Christiaan asked: "Are you sure this was not the case in 1.6.4, not just that you happened to use that on an older OS system? Because I can assure you that BibDesk was not changed in any way in handling dashes."
I am 100% certain. I upgraded to BibDesk v1.6.5 a few days ago (when I installed MacTeX-2016) and continued using Mavericks just as I had before. When I recognized the hyphen problem I switched back and forth several times between v1.6.4 and v1.6.5 editing the same .bib file. When I was typing in the Abstract field of the Editor window, BibDesk v1.6.4 ignored the system "Use smart quotes and dashes" preference; it did not replace straight quotes and hyphens with curly quotes and dashes. BibDesk v1.6.5 does the replacement, therefore I have now unchecked "Use smart quotes and dashes" in System Preferences to get the behavior I was accustomed to with v1.6.4. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports. http://sdm.link/zohomanageengine _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users