On 30 Aug 2007, at 5:10 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:

>
> On Aug 30, 2007, at 02:43, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
>>
>> On 30 Aug 2007, at 8:56 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, August 29, 2007, at 11:43PM, "jiho"
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 2007-August-30  , at 08:33 , Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>>>>> 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"
>>>>
>>>> OK, I get it. My question was then: would it still be possible to
>>>> generate those names automatically? I am wondering since you said:
>>>>    "and you wouldn't set a field name/type for files in prefs"
>>>
>>> The "field name" is "bdsk-file-1" etc. and BibDesk would create
>>> those for you (think of Local-Url-1, Local-Url-2, etc.).  The file
>>> name (value of the field), would be set by autofile, as I have
>>> said.  I believe that quote was in response to a specific question
>>> about Local-Url, but it's midnight here and I can't be bothered to
>>> check :).
>>>
>>> --   
>>> adam
>>
>> Wouldn't that lead to conflicts, as you now have several files with
>> the same bibliography info.
>
> How so?  If you're referring to Autofile, a unique specifier would be
> mandatory.

But it isn't.

>
>> Also, how would you want to include the alias data in bibtex?
>
> Use base64 encoding, similar to what Apple does for NSData in XML
> plists.  Ugly and long, but won't conflict with BibTeX.
>
> --  
> adam
>

But it is dependent on the file encoding, and that is variable. In  
particular if the file is edited or imported from outside bibdesk.

Christiaan


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