On 16 May 2011, at 14:46, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > On May 16, 2011, at 22:06, Jan Anderssen wrote: > >> Hi - >> >> I'm wondering if there is, or could be, a way to sort the main table by >> author and year. >> >> I realize that it is possible to do this by sorting by year first, and then >> switching back to sorting by author, but this is not remembered >> (understandably, since there's no way of telling what my intention was). >> >> iTunes has recently solved this problem by introducing a few fixed multiple >> sort criteria, I use "Album by Artist/Year" happily. Another, more general, >> option might be to explicitly allow multiple sort criteria as e.g. Numbers >> and Excel do. >> >> I don't have the skills to contribute myself -- maybe one day I will -- but >> in the meantime, maybe I could add this as a request for help (if the >> feature exists), or a new feature request (if it doesn't). >> >> Cheers, >> Jan >> >> P.S. A note on the recent papers/bibdesk discussion and the shininess factor: >> >> I tried Papers in the beginning, I think partly because of the "shininess" >> -- the cute little house construction when it started etc.. But then, in >> complete contrast to the clean look, I actually found it pretty messy with >> respect to the conceptual underpinning, particularly as witnessed by the >> initial complete inability to work with bibtex in any sensible way. >> >> I am a big fan of BibDesk and I'm not even tempted to give Papers another >> try. I'd trade its shiny mess for the well-thoughtout powerhouse with a look >> that one may perceiving as slightly more utilitarian any time again. That >> being said, I have a few friends who happily use Papers as a simple >> interface to access and somewhat catalogue their pdfs, which I assume it >> does nicely. So to some extent, I think the user bases of the two programs >> may be quite different. >> >> Anyway, a big Thank You! to all BibDesk contributors. > > I don't see a reasonable way we could do this. > > One big difference between iTunes and BibDesk is that the content of iTunes > is pretty much fixed, while for BibDesk it's very versatile. We cannot set a > few fixed sort criteria. > > Apart from that, it would require special UI to be able to set search > criteria. For this the general remarks on UI clutter apply. You should > realize that one of the reasons BibDesk may be good to work with is precisely > because we guard very much for good and intuitive UI without too much clutter > (though we did sin against it before we fully realized the problems). > > Though perhaps we could try to remember the secondary criterium. However, it > is not too reliable, as it can be lost when you use some e.g. external groups > (because that sorts by import order). This is an important reason why we > never did save it. > > Christiaan > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability > What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. > Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools > to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
This won't apply to everyone, but ... if you define your citation keys in the form authorName:year:whatever then sorting by Cite Key will do what (I think) you want. [ Of course this approach has zero flexibility! ;-) ] [ No way to change your ordering on the fly. Sorry. ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
