On 12 Aug 2007, at 4:40 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote:
> 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
>
Looking at the code, it should start at the last directory used in
the open/save panel, unless you're changing an existing template file.
> - @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).
Thisit is not supposed to work for strings (e.g. field values), but
for arrays. For example "fields.Author" is a string, while
"persons.Author" is an array. Also fields.Address is a field.
> 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).
>
A generic one is impossible as there is no way to pass an argument.
However you can add any separator using the collection tag syntax.
> - 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__" = ""; } )
>
"authors" is just a shortcut to "persons.Author". Also you're not
supposed to use something like editors in a value tag, e.g. <$editors/
> would give weird results such as this, you need to convert it to a
value or use it in a collection tag.
> - @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.
>
This is a bug and will be fixed.
> - 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.'.
>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
template for no authors
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
template for single author
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
template for multiple authors
</[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Compare the abbrvTemplate.rtf sample template from the Wiki, where
the conditional tags are used a lot.
> - 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.
>
firstName and lastName are properties of persons, which you can use
in the value tags using the dot-syntax, you can combine them any way
you like. Remember that "editor" is just a single string, while
"editors" is a collection.
HTH,
Christiaan
> Ok, that's it for now. As always, thanks for your great work.
>
> simon
>
>
>
>
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>
>
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