Re: [Bibdesk-users] Unicode to TeX conversion

2007-08-14 Thread Simon Spiegel
On 14.08.2007, at 16:59, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: With all that in mind, it may be possible to write an ANTLR grammar to handle most of what we need, and do it efficiently. That's keeps getting pushed to the end of my to-do list, so if someone else wants to start hacking a grammar with ANTLRWo

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Various questions on BibDesk templates

2007-08-14 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Aug 14, 2007, at 08:39, Simon Spiegel wrote: < [EMAIL PROTECTED]/> > > This works, but can I do something like <$authors><$firstName/> < > $lastName/>/ with Translator once it's defined > as a person? No. You need to use persons.Fieldname to access any person field that is not a

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Various questions on BibDesk templates

2007-08-14 Thread Simon Spiegel
On 13.08.2007, at 22:19, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > On 13 Aug 2007, at 9:19 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: > >> >> On 13.08.2007, at 21:05, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: >> >>> >>> On Monday, August 13, 2007, at 11:57AM, "Simon Spiegel" >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 13.08.2007, at 20:34, Adam

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Unicode to TeX conversion

2007-08-14 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
To add to Christiaan's statement: Simon wants \thinspace, others want nonbreaking space, and I personally want math and particularly sub/ superscript commands to be parsed. The slippery slope isn't hard to see; either we add a thousand special cases, or implement a full TeX interpreter. O

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Unicode to TeX conversion

2007-08-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
No, because there is no end to this. Christiaan On 14 Aug 2007, at 12:06 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: > > On 14.08.2007, at 12:02, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > >> Can but won't. As BibDesk is not a full latex parser and latex >> parsing is slow, while display happens a lot, there is only a limited >>

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Unicode to TeX conversion

2007-08-14 Thread Simon Spiegel
On 14.08.2007, at 12:02, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > Can but won't. As BibDesk is not a full latex parser and latex > parsing is slow, while display happens a lot, there is only a limited > amount of cleaning and tex parsing we can do. I understand why this isn't done by default, but could the cu

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Unicode to TeX conversion

2007-08-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Can but won't. As BibDesk is not a full latex parser and latex parsing is slow, while display happens a lot, there is only a limited amount of cleaning and tex parsing we can do. Christiaan On 14 Aug 2007, at 11:43 AM, Simon Spiegel wrote: > Hi, > > this is a bit of an esoteric question: For

[Bibdesk-users] Unicode to TeX conversion

2007-08-14 Thread Simon Spiegel
Hi, this is a bit of an esoteric question: For some author entries like 'Wells. H. G.', I use the latex thin space \, between the initials, so the entry looks like author = {Wells, H.{\,}G.}. This works, but for purely aesthetic reasons (and also for HTML export) I'd would prefer if BibDes