On Sep 8, 2010, at 22:00, Themis Matsoukas wrote:

> On Sep 8, 2010, at 1:40 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> As always, I am impressed with the speed of the development team!
> 
>>> BTW, the autofile format is supposed to be a relative path so it should NOT 
>>> start with "/". Perhaps that's the problem.
> 
> Christiaan, 
> 
> can you elaborate? I have the following settings:
>           File papers in fixed location: 
> ~/WorkStuff/Research/Bibliography/eLibrary
>           Format String: /%b/%a1-%c{Journal}%y%u0%e
> 
> Then, if file xyz.pdf is linked to a record in foo.bib, it  will be saved as 
>           ~/WorkStuff/Research/Bibliography/eLibrary/foo/xyz.pdf
> 
> I use several different bib databases and this allows me to organize the pdfs 
> in a way that makes sense (to me).  It has worked without problems. Are you 
> saying this is not the proper way to do this?
> How should I do it then?
> 
> Themis

The format should not have the initial forward slash before %b, so it should be 
"%b/%a1-%c{Journal}%y%u0%e".

Christiaan


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