On May 4, 2009, at 4:42 PM, Luc Bourhis wrote:
although bibdesk is invaluable to me, I have a few gripes when it comes to share a bib file managed by Bibdesk with non-bibdesk users.1) My collaborators keep complaining about the Bdsk-File-1 entries which takes a very large amount of text editor screen space (not to mention bandwith), to no avail for them.
A simple option would be to use File->Export to save a .bib file as "minimal" BibTeX for your collaborators.
I think Christiaan added a bunch of the old Local-Url stuff back in, so you might be able to use that. I wouldn't recommend it, since it makes your links fragile once again and possibly reduces functionality.
With cite completion in modern editors, reading the .bib file seems unusual to me. Why do they do this (serious question...I'm not trying to be snotty)? Are your collaborators able to use JabRef or something similar? Finally, complaining about bandwidth seems like a stretch unless they're on a 2400 baud modem...
2) Bibdesk writes trailing white spaces which make my version control system complain every single time:trunk/dox/cctbx_references.bib:5: trailing whitespace.+%% Created for Luc Bourhis at 2009-05-04 16:29:15 +0200 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||trunk/dox/cctbx_references.bib:8: trailing whitespace.+%% Saved with string encoding Western (ISO Latin 1) |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||(The ||||||||||||||| aren't in the file of course: I have added them to show where the trailing blank is!)
Offhand, I'm not sure why this would occur, since the only code appends a single space and double newline when writing that info. If you disable the preference to write a template file when saving, it won't be written at all. My own .bib files are still in CVS, and I don't recall having this problem.
I would think that (2) is trivial to fix.
Time for you to fire up gdb :). The code you're looking for is in BibDocument.m, line 1556.
As for (1), I would really love the info stored in the Bdsk-File-1 to live in another file than the bib file.
At that point, you should consider a different program to manage that info; storing the file info in a separate file would be a nightmare.
-- Adam
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