It's nice to see arXiv support come to BibDesk.
Currently I am still using the script I created with my colleague for
the purpose because it gives better results (available at
http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/arXivToBibDesk.html
- I guess I should add that to the scripts link on the wiki).
It's no problem for me to keep using the script, but I think I'll just
list the differences here in case anybody wonders about what people
consider useful.
. our import has year, comments and MRClass fields
. our import has an abstract (I think I saw that work on 'new' pages
for the arXiv but not for search results
. our import downloads the PDF, places it into the publications folder
and adds it to the Bib
. our import makes sure there are {} around capital letters in paper
titles. The fact that BibDesk doesn't do that makes me wonder whether
anybody actually used the feature so far.
. our import works for single articles (i.e. on article abstract pages
rather than article lists)
The script itself is an ugly combination of perl and AppleScript (i.e.
pest meeting cholera), so I'm not sure it will be helpful for any
BibDesk plans.
From what I am seeing the strings scraped from the arXiv site should
also be trimmed of their whitespace before the BibDesk publication is
created from them. Sometimes leading spaces seem to sneak in for
author and journal names at least. I can add the code for that if you
want.
Best
Sven
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