On Oct 1, 2007, at 11:03 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > On 1 Oct 2007, at 7:28 PM, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote: > >> B. The other option (one or the other has to be done, otherwise the >> recipient will get a .bib file with a lot of broken PDF links) is to >> change the local-url field in the archived .bib file to point to the >> correct target. The problem with this option is if there are two PDFs >> named the same thing, but in different directories, option A will >> automatically "do the right thing," whereas option B will require >> renaming the PDF before archiving. >> >> -AHM >> > > The way we add the files automatically renames the files in case of > naming conflicts. However I cannot think of any way to couple this > back to the bibtex, as those things take place in completely separate > parts of the code. Moreover when the actual filenames of the included > PDFs are determined, they have no link anymore to the items they > correspond to. So I don't see how to do that. And I find this far too > inessential a feature to add all kinds of fragile special case > handling as a workaround. > > Christiaan
Hmm, OK, I didn't know that these were completely separate parts of the code. This could probably be done through AppleScript by the user if desired. -AHM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
