On Jun 2, 2011, at 22:45, Christiaan Hofman wrote:

> 
> On Jun 2, 2011, at 22:28, Chao LU wrote:
> 
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> I'm a newbie to BibDesk, only playing with it for a few days, but love it so 
>> much. It has almost everything needed to build a personal library of 
>> academic references, digital books, etc. Many thanks to the developers.
>> 
>> Among all the features, one truly outstanding is Autofile. As dip into its 
>> setting a little, I think that it has potentials to build tree structures of 
>> a whole library. 
>> Here is the idea:
>> 
>> Suppose I have a file, called "Learning GNU Emacs.pdf", and I would like to 
>> put it in a directory path like:
>> %LIBRoot%/ComputerSE/Unix/Emacs,
>> I could have BibDesk to do this, by assigning the keywords "ComputerSE, 
>> Unix, Emacs" to this file, then modifying the autofile template as:
>> %k1/%k2/%k3/%A_%T%u0%e
>> 
>> But here comes the problem, instead of getting the path I want, actually I 
>> got something like:
>> %LIBRoot%/ComputerSE/ComputerSEUnix/ComputerSEUnixEmacs
>> 
>> So my question is, in the autofile template, how could I get exactly 
>> keyword2 instead of the first two keywords together? I think the ability of 
>> manipulating each elements(author1, keyword2) may be another power that BD 
>> needs.
>> 
>> Thanks a lot.
>> 
>> Chao
> 
> Sorry, you can't. There is also so much that can be supported, and I'd say we 
> already do support a whole lot. You may use script hook to do the auto-filing 
> yourself. Or you may use keywords that include the whole subpath, as in 
> ComputerSE/Unix/Emacs.
> 
> Christiaan
> 

As an alternative I've added an extra optional argument for a separator between 
the keywords, so you can get what you want using "%k[-][/]3". This will be 
available in the next nightly build.

Christiaan



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