On Nov 18, 2011, at 15:32 , FZiegler wrote:

> I don't intend to ever have an entry with more than one linked file. 
> btw. To me this contradicts the whole spirit of bibliography: if we have 
> two different documents, then they should each have its own entry.

Sometimes you have supporting information (animation, additional graphics, 
source, etc.) to attach to a publication.  That's the use case that we've
designed for, and the reason that you can attach multiple files of /any/
type.

> On the other hand, I *do* often have several entries linking to the same 
> file, for practical reasons. (E.g., I've got volumes of collected works, 
> or Encyklopädie, from archive.org. Each has its own entry under the 
> editor's or collectee's name; but I often have entries for individual 
> articles. These link again to the whole volume -- since it's there.) I 
> mention this because it's easy to do by manually in the Local-Url field, 
> whereas... how would I do it under the new filing system?

Drag that file to the file pane for each entry it should be associated
with.  If it's a collection, consider using crossrefs.

>> Yes, this is the decomposed S + caron and the combined S-with-caron 
>> respectively. What you get is fairly unpredictable, different methods will 
>> give different results, all kinds of processes can change the composition. 
>> That's the problem with Unicode. I wouldn't really know how to normalize 
>> that. I don't know why it would bite you, most methods you would use should 
>> not make a difference between different decompositions.
> 
> Well, the reason we want these paths in plain text is that they are also 
> being used on a Linux server (which mirrors the .bib and Archive). I can 
> see how this sort of issue could bite, because it's the whole reason why 
> Unison (file synchronizer) was not usable between Mac and Linux systems 
> as soon as non-ASCII file names were involved -- until they found a way 
> to normalize.

Do you mean that you're sharing the .bib file with Linux/Windows users?
What software do they use to read the .bib file, and how does it deal with
file names?  Storing it on a server shouldn't matter.

-- 
Adam




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