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

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