On 10/11/07 12:31 PM, "Adam R. Maxwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? I was getting all kinds of BibDesk error messages with the special characters on import, so I added backslashes for those. As far as text formatting, I seem to be getting translation to italics somewhere along the way from BibDesk to Bookends to Mellel, although I haven't looked at the mechanism closely. I could be hallucinating. Even if it doesn't translate properly, I need to mark for italics somehow, so that I know what to italicize later even if I have to do it by search-and-replace. Ingrid ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
