Thanks for all the info Adam and Christiaan! I really appreciate it.
About group fields, I went to View->Group Field->Add Field and tried to type
in "Series", but it gave me a warning that says "Invalid Field: The field
"Series" can not be used for groups." The others fields work, such as author
(is there a way to link author and editor in case there is no author?),
year, etc.
I'm sorry, I got the wording wrong about the cite key error. It usually does
it if I try to add more than one PDF and says: "Duplicate Cite Key: One or
more items you added have a cite key which is either already used in this
document. You should provide a unique one." Is there an option to turn off
the warning?
Thanks!
Nick
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> On Nov 23, 2009, at 4:21, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
> >
> > On Nov 22, 2009, at 6:52 PM, Nick Illich wrote:
> >
> >> One thing I liked about Mendeley, though, was that when I drag one of my
> PDFs to the program, it gives me a button that allows me to automatically
> try to retrieve information based on Google Scholar if I type in the title,
> etc. Is there a way to do something similar in BibDesk?
> >
> > Not at present. If you download or copy e.g., BibTeX or RIS data for
> that citation, though, you can drop it or paste it on the editor window of
> the reference (at least, I think that still works).
> >
> >> I've been able to import information from Google Scholar and other sites
> through BibDesk before, but only if do it before I add a blank entry with a
> PDF. Is there a way to look up the information after an entry is created
> (from adding a PDF there)?
> >
> > There's code to do this for PubMed based on the PDF contents, but not
> Google Scholar. I vaguely recall an AppleScript from Brian Helenbrook that
> did something similar with other indexes, but the links on the wiki are
> dead. You could implement something yourself with AppleScript, I think.
> >
> >> Also, in recent versions, it gives me a warning whenever I add more than
> one PDF/blank entries that the cite key is missing. Since I know about it
> and will add it later, is there an option that will allow me to turn the
> warning off?
> >
> > That sounds odd. Do you have citekey as part of the autofile naming
> scheme?
> >
>
> Which / what kind of warning are you talking about?
>
> >> Also, when there is a translator for a book, what field does it go
> under? I didn't see a translator field, so I created one, but I was just
> wondering what others in general used for this kind of situation, if there
> is an option I do not know of.
> >
> > You'll have to add your own, since that's not a standard BibTeX field.
> BibLaTeX might define a standard field for it.
> >
> >> I also really like being able to view all the keywords on the side pane
> and browse by those. I was wondering if there were other "browse by"
> options, in particular I'm interested in browsing by the series title,
> showing all the volumes of a particular series.
> >
> > Absolutely. See
> >
> > http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/manual/BibDesk%20Help_33.html
> >
> > or search for "group" in the help book.
> >
>
> And you can choose the field to use for the field (keyword) groups using
> View > Group Field (or the context menu on the header of those groups).
>
> >> Finally, if my computer fails for some reason and I have to back up all
> of my data,
> >
> > I recommend backing up before the failure :)
> >
> >> would the data links between the pdf and bib file remain in place? For
> instance, if I retrieve a copy of my bibliography file from a source and
> also a copy of all the pdfs that it had linked to, will the links break or
> will it automatically know where to find them? Would they have to maintain
> the same path?
> >
> > As long as the relative path from the .bib file to the linked files is
> the same, it will just work. There are some other details that have been
> discussed in the archives, like this thread:
> >
> >
> http://www.mail-archive.com/bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg03651.html
> >
> > regards,
> > Adam
>
> More generally: either 1. the relative path, 2. the full path or 3. the
> file id must remain the same for BibDesk to find the linked file back.
>
> Christiaan
>
>
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