If you look on the TeX on OSX mailing list archives, you will find some discussion of strategies for TeX'ing remotely, using dropbox. Maybe that will give people some ideas.
Although I have no doubt that the iPad would be eminently useful for reading and annotating papers, I would just like to point out that the latest advance in mobile technology simulates um, a clipboard. If there is some way to annotate the PDF, then we'll be able to simulate a clipboard and a pen. Adam On Jun 9, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Michael McCracken wrote: > Hi Steven - you're not the only person who'd like something like this. > > I don't currently have an iPad (or iPhone for that matter) but I > expect I will get an iPad soon, and I'd really like to have some good > solution for reading papers and adding notes. > > However, I have no idea what that'd look like, yet - and I don't know > what kind of open-source collaboration you'd get on an App-store app, > when you have to pay to develop for it, and there are lots of reasons > to dislike Apple's dev policies. > > In the mean time, have you looked at the dropbox iPad app? I haven't > tried it, but I understand it lets you view PDFs that are in your > dropbox. > I suspect that you could tell bibdesk to save your papers to a > subdirectory of your dropbox-synced directory, and then you'd at least > get the PDFs synced to your iPad easily... > > NOTE: I haven't tried that - so be careful. I don't see any reason why > it wouldn't work, though. > > Cheers, > -mike > > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 4:50 AM, Steven Robertson > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> A while ago there was a discussion on this list about a version of Bibdesk >> and/or Skim on the iPad. It doesn't seem like anything ever came of it, and >> the consensus at the time seems to have been that it's not likely to happen. >> >> If not a full Bibdesk/Skim App, does anyone know of any App (or >> Applescript?) that would allow a user to: >> 1. select a smart or static group in Bibdesk; >> 2. copy a BibTex file for those items and any linked PDFs across to some App >> on the iPad; >> 3. read PDFs through the App (with no particular need to annotate them) >> using the BibTex information to find the article I'm looking for; and >> 4. (ideally) allow me to create new citations with links to PDFs that I'm >> reading on the iPad, and then to add these to Bibdesk when I get (although >> perhaps that's asking too much of the iPad). >> >> I know of a few iPad PDF readers out there (e.g. Goodreader) but without >> taking a bunch of extra steps it seems that these won't be able to use the >> information from my bibtex file to help me find an article - so I'd have to >> rely on filenames or my memory to tell me which PDF is which. Papers exists >> for the iPad, but I'd much rather use Bibdesk. A key feature (and the reason >> why this seemed on-topic for this list) is that it would be a simple matter >> to go from a bunch of items Bibdesk to reading them on the iPad once I get >> on the train. >> >> Or am I on a wild goose chase? >> >> Thanks for any feedback, >> Steven >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bibdesk-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate > GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the > lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users ------------------ Adam M. Goldstein PhD, MSLIS -- [email protected] http://www.shiftingbalance.org http://www.twitter.com/shiftingbalance -- http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=180621 -- (914) 637-2717 (msg) -- Dept of Philosophy Iona College 715 North Avenue New Rochelle NY 10801
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