On Oct 28, 2007, at 7:50 PM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: > On Oct 28, 2007, at 7:53 PM, Gary L. Gray wrote: > >> Hi All. >> >> Under Leopard, you can now search for stuff in the TeX installation. >> See: >> >> http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/mac911/2007/10/spotsyssearch/ >> index.php >> >> for details on how to do search. I tried it and it works and is fast. >> > > For BibDesk users---if you follow the steps in the link Gary provided > above, you'll also see that you can add to your "search" menu a > variety of attributes of items in BibDesk, such as their publication > date, type, containing volume, and the boolean value "item has been > read", and cite key. Maybe you already could do this in Tiger but I > didn't know about it then, and just discovered it.
Yes, you could do this in Tiger as well. > Also, I saw "PDF Notes" there which I take it is associated with Skim? I don't think so. > Adam and Christiaan---any plans to extend the list of Spotlight- > indexed properties of BibDesk records, such as author or title? I > suppose one could always just search from within BibDesk in any case. Those are standard attributes, and have always been indexed by our Spotlight plugin. To see what's indexed, use Terminal to run `mdls ~/ Library/Caches/Metadata/edu.ucsd.cs.mmccrack.bibdesk/ pathToSome.bdskcache` -- adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
