On 11 Oct 2007, at 8:31 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > > On Thursday, October 11, 2007, at 11:25AM, "Christiaan Hofman" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On 11 Oct 2007, at 8:00 PM, Ingrid Giffin wrote: >> >>> On 10/11/07 11:32 AM, "Adam R. Maxwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Thursday, October 11, 2007, at 10:28AM, "Ingrid Giffin" >>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> I see. I was using coding from the only online information I've >>>>> been able to >>>>> find. Is there a good list somewhere of the preferred latex 2e >>>>> coding? >>>> >>>> I recommend <http://noodle.med.yale.edu/latex/essential.pdf>, >>>> especially if >>>> you're new to LaTeX or (as in your case) not using it. >>> >>> Thank you, that answered a lot of questions. When I use this >>> coding, I see >>> that most titles also display more nicely in the reference window. >>> But items >>> that use codes like "\&" still show the slash in the reference >>> window. Not a >>> big deal, but I wonder why the reference display doesn't translate >>> those >>> special characters. >>> >>> Ingrid >> >> Parsing any tex would be too far a stretch for bibdesk, tex is far >> too complex for that and bibdesk is not tex parser. We do a little >> bit of cleaning and interpreting for display that is not too >> difficult and fast. Compare the built-in latex preview to see that >> fully parsing latex is far too slow to be useful. > > The attributed string parsing should definitely not be extended, > but I wonder if stringByRemovingTeX ought to be a bit more > aggressive in removing backslashes? > > Also, if you (Ingrid) aren't using LaTeX/BibTeX, you don't need to > backslash-escape special characters or use font commands; BibDesk > doesn't require them. IIRC you're going from BibDesk->Bookends- > >Mellel? > > -- > adam
I don't really think so. Many commands have a meaning, and the meaning depends on the context (which we don't know). Some just do some formatting (you may want to remove those), some however you want to keep as they stand for something (think of \LaTeX). We simply don't know which is the case, so therefore I think we should leave it in. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
