On Dec 30, 2007, at 9:42 AM, James Harrison wrote:

> I have an author-date version of CiteInPages 
> (http://jhh.med.virginia.edu/main/CiteInPages
> ) almost complete and the last issue is the sort order of the
> bibliography (and in-text citations with multiple references).

Cool!

> I'm looking for a standard alphabetical sort based on author name  
> and my
> (naive) preference would be to call a sort from a template (perhaps as
> a collection modifier) or, as a second choice, to set the sort by
> defining a property in the script and passing the instruction to
> BibDesk. Either would allow the user to have some control over the
> sort and would be faster than implementing a sort in Applescript.
>
> I don't see a method to specify the sort order of exported references
> in the BibDesk docs or Applescript library, but I may just be missing
> it. I'd be grateful if anyone could point me in the right direction or
> clue me to best practices for sorting references out of BibDesk.

I don't see any way to do this at present, but I'm pretty clueless  
about AS.  You might want to file a feature request so we don't forget  
about it; sorting author names is fairly complicated.  It might also  
help to know how it fits into your code (I'd assume you have a list of  
pubs that you want to sort)?

Google turned up this: http://www.apple.com/applescript/sbrt/sbrt-05.html 
  which might help in the meantime.

-- 
adam

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