On Wednesday, August 29, 2007, at 11:20PM, "jiho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 2007-August-29 , at 20:15 , Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>> On Wednesday, August 29, 2007, at 10:37AM, "Chris Goedde"
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> On Aug 29, 2007, at 12:28 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>>>> There would be no main file field, and you wouldn't set a field
>>>> name/type for files in prefs. Fields would be added dynamically as
>>>> needed. So you drop two files on the view, and one is assigned to
>>>> Bdsk-File-1, and the other is Bdsk-File-2 in the BibTeX file. All
>>>> you see is the file's name, and its icon. This assumes you're not
>>>> already using that naming scheme for something else :). Same idea
>>>> goes for adding files via AS.
>>>
>>> Now I'm a bit confused. Are you saying that BibDesk would not rename
>>> and relocate the pdf file? That seems like a step backward.
>>
>> Autofile would work as it does presently, except it would be
>> applied to all files associated with an item, not just Local-Url.
>> So you drop a file on the view, and if there's enough info, it's
>> autofiled immediately. If not, we could badge it with a caution
>> icon or something.
>
>What about the naming convention? I really like the fact that all my
>PDFs are named by Author+year+title. This allows me to find pdfs via
>spotlight/finder easily without having to run bibdesk everytime.
>Could this system autofile several files and gives them a name such as:
>author-year-title-1.pdf
>author-year-title-2.html
>author-year-title-3.jpg
>etc...
>instead of Bdsk-file-1.pdf, Bdsk-file-2.html etc. ? It would be
>really useful this way. Otherwise I think I would (personally) keep
>using the old Local-Url system.
It seems that many people are missing the point, so I'm likely not explaining
this effectively. You'd have a BibTeX entry like so:
@article{citekey,
title={Something},
author={Some One},
year={2006},
bdsk-file-1={somelongstringofasciilettersthattranslatesintoanaliaswhenopeningthefileinbibdesk},
bdsk-file-2={anotherlongstringofasciilettersthattranslateseintoanaliswhenopeningthefileinbibdesk}
}
but in the Finder and BibDesk the file names show up as
"SomeOne-2006-Something-a.pdf"
"SomeOne-2006-Something-b.rtf"
"SomeOne-2006-Something-c.png"
and the file is located in your papers directory according to your autofile
scheme. You can then rename the file in Finder and/or move it to a different
directory without hand-editing a field in BibDesk, and BibDesk will still be
able to find it. You will /not/ be able to open the BibTeX file in TextEdit
and manually change the bdsk-file-1 field, because it's not human-readable.
--
Adam
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