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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
