On Jan 11, 2009, at 7:26 PM, Derick Fay wrote:
I have the following EndNote formatted citation on my clipboard: TY - JOUR
[...]
ER -
This looks like RIS, but it's not...since in RIS each tag should be followed by two spaces, and the last line must be "ER - ". Typical.
When I go (in BibDesk 1.3.19) to Publication > New Publications from Clipboard... nothing happens.
From a quick glance at the code, I'd say it's because the RIS parser lies and says that it can parse this since it sees "TY + whitespace + dash" at the beginning, but then it fails to parse since it didn't count the number of spaces (required to be two).
If I put some other text on the clipboard, I can get the New Publications from Clipboard... menu item to work as expected, then copy the citation above, and use the Publication > Load Clipboard menu item to get the citation to appear in the left hand pane.
Simply inserting a single character before the "TY" will cause BibDesk to realize that it's not RIS.
But I am puzzled as to why the menu item simply doesn't respond when that citation is on the clipboard.
I think there should be some feedback when parsing fails like that, but don't have time to check into it. You might file a bug report on that.
-- Adam
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