On Aug 30, 2007, at 08:20, Christiaan Hofman wrote:

>
> On 30 Aug 2007, at 5:10 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
>>
>> On Aug 30, 2007, at 02:43, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>>
>>> 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.

Right now it isn't, but "would be" is future tense.

>>> 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.

Everything in the file is dependent on encoding, though.  Base64 uses  
a subset of ASCII alphanumeric characters, though, which is writable  
in all encodings I'm aware of.

I'd prefer to use a binary file or a file wrapper, but there have been  
objections to that in the past.

-- 
adam

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