On Jun 13, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Craig Maloney wrote: > Hi all. > > (Developers: great product...) > > I really like the fact that I can drag .isi files from web of science > into the bibdesk pane and it will automatically convert to bibtex and > generate a key. BUT there are some older W.O.S. database entries WITH > ANNOYING BLOCK CAPS FORMATTING.
Yeah, that's annoying. I added code to the ISI search feature to avoid some of this (also used in SciFinder), but it didn't make it into the old .isi parsing code. > The perl script which I used to use > to convert isi to bibtex does a nice job of fixing this. What would > be the easiest way to have bibdesk automatically use my preferred > isitobibtex.pl filter instead of Bibdesk's built-in one? File->Open Using Filter... will work if your script writes to stdout, but it's less convenient than drag-and-drop. Alternately, you might be able to use AppleScript to clean it up (but munging strings in perl is much easier than in AS). > Also, a completely unrelated question: > The documentation for using the built-in internet database searching > (e.g. web of science) is very sparse and it's tough for me to find > anything searching this newsgroup. I can't seem to get it to work. > Any pointers? If there is any documentation for that, I imagine it's fairly outdated; the interface is a bit odd now since I never thought we'd have this many search groups. Presently it requires IP-based authentication (VPN or SOCKS proxy should work). To search Web of Science, go to Searches->New Search Group, and click the ISI radio button. Choose the database you want to search and click OK. This creates a group named "Empty" in the source list, so make sure it's selected. This should give you a second searchfield below the one in the toolbar. Any valid WoS search string can be used (TY search is assumed unless you specify something different). Hope that helps. If you can figure it out and write up some human- readable steps, they could be added to the help book! -- Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
