On Jun 3, 2011, at 9:01, Chao LU wrote: > Hi Christiaan, > > I've tried the first suggestion, it's a smart idea. But seem BibDesk will > automatically convert all the forward slash "/" symbol into dash "-". >
That's the default behavior, as explained in the online help. You can change it to anything you like, including "/" itself, using the first optional argument %k[/]1. > Then I downloaded the source code, built the binary on my machine, it seems > to be buggy, on opening any bib file, BibDesk will quit immediately. Maybe > that's the problem caused by my local compiling environment, so I'm waiting > to try the nightly-build from the website. > > Best, > > Chao Can't say much without knowing why it crashed. It does work for us, as you can see from the nightly builds. Christiaan > > 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
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