Hi,during the last two days I played around with BibDesk's templates for the first time since quite some time (IIRC correctly the template system was originally a feature request I made), and I came up with several questions. Some of them are probably of general interest, some could turn into bug reports or feature requests later, but I thought that the user list is the best place to post them.
- I think it would be nice if BibDesk remembered the path it stores its templates. I just added a bunch of templates, and every time the file requester would jump to ~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib/ where the .bib file is located which is openend on launh, and every time I have to change to ~/Library/Application support/BibDesk/templates
- @componentsJoinedByComma In my tests this only worked for 'author', but not for 'editor' or any other field which uses 'and' for multiple entries ('address' for example). Is this by design, or a bug or am I doing something wrong. And an additional question: I'd really like to have a @componentsJoinedBySlash function, or mabye even the possibility to choose the separator freely (especially useful for non- english users).
- I'm not really sure what the difference between 'author' and 'persons.author' is. What I found is that 'persons.editor' or 'editors' gives me this strange output: ( {"__self__" = ""; }, {"__self__" = ""; }, {"__self__" = ""; } )
- @stringByConvertingDoubleHyphenToEndash only works on the first double hyphen in an entry. For example, if have a title like 'Things -- other things -- more things' only the first double hyphen is converted. Is this by design or a bug? And is it possible to set this globally? I can't really think of a situation where I don't want double hyphens to be converted, so I'd love to set this for all entries.
- I really like the ability to check if a field corresponds to a certain given value. Is it also possible to see whether a field (like 'author') has several entries? This would be very useful for differentiating betwen 'ed.' and 'eds.'.
- Is it possible to export names as 'first name last name'? It would of course be possible, if they have been entered that way, but this isn't the case (and shouldn't be encouraged). I played around with 'first name' and 'last name', but I really didn't understand how this is supposed to work and whether it works at all with the 'editor' field.
Ok, that's it for now. As always, thanks for your great work. simon -- Simon Spiegel Steinhaldenstr. 50 8002 Zürich Telephon: ++41 44 451 5334 Mobophon: ++41 76 459 60 39 http://www.simifilm.ch "In a world getting more and more democratic, film directing is the last resort for dictators." Francis Ford Coppola
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