On Sep 12, 2007, at 08:41 , Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > On Wednesday, September 12, 2007, at 07:41AM, "Christiaan Hofman" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 12 Sep 2007, at 4:25 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: >>> On Sep 12, 2007, at 04:34, Christiaan Hofman wrote: [snip] >> 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. > > Okay, using a document-relative path certainly makes sense in that > situation. The question then becomes: should we keep this > behavior, or break it now? (By break, I mean use home-relative > instead of document-relative paths). Opinions from the users? > What's easier for people to deal with? I think Mike may be > responsible for the original implementation, so maybe he has comments.
I don't know that relative paths can be made to work, unless the files in question are in the same directory or a directory "below" the document in question. I keep my docs scattered, in directories depending on context (courses, research, ToDo, ...). None are in my home directory, so "~/"-relative will only work if "~/" is always the same distance from "/" (e.g. "/X/justin" but not "/Volumes/X/justin"). Perhaps document-relative (or .bib-relative) is the best bet, short of using aliases (which only work on Mac OS; I'm not sure whether this is an issue since we're only talking about BibDesk). Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon at Large Institute for the Absorption of Federal Funds ----------- If it weren't for carbon-14, I wouldn't date at all. ----------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
