On 12 Sep 2007, at 4:25 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > > On Sep 12, 2007, at 04:34, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > >> BTW, we may have a big change in the way we handle local files in the >> (near?) future. And I'm not sure if saving relative paths will be >> compatible with those changes. > > I was planning to store a relative path as fallback along with the > alias for this situation. > > Thinking about this again, it may be cleaner to make them relative to > the home directory instead of the .bib file. Do you recall why they > are .bib relative now? > > adam >
So you can easily move the .bib file together with the library of papers. It makes that the directory structure on the different systems do not need to be the same, it only matters how the papers are placed relative to the file. We could also make it relative to the Papers Folder, but that could break Local-Url fields that expect it to be different. So I think we never allowed that because of this backward compatibility. I think if we should allow something relative to the Home directory we should use ~ instead of a relative path. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
