On Apr 13, 2010, at 2:45, Peter Cowan wrote:

> All,
> 
> Two of my favorite issues in BibDesk are the autofile feature and the
> "Send via Email" features.  Recently I ran into an issue where when
> certain citations were selected the "Send via Email" silently failed.
> This turned out to be because the associated pdf filename was
> 
> "Sax D & Gaines S 2003 Trends In Ecology \& Evolution.pdf"
> 
> Getting rid of the slash before "&" fixed the issue.
> 
> My autofile format string is: %A[ & ][ ]3 %Y%u0 %f{Journal}30%e
> 
> and I have selected "Clean by removing Tex".  This produces the above
> file for the citation:
> 
> Sax DF, Gaines SD (2003) Species diversity: from global decreases to
> local increases. Trends In Ecology & Evolution 18, 561–566.
> 
> To summarize, some of my journal names have "&" in them which is
> escaped as "\&", which is subsequently in the filename when using
> autofile.  These files then cause "Send via Email" to fail.
> 
> What am I doing wrong? Is there a work around?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Peter
> 

Unfortunately, I think you're doing nothing wrong and there's no workaround.

Christiaan



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