Re: [Bibdesk-users] WOS SCI searches hang the 2nd time - BibDesk Version 1.3.21 (1525)

2009-08-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 8, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Andreas Fischlin wrote: Thanks Adam for the answers. Here my replies: Adam R. Maxwell wrote: [snip] This is a generic error message when anything other than a network failure occurs. Use Activity Monitor to take a sample while it's trying to connect, and

Re: [Bibdesk-users] WOS SCI searches hang the 2nd time - BibDesk Version 1.3.21 (1525)

2009-08-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 8, 2009, at 1:24 PM, Andreas Fischlin wrote: Thanks Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Aug 8, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Andreas Fischlin wrote: Thanks Adam for the answers. Here my replies: Adam R. Maxwell wrote: [snip] This is a generic error message when anything other than a network

Re: [Bibdesk-users] htlatex and biblatex again

2009-08-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 9, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Andrew Heiss wrote: I found that solution during my initial search, but it doesn't work. LaTeX can't handle it--it stops and gives the error LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}., since the fix tags don't work right. Is there a typo in either of those lines?

Re: [Bibdesk-users] meta tags

2009-08-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 11, 2009, at 3:52 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Aug 10, 2009, at 6:23 PM, M. Tamer Özsu wrote: Thanks. That is a pity since meta-tags are becoming increasingly popular and it would have been nice to be able to use them. What meta tags are you speaking of? The OpenMeta stuff?

Re: [Bibdesk-users] meta tags

2009-08-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 11, 2009, at 12:50 PM, M. Tamer Özsu wrote: On Aug 10, 2009, at 6:23 PM, M. Tamer Özsu wrote: Thanks. That is a pity since meta-tags are becoming increasingly popular and it would have been nice to be able to use them. What meta tags are you speaking of? The OpenMeta stuff?

Re: [Bibdesk-users] meta tags

2009-08-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 11, 2009, at 11:59 PM, M. Tamer Özsu wrote: On Tue 11-Aug-09, at 7:19 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Aug 11, 2009, at 12:50 PM, M. Tamer Özsu wrote: On Aug 10, 2009, at 6:23 PM, M. Tamer Özsu wrote: Thanks. That is a pity since meta-tags are becoming increasingly popular

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Release time?

2009-08-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 20, 2009, at 0:03, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: Hi everyone, Start testing nightlies, because it's almost time for a new release. Christiaan, are there any show-stopping bugs or work-in-progress that I should hold off for? Adam Nothing in the works, I'll update the release notes

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Release time?

2009-08-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
I'm not sure if that will be possible, as the French localization has not been updated yet. Christiaan On Aug 20, 2009, at 1:29, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: Good, I will aim for this weekend. Adam On Aug 19, 2009, at 7:05 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Aug 20, 2009, at 0:03, Adam M

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Release time?

2009-08-20 Thread Christiaan Hofman
the slash even with the strict cleaning options, so that's what I just did for the next nightly. Christiaan On 2009-08-20, at 12:03 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: Actually, these are not (serious) bugs, but rather bug fixes ;-) At most, the sample script seems not to have followed those fixes

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Fwd: Quicklook oddity

2009-08-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 21, 2009, at 3:10, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: I am using a recent nightly: 1.3.21 (1586). When I use Quicklook to preview a PDF, the Quicklook window with the preview is always the minimum size, about an inch across on the screen. Adam -- Adam M. Goldstein PhD,

Re: [Bibdesk-users] using both bibtex/latex and Pages with BibDesk

2009-08-25 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 25, 2009, at 15:00, Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote: Hi all, This may have been asked before, but I have failed to find an answer. If it was asked, I would appreciate a pointer so I can read about it. So this is the problem: I write some documents using latex/bibtex and some others

Re: [Bibdesk-users] bibdesk startup time and file launch time

2009-08-25 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 25, 2009, at 22:34, Alex Hamann wrote: A question out of pure curiosity: I am trying to optimize my system. I have recently switched to a MBP 13'' with 4 BG RAM and expect it to outshine my old iBook running Tiger in every way. However, I noticed that BibDesk still takes quite long

Re: [Bibdesk-users] using both bibtex/latex and Pages with BibDesk

2009-08-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 26, 2009, at 9:35, Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote: Le 25 août 09 à 22:08, Christiaan Hofman a écrit : On Aug 25, 2009, at 15:00, Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote: Hi all, This may have been asked before, but I have failed to find an answer. If it was asked, I would appreciate

Re: [Bibdesk-users] bibdesk startup time and file launch time

2009-08-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 26, 2009, at 10:41, Alex Hamann wrote: Am 26.08.2009 um 00:46 schrieb Maxwell, Adam R: On 08/25/09 13:54, Alex Hamann mailingl...@alex-hamann.de wrote: Especially when you've stored them (or your database) on a separate volume it may be more dependent on the mount type and your

Re: [Bibdesk-users] bibdesk startup time and file launch time

2009-08-27 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 27, 2009, at 20:49, James Harrison wrote: On Aug 27, 2009, at 2:35 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: except by possibly reading Skim notes in the background If this wouldn't be too difficult or problematic, I'd be interested in having the notes read in the background in a way that allows

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Release time

2009-08-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
, but haven't looked for problems in detail. On 08/28/09 11:20, Adam M. Goldstein a.m.goldst...@mac.com wrote: OK, good. I have been using the nightlies with no problems. I plan on getting Snow Leopard soon, so I will try it when I get it working. Adam On Aug 28, 2009, at 8:07 AM, Christiaan

Re: [Bibdesk-users] German Users

2009-08-31 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 31, 2009, at 11:14, Rolf Schmolling wrote: Hi, though personally I have no use for a localized version (my system is in German though), nevertheless I wonder if some users would feel it simpler to switch to the use of LaTeX and BibTeX if there is a german version of Bibdesk around.

Re: [Bibdesk-users] German Users

2009-08-31 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 31, 2009, at 17:09, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Aug 31, 2009, at 2:36 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Aug 31, 2009, at 11:14, Rolf Schmolling wrote: Hi, though personally I have no use for a localized version (my system is in German though), nevertheless I wonder if some users

Re: [Bibdesk-users] German Users

2009-08-31 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 31, 2009, at 18:06, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 08/31/09 08:53, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: Tiger and Leopard let you do this from Finder's Get Info panel. In Snow Leopard, I understand that it's set from System Preferences for all applications: http

Re: [Bibdesk-users] bibdesk startup time and file launch time

2009-09-01 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 27, 2009, at 21:10, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Aug 27, 2009, at 20:49, James Harrison wrote: On Aug 27, 2009, at 2:35 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: except by possibly reading Skim notes in the background If this wouldn't be too difficult or problematic, I'd be interested

Re: [Bibdesk-users] bibdesk startup time and file launch time

2009-09-01 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 1, 2009, at 16:56, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Sep 1, 2009, at 7:41 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: it won't be used for the next release, that's too close. How close? I fixed a deadlock in the web icon last night and haven't had a chance to try and merge it yet. About whenever

Re: [Bibdesk-users] bibdesk startup time and file launch time

2009-09-01 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 1, 2009, at 19:09, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 09/01/09 08:51, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 1, 2009, at 16:56, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Sep 1, 2009, at 7:41 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: it won't be used for the next release, that's too close. How close? I

Re: [Bibdesk-users] bibdesk startup time and file launch time

2009-09-01 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 1, 2009, at 20:51, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 09/01/09 10:11, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: I'd say add it. Done. BTW, do you have to remove Skim notes from the any field index? I was messing with a test implementation using NSOperationQueue, and didn't see

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Superfluous Show AppleScript menu commands in AppleScript menu (BibDesk Version 1.3.21)

2009-09-05 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 5, 2009, at 20:54, Andreas Fischlin wrote: Hi all, Strange commands such as Show Fix PDF and URL Links menu commands appear in my AppleScript menu of BibDesk, only because I have some script named Fix PDF and URL Links.scpt installed (in $HOME/ Library/Application

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Templates: What kind of postprocessing is possible? Shell or AppleScripts?

2009-09-07 Thread Christiaan Hofman
It's rather long. Christiaan On Sep 7, 2009, at 15:00, Andreas Fischlin wrote: Then it might be useful to call this 'Postprocess shell script' instead of merely 'Postprocess Script' (for the next nightly?) Andreas Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Sep 7, 2009, at 12:24, Andreas Fischlin wrote

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Templates: What kind of postprocessing is possible? Shell or AppleScripts?

2009-09-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
in a software project is nothing worth than someone not knowing what he/she is doing. Andreas The Wiki has a description on how to fetch the source from SVN. If you open it in Xcode, the file is bibtex.texi in the Help Sources group. Christiaan Christiaan Hofman wrote: Sure, but it's

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Linked files and case-sensitive file systems

2009-09-17 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 17, 2009, at 20:47, Mukund Rangamani wrote: Hello, I have a curious problem with Bibdesk 1.3.21 on OSX 10.6.1. I have a single bib file which I use for my papers collection and this is synchronized between my desktop at work and my laptop via unison. In the last couple of days

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Linked files and case-sensitive file systems

2009-09-17 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 17, 2009, at 23:31, Mukund Rangamani wrote: Hello Christiaan, Thanks for the explanation. I understand how the file links work a bit better now and hopefully have an idea of how to implement the changes. I will let you know how things go, but this might not be for a while. What do

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Linked files and case-sensitive file systems

2009-09-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 18, 2009, at 21:47, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 09/18/09 10:49, Andreas Fischlin andreas.fisch...@env.ethz.ch wrote: 3) The only difficulty I have not been able to overcome in an elegant manners is the attempt by BibDesk on my MacBook Air to access the other big machine during

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Release time

2009-09-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 19, 2009, at 17:33, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Sep 19, 2009, at 7:44 AM, Andreas Fischlin wrote: The only thing open from my end of things is the improvent on the help in terms of explaining nature of post processing scripts. I have made the change, but do not know how to commit.

Re: [Bibdesk-users] maillist

2009-09-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 21, 2009, at 12:00, Willem Smelik wrote: Hi, I have been trying in vain to unsubscribe from this email list; using the address where I receive all emails, I do not get a confirmation email. How can I unsubscribe if it doesn't work via the website - or am I overlooking something?

Re: [Bibdesk-users] merging two bibdesk files

2009-09-24 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 24, 2009, at 10:45, Carlos Hernandez wrote: Dear All, I have two BibTex files (.bib) and in one of them I updated some items (publications) while in the other I updated different items (publications). That is, the same publication may be updated in one file while not in the

[Bibdesk-users] Tiger support dropped for nightly builds

2009-09-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
A note for the few Tiger users still remaining: the nightly builds will from now on only support Mac OSX 10.5 and later. Christiaan -- Come build with us! The BlackBerryreg; Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Reversing the linked files to local file script

2009-10-06 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Oct 6, 2009, at 19:02, John Stavrakakis wrote: Hi everyone, I am migrating to a new hard disk and I have found the quite useful script to convert linked files to local file urls. But is there a script to reverse the process for my new disk? or at least some advice on how to get a

Re: [Bibdesk-users] oversized preview icons

2009-10-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Oct 14, 2009, at 16:12, A wrote: Hi all, First, as I didn't write to the mailing list for a long time, I want to congratulate the developers for their work: BibDesk is progressing very nicely. I just have a small question, and I didn't find any answer either that in the list. Since

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Release?

2009-11-10 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Not yet. The localization has not been updated yet, and I'm not sure if there still needs to be some tweaking of the UI. Christiaan On Nov 9, 2009, at 1:40, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: Hi all The mailing lists have been pretty quiet---maybe start using the nightlies for a week or so to see

[Bibdesk-users] Nightly build testing

2009-11-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
We're ready to test for the next release. If everything worked out also the French localization can be tested. The release notes are updated with (most of) the latest changes. Christiaan -- Let Crystal Reports handle

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Nightly build testing

2009-11-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
, there was absolutely nothing changed related to this. Christiaan On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: We're ready to test for the next release. If everything worked out also the French localization can be tested. The release notes are updated with (most

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Nightly build testing

2009-11-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Nov 15, 2009, at 11:33, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Nov 15, 2009, at 3:28, Di Xiao wrote: Christiaan, In the currently released version, when editing the keyword information, it used to be that after typing the first several letters, the keyword will be auto-completed

Re: [Bibdesk-users] A Few Questions

2009-11-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Nov 23, 2009, at 4:21, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Nov 22, 2009, at 6:52 PM, Nick Illich wrote: One thing I liked about Mendeley, though, was that when I drag one of my PDFs to the program, it gives me a button that allows me to automatically try to retrieve information based on

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Bulk import from PubMed

2009-11-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Nov 23, 2009, at 14:21, Robert Sekuler wrote: A single PubMed search from BibDesk can return many items that I'd like to import. Does BibDesk support importing multiple items at once? if so, I can't figure out how, and now have to import them one at a time. Robert Sekuler

Re: [Bibdesk-users] A Few Questions

2009-11-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 23, 2009, at 11:47, Nick Illich wrote: Thanks for all the info Adam and Christiaan! I really appreciate it. About group fields, I went to View-Group Field-Add Field and tried to type in Series, but it gave me

Re: [Bibdesk-users] changing keywords for entries accross whole database/bibfile

2009-11-25 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Nov 25, 2009, at 20:48, Rolf Schmolling wrote: Hi knowledgeable Ones, for a number of reasons I'd like to change ALL my keywords for entries from uppercase to lowercase… Is there a simple (and safe way) to do this? I have tried to use services but working on all of my many entries is

Re: [Bibdesk-users] apsrev?

2009-12-03 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Dec 3, 2009, at 8:15, david craig wrote: I believe I have diagnosed the problem. On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, Christiaan Hofman wrote: Since installing TeXLive 2009, apsrev has disappeared from the list of BiBDesk's BiBTeX styles in the TeX-Typset Preview preference. I'm not sure

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Dublin Core

2009-12-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Dec 12, 2009, at 10:07, Stephan Kurz wrote: Dear BibDesk-users, after searching the Wiki, the BibDesk help and the mailing list archives (which unfortunately did not bring any solution to my problem, although JiHO had a similar problem back in 2007) I am coming up with a question

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibDesk 1.4 released

2009-12-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Dec 12, 2009, at 0:47, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: Greetings all The BibDesk development team is pleased to announce that BibDesk 1.4 has now been released. You can download the new version from within BibDesk itself using BibDesk Check for updates; and if you start an older version of

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibDesk 1.4 released

2009-12-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Dec 12, 2009, at 14:57, Fischlin Andreas wrote: Dear Christian, defaults delete -app BibDesk BDSKIsRelaunch If I try to execute this command I get afischli$ defaults delete -app BibDesk BDSKIsRelaunch 2009-12-12 14:50:23.479 defaults[8732:10b] Couldn't find an application named

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Dublin Core

2009-12-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Dec 12, 2009, at 17:14, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Dec 12, 2009, at 3:14 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Dec 12, 2009, at 10:07, Stephan Kurz wrote: Could someone send me a proper DC XML file which BibDesk successfully imports? (the longer version below has an example XML file which

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Applescript question

2009-12-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Dec 14, 2009, at 15:53, Jan Erik Moström wrote: A quick question, a snippet like this tell application BibDesk set cp to publication of window 1 tell cp set r_auth to value of field Author end tell end tell used to work just fine, now when I try with 1.4 I get

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Issue when canceling a new entry

2009-12-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Dec 14, 2009, at 18:44, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 12/14/09 09:25, Louis-Jean Teitelbaum l...@meidosem.com wrote: Hi, Le 14 déc. 2009 à 17:54, Maxwell, Adam R a écrit : so I close the window. I get a fall-down curtain window saying - The cite key for this entry has not been

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Issue when canceling a new entry

2009-12-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
in my life. How about Edit and Close? Thanks for considering this feedback. -Jeremy Makes sense to me. Christiaan On Dec 14, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Dec 14, 2009, at 18:44, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 12/14/09 09:25, Louis-Jean Teitelbaum l

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Issue when canceling a new entry

2009-12-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Dec 14, 2009, at 23:16, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 12/14/09 13:58, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 14, 2009, at 22:27, Jeremy Glick wrote: I'd like to say that, while I understand the intended behavior and the reasoning behind it *now*, when I was a new user

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Small unimportant UI detail: default button

2009-12-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Dec 16, 2009, at 12:39, Jan Erik Moström wrote: On 09-12-16 at 12:15, cmhof...@gmail.com (Christiaan Hofman) wrote: No, because then the default button is called when all you want to do is commit an edit. Moreover, doing that that would lead to a crash. Ah, it's been a long time

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Pubmed import in 1.4

2009-12-20 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Dec 20, 2009, at 14:15, Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote: Hi everyone, I wonder if something has changed in BibDesk 1.4 (or in PubMed, in which case, of course you need not to know) with respect to the import of publications found after a PubMed Search (within BibDesk). It seems that a

Re: [Bibdesk-users] 'Read' info lost in latest nightly build

2009-12-22 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Dec 22, 2009, at 23:38, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Dec 22, 2009, at 2:23 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: Were you using the French localization by any chance? Then this may happen, because the French localization is disabled in the nightlies, while the boolean and 3-value fields

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Preview and apacite

2010-01-03 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jan 3, 2010, at 4:18, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jan 2, 2010, at 7:04 PM, M. Tamer Özsu wrote: Adam, I think the one mistake I was doing was not tabbing out of that field. I just ran another experiment: changed the style to abbr again (and checked to make sure that it was choosing

Re: [Bibdesk-users] y or e in spanish Author lists

2010-01-06 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jan 6, 2010, at 9:13, Gilberto wrote: In Spanish, and translates as y, but when preceding a word beginning with I, it's e. Does anyone know if there's a way to make BibTeX to automatically use the right one? Freeman and Zavala (1992) would be Freeman y Zavala (1992) But Freeman

Re: [Bibdesk-users] y or e in spanish Author lists

2010-01-06 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jan 6, 2010, at 11:43, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: On Jan 6, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Jan 6, 2010, at 9:13, Gilberto wrote: In Spanish, and translates as y, but when preceding a word beginning with I, it's e. Does anyone know if there's a way to make BibTeX

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Global Macros quirk

2010-01-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jan 8, 2010, at 5:28, david craig wrote: Slight quirk: When you enter global macros directly into BibDesk preferences, they show up immediately in a bib file's Database-Macros window. When you load global macros from a file, they don't show up unless you tick Show all. Is this

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Group export

2010-01-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jan 8, 2010, at 7:51, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jan 7, 2010, at 9:43 PM, david craig wrote: you just need to stop abusing the global macro feature :). The entire point of it is to display macros that you do not want included in your database. More to the point, from the point

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Bibliographic Database

2010-01-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jan 8, 2010, at 0:59, david craig wrote: On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, david craig wrote: The obvious thing would seem to be to create, say, a static group for each paper. The next thing would be to save just this group as a single bib file that would include just the references in the group,

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Bibliographic Database

2010-01-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jan 8, 2010, at 12:20, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Jan 8, 2010, at 0:59, david craig wrote: On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, david craig wrote: The obvious thing would seem to be to create, say, a static group for each paper. The next thing would be to save just this group as a single bib

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Bibliographic Database

2010-01-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jan 8, 2010, at 13:20, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Jan 8, 2010, at 12:20, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Jan 8, 2010, at 0:59, david craig wrote: On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, david craig wrote: The obvious thing would seem to be to create, say, a static group for each paper. The next

Re: [Bibdesk-users] pdf importing and filing question

2010-01-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jan 12, 2010, at 1:51, Josef Trapani wrote: Greetings, I am currently managing my PDF files by auto filing them in a specific folder and naming them by the associated reference's Pmid (Pubmed ID). In order to fulfill the Auto File Local File Format rules my format string is:

Re: [Bibdesk-users] linking files

2010-01-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jan 16, 2010, at 12:23, Daniele Pontillo wrote: Hello! I have a serious problem. My pdfs are in a folder named /Users/dan/Documents/Papers/Authorname/yearandextension I really can't figure out why I suddenly experienced a loss of link between my records and the files themselves. When

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Abbreviated Author Punctuation

2010-01-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jan 16, 2010, at 19:39, Josef Trapani wrote: Greetings, I was wondering if there is a way to remove the punctuation from the author field when it is formatted with the Author key: abbreviatedNormalizedName I would a template file for a bibliography with the authors listed without

Re: [Bibdesk-users] linking files

2010-01-17 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jan 17, 2010, at 18:31, Fischlin Andreas wrote: Thanks for the hints Christiaan, An empty selection could also be an empty list (I think that should be the case, so that will be true in future versions). Ok Why are you moving linked files to linked URLs, instead of to linked

Re: [Bibdesk-users] linking files

2010-01-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jan 18, 2010, at 16:50, Daniele Pontillo wrote:I really appreciate everybody's cooperationIn consideration that my pdf are archived in a /Papers/Authorname/ folder, could you please furnish a user-friendly script in order for me to accomplish my task?Thanks Daniele PontilloVice-Director,

Re: [Bibdesk-users] bibtex style

2010-01-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jan 21, 2010, at 18:45, Daniele Pontillo wrote: Absolutely. Now, I cannot obtain the correct output in the bibdesk preview: I am not using the standard bibdesk styles but i chose my file vancouver.bst (which I never modified in any manner). This happend with regular releases and with

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Export PDFs

2010-01-24 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jan 24, 2010, at 8:20, Ken Mankoff wrote: Hi BibDesk Users List, I'd like to be able to select a few PDFs, or an entire group, and be able to move them all (to a new folder, onto a Kindle, etc.). I don't see a way to export the PDFs. I see a Reveal in File option but can only

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Export PDFs

2010-01-24 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.comwrote: On Jan 24, 2010, at 8:20, Ken Mankoff wrote: Hi BibDesk Users List, I'd like to be able to select a few PDFs, or an entire group, and be able to move them all (to a new folder, onto a Kindle, etc.). I don't

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibDesk, CiteInPages Chicago Style template

2010-01-25 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jan 25, 2010, at 4:39, James Harrison wrote: On Jan 24, 2010, at 5:04 PM, Ashley Zung wrote: Hello. I am looking for a Chicago Style template to use with CiteInPages and BibDesk. The link to the Chicago Reference List template at the wiki BibDesk page is not working. Chicago

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Optimal use of the .bib database

2010-01-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jan 26, 2010, at 10:50, Daniele Avitabile wrote: Hi all, I would like to know what is your favourite way of using the the .bib database produced by BibDesk. At the moment, I have a large folder containing one large database.bib file and the corresponding archived pdf. When I am

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Bug or design

2010-01-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jan 26, 2010, at 11:21, Jan Erik Moström wrote: Here is something I find a bit confusing, I don't know if it's a bug or if it's an unexpected (to me) behavior. + I open the detail view for a reference, call it A + Then I go back and select another a reference B in the reference list

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Optimal use of the .bib database

2010-01-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jan 26, 2010, at 21:44, James Howison wrote: On Jan 26, 2010, at 09:40, Fischlin Andreas wrote: Dear Daniele, You might no longer be interested in much input, but your question what's our workflow may nevertheless be of some interest. We use a centralized big FileMaker data base

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibDesk for iPad?

2010-01-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jan 28, 2010, at 9:53, Simon Spiegel wrote: On 28.01.2010, at 04:48, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jan 27, 2010, at 7:09 PM, M. Tamer Özsu wrote: This is an interesting discussion. For me the most critical requirement is to have an annotation application that uses ink. I need to be

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibDesk for iPad?

2010-01-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jan 28, 2010, at 11:43, Simon Spiegel wrote: On 28.01.2010, at 11:34, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Jan 28, 2010, at 9:53, Simon Spiegel wrote: This is an interesting discussion. For me the most critical requirement is to have an annotation application that uses ink. I need

Re: [Bibdesk-users] APA Style templates

2010-02-03 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Feb 3, 2010, at 10:51, Giorgio Arcara wrote: Hello, I need (I think it's a pretty common problem) to insert my citations in APA style. The templates I found on Wiki works well, but every time I insert a citation, all authors are listed (according to APA style, if authors are

Re: [Bibdesk-users] APA Style templates

2010-02-03 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.comwrote: On Feb 3, 2010, at 10:51, Giorgio Arcara wrote: Hello, I need (I think it's a pretty common problem) to insert my citations in APA style. The templates I found on Wiki works well, but every time I insert

Re: [Bibdesk-users] New release....

2010-02-06 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Feb 6, 2010, at 22:46, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: Andreas wrote to the list saying that a new release is pretty well-warranted. Christiaan, is there anything I should wait on before putting the release together? Yes, the French localization. Christiaan Andreas---The bug in

Re: [Bibdesk-users] New release....

2010-02-07 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Can it be that you have a corrupt pref file? Have you tried moving ~/Library/Preferences/edu.ucsd.cs.mmccrack.bibdesk.plist? Did you ever override BDSKGroupFieldsSeparatorCharactersKey? Christiaan On Feb 7, 2010, at 10:40, Alex Hamann wrote: On 07.02.2010, at 00:05, Christiaan Hofman

Re: [Bibdesk-users] New release....

2010-02-07 Thread Christiaan Hofman
, Christiaan Hofman wrote: Can it be that you have a corrupt pref file? Have you tried moving ~/Library/Preferences/edu.ucsd.cs.mmccrack.bibdesk.plist? Did you ever override BDSKGroupFieldsSeparatorCharactersKey? Christiaan On Feb 7, 2010, at 10:40, Alex Hamann wrote: On 07.02.2010, at 00

Re: [Bibdesk-users] New release....

2010-02-07 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Feb 7, 2010, at 13:39, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Feb 7, 2010, at 13:12, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Feb 7, 2010, at 12:52, Alex Hamann wrote: I did the following now: - delete all bibdesk-related files in ~/Library that includes ~/Library/Preferences

Re: [Bibdesk-users] New release....

2010-02-07 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Feb 7, 2010, at 13:12, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Feb 7, 2010, at 12:52, Alex Hamann wrote: I did the following now: - delete all bibdesk-related files in ~/Library that includes ~/Library/Preferences/edu.ucsd.cs.mmccrack.bibdesk.plist? - delete Bibdesk - run all

Re: [Bibdesk-users] AppleScript: How best to learn about all static groups a publication belongs to

2010-02-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Feb 9, 2010, at 10:58, Fischlin Andreas wrote: Dear all, I frequently reimport records into my bib files and wish to update records by replacing existing ones with new versions. All works fine with BD and my set of AppleScripts except that any belonging to static groups gets lost when

Re: [Bibdesk-users] AppleScript: How best to learn about all static groups a publication belongs to

2010-02-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Feb 9, 2010, at 15:36, Fischlin Andreas wrote: On 09/Feb/2010, at 11:53 , Christiaan Hofman wrote: You can use AppleScript's conditional expressions, as in: static groups whose publications contain thePub Many thanks Christiaan. Once again, this did it and all works like

Re: [Bibdesk-users] AppleScript: How best to learn about all static groups a publication belongs to

2010-02-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Feb 9, 2010, at 16:32, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Feb 9, 2010, at 15:36, Fischlin Andreas wrote: On 09/Feb/2010, at 11:53 , Christiaan Hofman wrote: You can use AppleScript's conditional expressions, as in: static groups whose publications contain thePub Many thanks

Re: [Bibdesk-users] AppleScript: How best to learn about all static groups a publication belongs to

2010-02-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Feb 9, 2010, at 17:57, Fischlin Andreas wrote: On 09/Feb/2010, at 17:09 , Christiaan Hofman wrote: tell document 1 of application BibDesk set theKeys to {} set theDuplicateKeys to {} set theDuplicates to {} repeat with thePub in publications set theKey to cite key of thePub

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Labels for custom type's fields

2010-02-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Feb 9, 2010, at 20:12, Chris Esther wrote: Hello all I'm using BibDesk in tandem with Lyx and a custom biblatex style, in a legal context. I have had to best fit some of my natural fields into the limited biblatex/bibtex fields available. e.g. biblatext/bibtex field 'location' is

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Release, revisited

2010-02-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Feb 10, 2010, at 0:16, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: Hi all So, it looks like we are waiting on the French localization at this point? The nightlies seem to be working well now. Adam I just added the French localization, it should be active in the next nightly build. So please test

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Importing references from modified proxy URLs

2010-02-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Feb 13, 2010, at 18:57, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Feb 13, 2010, at 9:16 AM, Andrew Berry wrote: My university library offers a proxy service to connect to various sites. It works by modifying a URL so that: http://scholar.google.ca/?q=... becomes

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Release, revisited

2010-02-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Feb 15, 2010, at 17:09, Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote: Le 15 févr. 2010 à 16:29, Adam R. Maxwell a écrit : On Feb 15, 2010, at 4:07 AM, Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote: [ Having said that, since I installed Snow Leopard, I no longer have the services provided by BibDesk (cite key

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Create links to my PDF files?

2010-02-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Feb 18, 2010, at 10:53, Matthias Brennwald wrote: Dear all I am a BibDesk newbie, so please be patient... I have a BibTex library (*.bib file), which I edited using a plain text editor until now. The cite keys are in the form p, where is a number (e.g. p4219). For many of

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Create links to my PDF files?

2010-02-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Feb 18, 2010, at 11:14, Fischlin Andreas wrote: Dear Matthias, Write me privately, if you like, and I can give you AppleScripts doing this. You might need to adapt them though to your situation, but at least you wouldn't have to start from scratch. I plan to offer my stuff, in the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Manage Anthologies

2010-02-24 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Feb 24, 2010, at 12:58, shamona wrote: Hello. I need to take texts in anthologies and the anthology itself into my bibdesk database. Of course I can do both, but is there a good way to link them (so each single text entry refers to the anthology entry and the anthology entry enlists all

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Reference type - URL, MIS, Web Page

2010-02-25 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Feb 25, 2010, at 14:10, Rasika Dayarathna wrote: Hello, I have been using BibDesk for sometime. I faced a big problem when I started referencing URLs. Could anyone please tell what the differences are between reference types of URL, mis, Web page, and electronic. and What is the

[Bibdesk-users] Extended search group labels

2010-03-02 Thread Christiaan Hofman
I'd like some input from the users about an idea of using a double line label for search groups, with the server name at the top and the search term at the bottom. Something like the attached screenshot. I think that's more useful than displaying just the search term, which we do now. The

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Extended search group labels

2010-03-02 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Mar 2, 2010, at 23:38, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: On Mar 2, 2010, at 5:07 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: I'd like some input from the users about an idea of using a double line label for search groups, with the server name at the top and the search term at the bottom. Something like

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Extended search group labels

2010-03-02 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Mar 3, 2010, at 1:29, Jason Davies wrote: On 2 Mar 2010, at 23:24, Christiaan Hofman wrote: Didn't the attached image make it through? The idea is that the server name is always shown, and the search term is shown in a smaller font in a line below that, being either empty

Re: [Bibdesk-users] autofile script hook

2010-03-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Mar 4, 2010, at 19:26, Daniel Becker wrote: Hallo, I would like to trigger an autofile-operation everytime the cite key of an entry has changed (since my autofile-format is /downloads/%f{Cite Key}%u0%e). Or, alternatively, I would like that every save document action triggers an

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