On Sep 8, 2010, at 19:27, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > On Sep 8, 2010, at 18:50, Themis Matsoukas wrote: > >> On Sep 8, 2010, at 11:39 AM, Themis Matsoukas wrote: >> >>> The citation record shown below gives me several problems that I cannot >>> explain: >>> >>> 1. On the the main bibdesk window, the url (@) is empty, even though the >>> url field contains a valid address. >>> 2. In the TeX preview window, I get the message "TeX" preview generation >>> failed, but a preview *IS* produced (the log is atatched). >>> 3. When I close the record I get the warning: >>> >>> AutoFile did not have enough information to file this paper. Would you >>> like to continue editing, or close the window and keep this entry as-is? >> >> >> After some experimentation I isolated the problem in the url field. If I >> remove it, all other problems go away. The url is >> >> http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=3&hid=106&sid=87b6a52e-623b-482f-b74c-85b9630ed343%40sessionmgr112&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=buh&AN=7429233%23db=buh&AN=7429233%23db=buh&AN=7429233 >> >> >> Themis >> > > There are various things that can go wrong with the URL. > > 1. Apparently Apple has problems with the fragment separator in the URL (#). > Looking at our code, this used to work in the past because we explicitly > don't escape those, but somehow Apple has decided that it doesn't like them, > though it's a valid URI character. I don't know how that should be handled, > as escaping them would also be wrong.
Correction, it does not seem to be related to the "#" character. It is really a problem in the way we try to escape special characters. Though I don't see why that actually should give a problem, because in the end we do escape them. Anyway, this should be fixed in tomorrow's nightly. Christiaan > 2. The error message probably is related to the underfull hbox warning. The > warning is shown whenever any of the tex processes say that they fail (return > a nonzero return value). You should realize that the purpose of the tex > preview is to see whether tex will be able to use the item without any > problems, therefore it should warn whenever tex warns. > > 3. I don't know what is going on here. You may also show the status bar on > the detail window (View menu), then it will show whether it needs to autofile > the linked file, and by clicking the icon you can see which fields it expects. > > BTW, the autofile format is supposed to be a relative path so it should NOT > start with "/". Perhaps that's the problem. > > Christiaan > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
