On Jan 25, 2011, at 17:02, enas wrote:
> Dear list members,
>
> I'm trying to implement a simple TextMate command that will open the PDF of a
> paper that's being cited (and maybe another one that will just show me its
> title). I'm pretty fluent in TextMate related stuff, but I will need to
> include some AppleScript in the middle, in which I'm not fluent by any means.
> Now I understand this is very basic, and I could probably figure out
> everything I need in half a day, but I cannot afford that at the moment
> unfortunately.
>
> So I'd like to have a simple AppleScript that will receive the path to a bib
> file, a cite key, and return me the path to the first PDF in the linked files
> of the corresponding publication. Any hint on doing that?
>
tell application "BibDesk"
open POSIX file "/path/to/bibtex/file.bib"
tell front document
set thePubs to publications whose cite key is "citekey"
if (count of thePubs) > 0 then
set thePub to contents of item 1 of thePubs
tell thePub
if (count of linked files) > 0 then
return POSIX path of linked file 1
end if
end tell
end if
end tell
end tell
(typed in Mail).
> Or is there a way I can access the information that is encoded in the bib
> file without using AppleScript?
>
> Thanks,
>
> enas
You could use Spotlight, which you can access from the command line (or a
script) using mdfind and mdls.
mdfind "net_sourceforge_bibdesk_citekey == '<key>'"
returns the path to a .bdskcache file that contains the attributes for the item
with cite key <key> (if it exists), while
mdls -raw -name kMDItemWhereFroms "/path/to/file.bdskcache"
will return the linked files and URLs for the item.
Christiaan
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