Re: [Bibdesk-users] making smart groups lazy

2009-02-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Sorry, this is not possible, and I can't see how this could ever be made possible. Christiaan On 27 Feb 2009, at 1:59 AM, Stuart Andrews wrote: Hi, Is there a way to make smart groups a little lazy? I find smart groups extremely useful for organizing my bibliography. However, it seems

Re: [Bibdesk-users] making smart groups lazy

2009-02-27 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 27 Feb 2009, at 7:28 PM, Stuart Andrews wrote: Thanks Adam, As I am just connecting to sourceforge, I have not looked at the code. But once I get that far, I will be asking myself why we need to cycle through all publications after edited just one? Because we don't know where the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] making smart groups lazy

2009-02-27 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Please try the latest source or next nightly to see if it's sufficiently improved. Christiaan On 27 Feb 2009, at 7:28 PM, Stuart Andrews wrote: Thanks Adam, As I am just connecting to sourceforge, I have not looked at the code. But once I get that far, I will be asking myself why we

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Warning: information for AutoFile

2009-02-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 28 Feb 2009, at 7:28 AM, Christian wrote: Hi, I created a new publication: @manual{Pakin2008, Author = {Pakin, S.}, Month = {Januar}, Title = {The Comprehensive \LaTeX{} Symbol List}, Year = {2008}} and added the downloaded pdf by dragging it to the window.

Re: [Bibdesk-users] making smart groups lazy

2009-02-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Really? Almost all changes are in code, not too much in the UI. Christiaan On 28 Feb 2009, at 8:37 AM, Stuart Andrews wrote: I just opened the nightly build, and the difference is amazing ... nice job! - S. On Feb 27, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: Please try the latest

Re: [Bibdesk-users] adjusting format of multiple citations to biblatex

2009-02-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 28 Feb 2009, at 9:11 PM, Alex Hamann wrote: Hi, BibDesk provides some options for adjusting dragdrop of multiple citations in its preferences under the menu Cite Command Style. Would it be possible to add the biblatex style of doing: \cites{key1} {key2}? Note that Biblatex requires an

Re: [Bibdesk-users] adjusting format of multiple citations to biblatex

2009-02-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.comwrote: On 28 Feb 2009, at 9:11 PM, Alex Hamann wrote: Hi, BibDesk provides some options for adjusting dragdrop of multiple citations in its preferences under the menu Cite Command Style. Would it be possible to add

Re: [Bibdesk-users] default templates

2009-03-03 Thread Christiaan Hofman
optimally in all cases. If it becomes more widely used and anyone has any problems, please feel free to let me know (especially if you know how to fix it!) and I'll try to make improvements. Jim Harrison On Mar 3, 2009, at 4:11 PM, Alex Hamann wrote: On 03.03.2009, at 18:25, Christiaan Hofman

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Bibdesk crash - using Field Search Replace-script

2009-03-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
The crash apparently takes place in the quick search functionality. I wonder, did you have anything in the search field (in the toolbar) at that point? As I've seen this crash before (there are a few on the bug tracker) and I've never been able to discover anything wrong in the code, I

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Bibdesk crash - using Field Search Replace-script

2009-03-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
to SearchKit, and in your later report it was in searching). My guess is that SearchKit has a thread safety bug. Christiaan On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.comwrote: This is a very different crasher from the previous one (compare the top of the Thread 0 trace). I

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Bibdesk crash - using Field Search Replace-script

2009-03-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 4 Mar 2009, at 6:33 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: Tracking this down has uncovered a couple of problems, so will take some time to figure out what's actually going wrong. I also added a few small changes to the index search, so make sure you update. In the meantime, you probably won't

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Send via Email

2009-03-05 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Thanks, that should be fixed in the current nightly. Christiaan On 5 Mar 2009, at 1:57 AM, Peter Cowan wrote: First, thanks to the developers for all the time and effort they put into developing and improving BibDesk. I notice that when I select a publication and choose Send via Email

Re: [Bibdesk-users] RTF preview template (was: Re: default templates)

2009-03-06 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 7 Mar 2009, at 12:00 AM, Alex Hamann wrote: On 03.03.2009, at 21:32, James Harrison wrote: Also, if there was any thought of including my preview template in BibDesk, I'd want to do a little work on it, perhaps with some help from someone who is deeply knowledgeable about templates. It

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Templates...

2009-03-07 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 7 Mar 2009, at 6:19 PM, Jonas Zimmermann wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, just a question about templates. I've only now looked at them after the discussion of the previous days. First, the documentation of the template keys seems a bit inconsistent: localURL

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Templates...

2009-03-07 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 7 Mar 2009, at 7:33 PM, Jonas Zimmermann wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 07.03.2009 um 18:01 schrieb Christiaan Hofman: But that's just minor. I wanted to get a link to the file with abbreviated path (just as in the standard template), but using

Re: [Bibdesk-users] performance

2009-03-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 9 Mar 2009, at 11:35 AM, Alex Hamann wrote: Am I wrong or has performance improved notably with recent nightlies? On my archaic G4 (1GHz) with 768MB Ram I think loading and saving of files seems faster now. If so, nice job. (If not, well, then I wonder if my iBook decided to make my life

Re: [Bibdesk-users] small bug in nightly

2009-03-10 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 11 Mar 2009, at 1:23 AM, Alex Hamann wrote: Version 1.3.20 (1429) when I add a new static group I get the warning that this action will change the keyword in 0 item. After clicking ok the first keyword is then selected in the keyword column on the left. Does no harm but is obviously the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] small bug in nightly

2009-03-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 11 Mar 2009, at 10:57 AM, Alex Hamann wrote: On 11.03.2009, at 01:18, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 11 Mar 2009, at 1:23 AM, Alex Hamann wrote: Version 1.3.20 (1429) when I add a new static group I get the warning that this action will change the keyword in 0 item. After clicking ok

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Crash

2009-03-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 11 Mar 2009, at 5:08 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 03/11/09 09:03, Lilie Wolf lilie.w...@gmail.com wrote: Here is a part of the report: Unfortunately, the rest of the report is the useful part... In particular the section just below this, after the line Thread 0 Crashed:. Also tell

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Crash

2009-03-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Have you ever messed with hidden prefs, in particular BDSKGroupFieldSeparatorCharactersKey? (if you don't know what I'm talking about the answer is no). Christiaan On 11 Mar 2009, at 5:12 PM, Lilie Wolf wrote: Sorry! Here it is! (at the end of this email) 2009/3/11 Maxwell, Adam R

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Crash

2009-03-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
perfectly. Lilie 2009/3/11 Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com Have you ever messed with hidden prefs, in particular BDSKGroupFieldSeparatorCharactersKey? (if you don't know what I'm talking about the answer is no). Christiaan On 11 Mar 2009, at 5:12 PM, Lilie Wolf wrote: Sorry! Here

Re: [Bibdesk-users] removing a url

2009-03-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Open the publication's info window, select the file or URL, and hit Delete. You can also use the contextual menu. Christiaan On 11 Mar 2009, at 7:59 PM, Patrick E. Lanigan wrote: This is a very basic question, but for the life of me I can't figure it out. Once I add a URL to a

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Crash

2009-03-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 11 Mar 2009, at 8:20 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 03/11/09 10:02, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: My best guess is that Adam's nightly build script somehow uses the NIBs from a different working copy (his private source). Since the build program explicitly sets OBJROOT

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Crash

2009-03-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Lilie Wolf lilie.w...@gmail.com wrote: I tried again (removing all BibDesk files before launching), and still have the crash. But since I seem to be the only one with this problem, it must come from this computer. But I just don't get why!!? What do you mean

Re: [Bibdesk-users] removing a url

2009-03-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
bibtex Url or Local-url field. I'm talking about the BibDesk-specific URL field (i.e., the one that shows up in the source file as Bdsk-Url-n). For the record, I'm using version 1.3.20. Thanks, Patrick Message: 5 Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:07:26 +0100 From: Christiaan Hofman cmhof

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Crash

2009-03-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
OK, that's the problem then. I noted a while back that the French localization in the nightlies is not functional. I thought that should be obvious. So let me repeatt that generally the French localization in the nightlies will never be safe, unless we're close to a release (it doesn't

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Crash

2009-03-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 11 Mar 2009, at 10:19 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 03/11/09 13:30, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: OK, that's the problem then. I noted a while back that the French localization in the nightlies is not functional. I thought that should be obvious. This problem has arisen

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Crash

2009-03-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
menu. Thanks a lot for BibDesk and this valuable mailing list, Lilie 2009/3/11 Maxwell, Adam R adam.maxw...@pnl.gov On 03/11/09 13:30, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: OK, that's the problem then. I noted a while back that the French localization in the nightlies

Re: [Bibdesk-users] CodeSign error?

2009-03-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
You need to have a certificate named BibDesk Signing Certificate in your keychain, more details linked on the Wiki. Christiaan On 11 Mar 2009, at 10:53 PM, Jonas Zimmermann wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, I just tried to compile my current svn checkout. I

Re: [Bibdesk-users] openmeta and safety

2009-03-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 12 Mar 2009, at 8:13 AM, Rolf Schmolling wrote: Hi all, I want to point you all to a new thread on the use and usability of openmeta: http://ironicsoftware.com/community/comments.php?DiscussionID=755page=1#Item_15 Regards, Rolf -- Rolf Schmolling M.A. Historian,

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibDesk starts with Search Relevance column in the main window

2009-03-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 12 Mar 2009, at 6:10 PM, Jan Anderssen wrote: Hi - I just noticed the following behavior, I'm not sure if it's intended, so I thought I'd mention it. When I search my bibliography in BibDesk and then quit the program without clearing the search, BibDesk will start the next time and

Re: [Bibdesk-users] nightly

2009-03-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Thanks, I have it fixed. Christiaan On 13 Mar 2009, at 5:33 PM, Alex Hamann wrote: with today's and yesterday's nightlies the icons for the keywords are not displayed anymore in the left column. I just get the name of the keyword following an empty space (the question mark for empty

Re: [Bibdesk-users] another issue with today's nightly: default fields prefs

2009-03-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 14 Mar 2009, at 8:49 PM, Alex Hamann wrote: sorry for keeping 'em coming but when I start BD and then go to the default fields preferences I see the following incorrect behavior: the list of the custom bibtex fields does not allow me to scroll through it (The blue bullet of the scrolling

Re: [Bibdesk-users] another issue with today's nightly: default fields prefs

2009-03-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 15 Mar 2009, at 12:29 AM, Alex Hamann wrote: On 14.03.2009, at 20:24, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 14 Mar 2009, at 8:49 PM, Alex Hamann wrote: sorry for keeping 'em coming but when I start BD and then go to the default fields preferences I see the following incorrect behavior: the list

Re: [Bibdesk-users] another issue with today's nightly: default fields prefs

2009-03-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 15 Mar 2009, at 2:35 PM, Alex Hamann wrote: On 14.03.2009, at 23:48, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 15 Mar 2009, at 12:29 AM, Alex Hamann wrote: On 14.03.2009, at 20:24, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 14 Mar 2009, at 8:49 PM, Alex Hamann wrote: sorry for keeping 'em coming but when I

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Template bug

2009-03-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
This never worked. As the online Help says, you can't mix comparisons. Christiaan On 16 Mar 2009, at 2:06 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: Hi, I have a problem with template tags. The strange thing is that I'm quite sure that this used to work and that I see no error in my template. The following

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Author name standing byitself

2009-03-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
You'll have to edit the template by hand as RTF, e.g. using TextEdit, and manually use an indenting paragraph style for the lines you want to indent. Compare the default RTF template. Christiaan On 18 Mar 2009, at 2:25 PM, Hanna Nari Kahle wrote: Hi, I am using the Bibdesk Template and

Re: [Bibdesk-users] problem with google scholar direct import

2009-03-24 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 24 Mar 2009, at 6:53 PM, Alex Morgan wrote: Hi, Lately I've been having trouble with the Google Scholar search within Bibdesk. The results of my searches aren't showing up in the Bibdesk window beneath the Google Scholar results page, which prevents me from importing the results

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibTeX styles in the TeX preview menu

2009-03-25 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 25 Mar 2009, at 3:49 PM, Lilie Wolf wrote: Hello, I change the bibliography style I use to generate the preview very often. I use different styles depending on what I need to read/ export (the abstract, my comments, the reference, etc.). I found in the help that the list in the menu

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Author name standing byitself (Hanna Nari Kahle)

2009-03-27 Thread Christiaan Hofman
g byitself (Hanna Nari Kahle) 3. Re: Author name standing byitself (Christiaan Hofman) 4. totally new to bibdesk (Liz Vivas) 5. Re: totally new to bibdesk (Maxwell, Adam R) 6. problem with google scholar direct import (Alex Morgan) 7. Re: problem with google scholar direct import (

Re: [Bibdesk-users] getting rid of the runaway string warnings?

2009-03-30 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 30 Mar 2009, at 12:24 PM, Alan Schmitt wrote: Hello, Each time I load my bibliography file I get some warnings about possible runaway strings. Looking in the file, they are caused by entries with key Bdsk-File-1, so it seems that bibdesk generated it. I search the list a little,

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Script ids and PDF renaming

2009-04-03 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 3 Apr 2009, at 10:51 PM, James Howison wrote: On 3 Apr 2009, at 12:23 PM, Malcolm Wardlaw wrote: I have two questions that I can't seem to find the answer to. First, I want to write a script to rename all of my attached PDFs to a specified format. I can't seem to find any

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Correction to APA Style template on Wiki

2009-04-06 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 6 Apr 2009, at 11:12 AM, Cloy Tobola wrote: The current APA Style template for Author + Year citations (i.e., parenthetic or in-text citations) posted on the Wiki has a discrepancy. When a source has three, four or five authors, ALL names are included in the citation on first

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Bibdesk-users Digest, Vol 35, Issue 21

2009-04-06 Thread Christiaan Hofman
: 1. Re: Author name standing byitself (Hanna Nari Kahle) (Christiaan Hofman) 2. nightly builds may be offline (Adam R. Maxwell) -- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:59:57 +0100 From: Christiaan Hofman cmhof

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Bibdesk-users Digest, Vol 35, Issue 21

2009-04-06 Thread Christiaan Hofman
, and the downward pointing triangle at the right determines the right margin. Christiaan On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:31 AM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.comwrote: What's possible in RTF is possible in BibDesk. And if I understand you correctly, this is possible with the proper paragraph style. I think

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Year field has extra data

2009-04-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 12 Apr 2009, at 12:19 PM, Cloy Tobola wrote: The citations I've downloaded from EBSCO for the last month or so have extra data at the end of the year field. Some examples: 2007/12// 2008/07//Jul-Sep2008 2003/// That goofs things up with my APA export templates, which typically

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Year field has extra data

2009-04-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 12 Apr 2009, at 12:19 PM, Cloy Tobola wrote: The citations I've downloaded from EBSCO for the last month or so have extra data at the end of the year field. Some examples: 2007/12// 2008/07//Jul-Sep2008 2003/// That goofs things up with my APA export templates, which typically

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Year field has extra data

2009-04-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
(as below). BibDesk 1.3.20 imports the whole line into the year field. I haven't tried the latest nightlies. BibTex citations from those sites (if available) don't have the problem. Jim Harrison On Apr 12, 2009, at 7:47 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 12 Apr 2009, at 12:19 PM, Cloy Tobola wrote

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Author's name

2009-04-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Hofman) 4. Re: Year field has extra data (Christiaan Hofman) 5. Re: Year field has extra data (James Harrison) 6. Re: Year field has extra data (Christiaan Hofman) 7. Re: Year field has extra data (Cloy Tobola) 8. Re: Year field has extra data (Cloy Tobola

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Author keywords in template

2009-04-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
It looks like you have an encoding problem. Text templates should always be saved (and the result to be read) using UTF-8 encoding. You seem to be using a Japanese encoding. The main problem is that this encoding is AFAIK the only encoding that does not include ASCII (which IMHO is a

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Is the Custom BibTeX Fields Pane Supposed to Be Scrollable?

2009-04-24 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 24 Apr 2009, at 11:09 PM, Gerrit Glabbart wrote: Hey everybody, in my attempt to adapt BibDesk for Biblatex I want to add a number of new, Biblatex-specific fields as default. I'm having difficulty doing this, though, because the 'Custom BibTeX Fields' Pane in the Preferences has no

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Windows Apps

2009-04-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Sure, just look for any app that can read bibtex. Christiaan On 28 Apr 2009, at 11:30 AM, Stephen D. Scotti wrote: Is there an open source windows app that allows you to import a BibDesk database file completely? Stephen D. Scotti ssco...@mac.com

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Adding biblio entries by adding PDFs lose diacritics

2009-04-30 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Extracting a DOI from a PDF is never fool proof, and moreover some PDFs (scanned PDFs) don't contain text, only images. BibDesk gets the bibliography information from NCBI using their documented query methods, but this apparently drops diacritics. It seems that they also provide an XML

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Adding biblio entries by adding PDFs lose diacritics

2009-05-02 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 2 May 2009, at 9:10 AM, Grant Jacobs wrote: Christiaan Greg, Sorry I'm slow getting back to you on this. Extracting a DOI from a PDF is never fool proof, and moreover some PDFs (scanned PDFs) don't contain text, only images. I realise: I wasn't complaining, but summarising for

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Abbreviated @STRING

2009-05-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
If you want to include macros from an external file for the TeX preview the simplest way to achieve that is to edit the tex template file (see the preview preferences). Or you can add the macros to the .bst file that you use. Christiaan On 4 May 2009, at 9:06 PM, M. Tamer Özsu wrote:

Re: [Bibdesk-users] EBSCO changes file structure

2009-05-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
The RIS specs explicitly say that references must start with TY - and end with ER - , see http://www.refman.com/support/risformat_fields_02.asp . Perhaps you can point them to that, it's their bug. Christiaan On 4 May 2009, at 9:09 PM, Cloy Tobola wrote: I'm currently using BibDesk

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Sharing bib managed with Bibdesk with non-bibdesk users

2009-05-05 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 5 May 2009, at 11:01 AM, Luc Bourhis wrote: Hi Adam, thanks for your time. 2) Bibdesk writes trailing white spaces which make my version control system complain every single time: trunk/dox/cctbx_references.bib:5: trailing whitespace. +%% Created for Luc Bourhis at 2009-05-04

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Sharing bib managed with Bibdesk with non-bibdesk users

2009-05-05 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 5 May 2009, at 11:46 AM, Luc Bourhis wrote: On 5 May 2009, at 11:19, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On the contrary, my code version system (git for info) is set up to refuse committing anything with trailing white spaces. Actually, please read on… Why on earth would you want to do

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Sharing bib managed with Bibdesk with non-bibdesk users

2009-05-05 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 5 May 2009, at 6:22 PM, Robert Sloan wrote: I have the same issue with sharing with collaborators, and I can answer the question about why they want a minimal .bib file that they can read in an editor. Some of my collaborators are in the 45-60 age range and have been writing papers in

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Release?

2009-05-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 8 May 2009, at 6:14 PM, Gregory Jefferis wrote: On 2009-05-08 16:23, Adam R. Maxwell amaxw...@mac.com wrote: I'd like to hear some feedback from the PubMed users on the new parser (good, bad, or indifferent). Searching in BD and the DOI lookup should use it, I believe. It's great

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Release?

2009-05-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.comwrote: On 8 May 2009, at 6:14 PM, Gregory Jefferis wrote: On 2009-05-08 16:23, Adam R. Maxwell amaxw...@mac.com wrote: I'd like to hear some feedback from the PubMed users on the new parser (good, bad, or indifferent

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Release?

2009-05-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 8 May 2009, at 6:59 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 05/08/09 09:46, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: I see two journal titles. One is the full title, JT in Medline and Title in XML, and the other is the abbreviated title, TA in Medline and ISOAbbreviation in XML. Apparently

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibDesk website

2009-05-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
There was indeed a missing item in the .htaccess file for a short while, that has been fixed. Christiaan On 16 May 2009, at 4:11 AM, David Nicholls wrote: So can I. But it was definitely not there yesterday. DN Di Xiao wrote: Actually as for now, I can see the sidebar. That's really

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Groups pane issues

2009-05-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 16 May 2009, at 7:01 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On May 15, 2009, at 5:12 PM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: With the latest nightly (Version 1.3.20 (1492)) I am seeing a display/ redrawing issue with the groups pane. When I grab the right edge/ border/divider to resize the pane, the little

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibDesk beta

2009-05-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 16 May 2009, at 4:09 AM, Di Xiao wrote: Hi I downloaded the most recent nightly build (05142009), something doesn't work quite right Thanks for these reports, I'll fix them. 1. Customize toolbar doesn't bring out the sheet Stupid AppKit bug, I've filed a bug report with Apple. 2.

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Search by file content is not working

2009-05-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Thanks, that was a stupid error, just forgot to initialize a variable. Christiaan On 16 May 2009, at 4:05 PM, Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote: Hi Eckhard, Same here :-( The message indexing files appears but nothing happens. As you say, it works fine with 1.3.20 Best, Miguel Le 16 mai

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Failed to generate Tex Preview

2009-05-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
This is a TeX error. There's an undefined command \apjs in your data. You may be using a non-standard bibtex style, and need a corresponding tex style file? Christiaan On 16 May 2009, at 5:16 PM, David Nicholls wrote: From what I read, this is not a new problem. I'm using Bibdesk 1.3.20

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Failed to generate Tex Preview

2009-05-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
this has got somewhat OT, but I'd appreciate assistance from anyone who uses SAO/ADS data successfully. It may also help other neophyte Bibdesk users. Regards DN Christiaan Hofman wrote: This is a TeX error. There's an undefined command \apjs in your data. You may be using a non-standard

Re: [Bibdesk-users] crash (Re: Vote for the next release)

2009-05-17 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Alex Hamann mailingl...@alex-hamann.dewrote: On 17.05.2009, at 12:27, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 17 May 2009, at 1:15 PM, Alex Hamann wrote: On 17.05.2009, at 05:19, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: Hi all The school year is over---meaning I

Re: [Bibdesk-users] crash (Re: Vote for the next release)

2009-05-17 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 17 May 2009, at 5:31 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On May 17, 2009, at 4:53 AM, Alex Hamann wrote: Yep, seems related to the new organization of the column on the left. Going back to other nightlies still led to crashes while last stable release works all right. Did I mention that I am on

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Google Scholar Problem

2009-05-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Have you set the import option to BibTeX in the Google Scholar preferences? Christiaan On 19 May 2009, at 5:03 PM, jediwhelan wrote: Bibdesk is great. But when i found out the possibility of importing references directly from google scholar (whichs lets face it, is always your first

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Google Scholar Problem

2009-05-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
This is a Google Scholar problem, and the nightlies have a workaround for it. Christiaan On 19 May 2009, at 6:26 PM, Daniel Becker wrote: Am 19.05.2009 um 17:41 schrieb James Harrison: I also see this in 1.3.20. GS results appear in the top pane with Import into BibTeX links visible, but

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Bibliography-specific key generation?

2009-05-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 19 May 2009, at 6:01 PM, Nicholas Cole wrote: My apologies if this has been asked before, but I couldn't see a hint of it despite having a suspicion that I had done so myself. Is it or would it be possible to have a bibliography-specific rule for generating keys, so that two different

Re: [Bibdesk-users] pdf, from Safari to Bibdesk

2009-05-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 21 May 2009, at 5:27 PM, Etienne Roesch wrote: Hi there, I often find myself browsing online for relevant articles and, as much as I like the right-click item Open in Skim.app, I was wondering if something similar could be done for BibDesk, ie Create a new bibitem in BibDesk.app?

Re: [Bibdesk-users] pdf, from Safari to Bibdesk

2009-05-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 21 May 2009, at 10:49 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 05/21/09 13:30, Alex Montgomery a...@me.com wrote: On 2009-05-21, at 10:48 AM, Gregory Jefferis wrote: On 2009-05-21 18:33, Alex Hamann mailingl...@alex-hamann.de wrote: I have to say that I would really like to be able to do

Re: [Bibdesk-users] SAO/NASA ADS workflow

2009-05-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 26 May 2009, at 3:38 AM, David Nicholls wrote: Works nicely, though it would be useful for me if the cite key and PDF name were as set in Bibdesk. DN The automator action does generate the cite key according to your personal settings. You can do a similar thing for the PDF, using the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] export endnote xml with applescript?

2009-06-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
plays. Apart from that the biggest problem: someone has to spend time on it... Christiaan Chris Lovell On Jun 8, 2009, at 9:01 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Jun 8, 2009, at 3:26 AM, Chris Lovell wrote: Hi all, Is it possible to use applescript to export endnote xml for a given

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Search on one field, act on another

2009-06-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jun 9, 2009, at 4:46 PM, Nicholas Cole wrote: Dear List, I guess the following problem a job for applescript: I need to fill in the address field for the publishers in my list to cope with the modern fad for putting both the place and name of publishers. (Not so long ago this was

Re: [Bibdesk-users] export endnote xml with applescript?

2009-06-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Replies below. On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.comwrote: On Jun 9, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Chris Lovell wrote: Thanks. I asked if it was possible to do this through AppleScript because I'm trying to write an app that will facilitate communication between BibDesk

Re: [Bibdesk-users] release soon?

2009-06-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
If you're not completely confident you could do a dry run of the DiskImage build steps, so you can test it out before committing the last changes. As for the changes to the procedure, the main difference for you is updating the appcast (bibdesk.xml), but that's not too critical because

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Two questions on templates

2009-06-10 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jun 10, 2009, at 5:56 PM, Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote: Hi, Using the latest nightly build (but I see the same with the latest release 1.3.20) I cannot figure out how to properly add a template in the template preference pane ( as in:

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Search on one field, act on another

2009-06-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jun 14, 2009, at 1:40 PM, Nicholas Cole wrote: On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Christiaan Hofmancmhof...@gmail.com wrote: Well, really the hard part is: how would a script know WHICH address to fill in? Unless you have some very simple situation, you need a human mind for that. The

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Search on one field, act on another

2009-06-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jun 14, 2009, at 1:40 PM, Nicholas Cole wrote: On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Christiaan Hofmancmhof...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] A more general question, perhaps, is could Bibdesk have something like the iTunes interface, where if you select a group of entries you could edit the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] biblatex

2009-06-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jun 19, 2009, at 1:49 PM, Willem Smelik wrote: I understand the latest version has biblatex citation style; but where do I find it? I assume it is a previewtemplate. All the best, Willem This is about copying and dragging. You set this in the Citation preferences. Christiaan

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Feature requests

2009-06-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jun 23, 2009, at 9:25 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 06/23/09 11:48, Sumit Narayan sumna...@gmail.com wrote: Just a couple of feature request I thought I will push in for debate here: 1. When we add a new PDF to BD by drag-and-drop, we get a new window for entering the details. It

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Feature requests

2009-06-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jun 23, 2009, at 10:22 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 06/23/09 13:04, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 23, 2009, at 9:25 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 06/23/09 11:48, Sumit Narayan sumna...@gmail.com wrote: Just a couple of feature request I thought I will push

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibDesk 1.3.21 behind a Proxy Firewall

2009-06-30 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jun 30, 2009, at 9:17 PM, Samuel Gasster wrote: I recently upgraded from BibDesk 1.3.18 to 1.3.21. I use BibDesk behind our corporate firewall that requires a proxy user ID and password to access the internet. BibDesk 1.3.18 had a window that would open where I could enter that

Re: [Bibdesk-users] How to create new BibTeX types and fields

2009-07-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jul 22, 2009, at 12:45 AM, Helly John wrote: Hi. I can't find anything on the archives about this so hope it is not often-asked previously. I'm new to BibDesk but want to use it to create entries for data files. In Preferences Fields you can add new fields and it looks like you can

Re: [Bibdesk-users] biblatex: title + subtitle

2009-07-25 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jul 25, 2009, at 7:57 PM, Alex Hamann wrote: Hi, I am using biblatex and thus frequently have a title consisting of the title field and the subtitle field. My issue here is that the crossref option to automagically have a duplication of the title to the booktitle field does ignore the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] AppleScript: parse format

2009-07-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jul 26, 2009, at 10:59 PM, Jonas Zimmermann wrote: Hi, I jsut wanted to use a snippet from AutogenerateLinkedURLScriptHook for, well, creating a URL from PubMed (see my script below). It seems the 'parse format' verb doesn't work (anymore) as in the sample. (a) even in a 'tell thePub'

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Having difficulties to export merely the currently selected publications via AppleScript (BibDesk Version 1.3.21 (1525))

2009-07-27 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jul 27, 2009, at 5:19 PM, Andreas Fischlin wrote: Dear all, Perhaps someone can help me: I'm trying to export merely the currently selected publications to a xml file from BibDesk (Version 1.3.21 (1525)). I can happily save all publications in the current document with an applescript

Re: [Bibdesk-users] change bibtex preview style

2009-07-27 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jul 28, 2009, at 12:48 AM, MA V wrote: Hi, I would like to change the style that bibdesk uses to preview the entries that I have in my library. If I go to BibDesk preferences and choose Tex Preview the box in front of BibTeX style is greyed out...so I cannot change the style. Please

Re: [Bibdesk-users] change bibtex preview style

2009-07-27 Thread Christiaan Hofman
OK, I see that the field after BibTeX style is not properly enabled when you turn on TeX preview. The solution is to just relaunch BibDesk. Will be fixed in the next nightly. Christiaan On Jul 28, 2009, at 1:32 AM, MA V wrote: Dear Christiaan, please see attached. Thanks, Ana From:

Re: [Bibdesk-users] change bibtex preview style

2009-07-27 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jul 28, 2009, at 1:50 AM, MA V wrote: Dear Christian, Thanks. It did become enabled after I restarted Bibdesk... My next question is then: if I want a given BibTeX style to show up in the box, in which computer folder do I need to place it? Thanks! Ana The popup only shows the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Having difficulties to export merely the currently selected publications via AppleScript (BibDesk Version 1.3.21 (1525))

2009-07-27 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jul 28, 2009, at 1:54 AM, Andreas Fischlin wrote: Dear Christiaan, Thanks for your attempt to help, greatly appreciated. First problem: You can't write 'file aPath' in a script. The file type in AppleScript is very buggy. It generally should be considered read-only. When you want to

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Having difficulties to export merely the currently selected publications via AppleScript (BibDesk Version 1.3.21 (1525))

2009-07-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.comwrote: On Jul 28, 2009, at 1:54 AM, Andreas Fischlin wrote: Dear Christiaan, as POSIX file, ... a POSIX file needs a POSIX style path, not a Mac style path. And it works. In addition you should not send the 'POSIX

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Having difficulties to export merely the currently selected publications via AppleScript (BibDesk Version 1.3.21 (1525))

2009-07-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jul 28, 2009, at 10:00 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 07/28/09 12:40, Andreas Fischlin andreas.fisch...@env.ethz.ch wrote: I believe I considered these things already, but to cut a long story even shorter ( ;-) ), can you write an AppleScript statement with BibDesk's command

Re: [Bibdesk-users] crash

2009-07-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jul 29, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Alex Hamann wrote: Am 29.07.2009 um 13:46 schrieb Christiaan Hofman: On Jul 29, 2009, at 1:32 PM, Alex Hamann wrote: Opened bib file created a new custom bibtex type online (one of the field being Auuthor with the uu typo) added a new item online kept

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Having difficulties to export merely the currently selected publications via AppleScript (BibDesk Version 1.3.21 (1525))

2009-07-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
, ;-) ), all probably the reason why AppleScript confuses me regularly (my experience concur's with Will's). Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Jul 28, 2009, at 10:00 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 07/28/09 12:40, Andreas Fischlin andreas.fisch...@env.ethz.ch wrote: I believe I considered

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibDesk manual as single PDF?

2009-08-03 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 3, 2009, at 3:27 PM, Michael Singer wrote: Is the BibDesk manual available as a single PDF? I was hoping for a single file to mark up in Skim. Thanks, Michael Singer No. Christiaan -- Let Crystal Reports

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