Dear Christiaan, Thanks a lot for responding!
Actually I have another question about the metadata: Will it be possible to write all the metadatas(title, author, subject, keyword, comments) directly to the pdf file itself? Since Adobe supports these metadata inside the pdf. I use itune to manage all my mp3 files, the workflow works pretty well. I think one of the key issue is that the mp3 file could store all the metadata, such as artist, album, genre inside the file itself. So I don't need to manually input all the info myself, it comes with the mp3 files. (well, sometimes I need to double check those infomations.) For the academic references, however, the metadata are always be apart from the file. Such as the bibtex file, it's kind like the reference card of the library. I really tried several softwares, like Zotero, Mendeley, Papers, Endnotes, seem no one supports this. Just be curious why it is such case, is it so difficult to support this feature technically? Or there's alternative way I don't know? Thanks, and best wishes Chao On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]>wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with > vRanger. > Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is > safe, > secure and there when you need it. Discover what all the cheering's about. > Get your free trial download today. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-dev2dev2 > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users > >
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