Two quick related questions on this:
(1) Is there any particular reason why the Cite Key field can't be
used in Smart
Groups (as opposed to Search and Replace)?
(2) In Database Search and Replace I can use regexes to search. Any way
how to construct a Smart Group using regexes?
On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 2:32 PM, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Another way to do this is using AppleScript. You can select all items with
> cite key containing a colon:
>
> *tell* *document* 1 *of* *application* "BibDesk"
> *select* (*every* *publication* *whose* cite key *contains* ":")
> *end* *tell*
>
> And similar with “does not contain” instead of “contains". You can then
> put the selection in a static group, or export the selection, or whatever
> you want.
>
> BTW, script groups would not be of any help, these are for external data
> generated by a script, not for scripts processing the internal data.
>
> Christiaan
>
> On 22 Jul 2018, at 23:06, John Clegg <jjcl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks! That’s not exactly what I need, but it could be really helpful.
>
> On Jul 22, 2018, at 3:51 PM, Stephan Kurz <stephan.k...@univie.ac.at>
> wrote:
>
> Trying to think of possible reasons on what you want/need to achieve, I'm
> chiming in with another suggestion:
> If all you need is a bibliography containing all references you actually
> used in your dissertation, you could try dropping your document's (main)
> .aux file onto BibDesk's main table (after compilation); this selects all
> used entries. Then copy and paste into a new document.
>
> Good luck,
> Stephan
>
> Am 2018-07-22 um 22:02 schrieb Adam R. Maxwell via Bibdesk-users:
>
> On Jul 22, 2018, at 10:50 , John Clegg <jjcl...@gmail.com <
> mailto:jjcl...@gmail.com <jjcl...@gmail.com>>> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> Can you use the "Item number" field for this purpose? You'd just have to
> find the cutoff point for your original file, sorting by item number.
> -- adam
>
>
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