibtex if you use this feature, otherwise you're not supposed to be interested in it. Christiaan Sorry. I hadn't realized that Macros

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Autogeneration

2009-02-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 26 Feb 2009, at 10:22 PM, Jonas Zimmermann wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 26.02.2009 um 21:09 schrieb Alex Montgomery: I usually manually fix them afterwards; an alternative would be to write a script hook to automatically generate a cite key when

Re: [Bibdesk-users] hyphens in quick search queries

2009-02-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 27 Feb 2009, at 1:10 AM, Stuart Andrews wrote: Hi, Occasionally, I need to search my publications by their Cite Keys, which are autogenerated with hyphens (e.g. mccra-maxwe-hofma- etal04a-bgamyb). Trouble is, when I search for smith-adams in the Quick Search field, and I ask for

Re: [Bibdesk-users] hyphens in quick search queries

2009-02-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 27 Feb 2009, at 1:57 AM, Stuart Andrews wrote: On Feb 26, 2009, at 7:29 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 27 Feb 2009, at 1:10 AM, Stuart Andrews wrote: Hi, Occasionally, I need to search my publications by their Cite Keys, which are autogenerated with hyphens (e.g. mccra-maxwe

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