On Dec 11, 2013, at 11:14, Ryohei SETO <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
>>> I meant: ‘eid’ is not included in the default list. So, when I try to add 
>>> Column to see, ‘eid’ is not in the list to choose or add.
>> 
>> That control is a combo box; you can type "Eid" in it, or anything else that 
>> doesn't show up on the list.
> 
> Actually, I did not complain the behavior. (I did not know I can modify the 
> list in Preferences. Thanks)

Yes, but you don't have to add it in Preferences just to show a column. You can 
type anything in the control that you showed in your screenshot; you're not 
limited to the drop-down menu choices.

> I reported, just because I noticed several downloaded bib files include 
> “Eid". 
> If it is very standard like “pages”, it maybe better for Bibdesk to know it 
> from the beginning.
> But, I did not know it is standard or not. 
> My quick google search says something like: "eid to enter the citation 
> number, or electronic identifier. This field was originally added at the 
> request of the American Physics Society and hence the name was fixed by them."

In general, there's no need to add it; BibDesk will allow any field you care to 
name, so in that sense, it "knows" about all fields The type of mapping you're 
thinking of matters more in the case of RIS, where we translate some 
non-standard fields to the nearest BibTeX equivalent.

Adding to the list of default fields in Preferences is mainly useful in two 
cases:

1) you want that field to be added to a type (or all types) by default, in 
which case it will show up in the editor window

2) the field is not a string, and you want to treat it specially (as a person 
name or URL, for example, which are displayed differently from a simple string)

Adam


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