Dear Ken,
On 25/01/2014, at 03:11 , Ken Mankoff wrote:
Ok, it seems there is no mechanism to parse the raw BibTeX record (it is
read-only in BibDesk AppleScript).
Of course not. You can fully read and write BibDesk records using AppleScripts.
It is however, not fully clear what you mean by
Sorry, I had a mistake in the AppleScript: Please replace tell aPub with
tell thePub.
Regards,
Andreas
What seems to be missing is a loop over all records in current selection,
which may look similar to following
set thePubs to selection
if (count of thePubs) 0 then
repeat with
On Jan 25, 2014, at 3:11, Ken Mankoff wrote:
Ok, it seems there is no mechanism to parse the raw BibTeX record (it is
read-only in BibDesk AppleScript).
I guess a simple work-around is to import an entirely new record using the
pdfmeat.py output, link the old file (the file link being
Hi Christiaan and other AppleScript experts,
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 5:13 AM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.comwrote:
On Jan 25, 2014, at 3:11, Ken Mankoff wrote:
It is probably easier to copy the fields from the (temporary) new item you
get from pdfmeat to the old item. If they're
Ok all done! Thanks for those who supplied some tips. With this AppleScript
and a working pdfmeat.py (test it from the command line), I can drag a PDF
into BibDesk, select it, and populate it with all of the data from Google
Scholar.
-k.
*property* useFileURL : *true*
-- use relative or
Sounds like it would be a great improvement if it comes with the standard
Bibdesk in the future.
Great
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Ken Mankoff mank...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok all done! Thanks for those who supplied some tips. With this
AppleScript and a working pdfmeat.py (test it from the
On Jan 25, 2014, at 15:59, Ken Mankoff wrote:
Ok all done! Thanks for those who supplied some tips. With this AppleScript
and a working pdfmeat.py (test it from the command line), I can drag a PDF
into BibDesk, select it, and populate it with all of the data from Google
Scholar.
-k.
Great work! I've been watching this development with much interest, and I
really hope this feature is rolled into BibDesk soon.
Autofill is the feature I miss most from Papers. It is the one thing that
slows me down compared to Papers. So, this is awesome!
Thanks to everyone who worked on
So I've put the code here: https://github.com/mankoff/BibDeskAppleScripts
Unfortunately it is a binary blob so merging changes isn't easy. I have it
so I can edit AppleScript in emacs as plain ASCII, so I guess a hook like
that could be built into git, but...
Anyway, there is a lot more I plan
OK, perhaps the last post for now on this project
https://github.com/mankoff/BibDeskAppleScripts
It seems like it would be quite easy to get full PDF download from any site
plus any metadata provided by either Google Scholar or the publisher. The
key is to use 3rd party tools.
pdfmeat.py does an
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