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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