On Apr 14, 2010, at 23:40, Peter Cowan wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On Apr 13, 2010, at 11:06, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 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
>> 
>> I've fixed this for tomorrow's nightly, please test it out.
> 
> Christiaan,
> 
> Thanks for such a quick response.  I tried the nightly marked
> "BibDesk-20100413.dmg" (is there a way to tell which SVN revision that
> is?).  And, I also checked out the source and attempted to build it
> myself (which seemed successful with the debug type selected).
> 
> Unfortunately, both versions also fail silently, with the file: "Sax D
> & Gaines S 2003 Trends In Ecology \& Evolution.pdf".   I get the
> following message in the console:
> 
> 4/14/10 2:34:25 PM    BibDesk[11223]  Error compiling mail to script: {
>    NSAppleScriptErrorBriefMessage = "Expected \U201c\"\U201d but
> found unknown token.";
>    NSAppleScriptErrorMessage = "Expected \U201c\"\U201d but found
> unknown token.";
>    NSAppleScriptErrorNumber = "-2741";
>    NSAppleScriptErrorRange = "NSRange: {463, 1}";
> }
> 
> Did the nightly I grabbed not have the relevant update?   I appreciate
> you attention, to this minor issue!
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
>> 
>> Christiaan

It seems I escaped one type of ampersand but not the other. Please try 
tomorrow's nightly (dated for today).

Christiaan


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