Dear all, Sorry to barge in on this list, but I’m quite desperate as I have only a few days to submit my dissertation and I am at a loss about how to solve a .bib file management problem.
My problem is that at some point in the past I merged two large bibliography files and I now need to unmerge them. Specifically I need to delete all references that came from one of the two original files. Because BibDesk does not appear to store information on the date a bibtex reference was first added, the only way that I can identify which reference is from which original file is from the citekey. In one of the files all the citekeys were constructed with full colons and in the other none of them were, so if I can search the citekey field for a full colon I can select all the references from one original file and not the other. However the Smart Group feature does not currently allow me to match by citekey. Would it be possible to do this using a “Script Group”? Unfortunately I do not have any experience writing scripts and I haven’t found any help documentation on this BibDesk feature. Since I still have one of the original .bib files from which this merged .bib file was created I presume I could also do the unmerge by identifying and removing duplicates between the merged file and original file. However I cannot see a feature for this in BibDesk and I’m not familiar with the command line tools that I presume would be necessary for this. Can anyone help me out? Best, John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
