Re: [Bibdesk-users] Dublin Core

2009-12-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Dec 12, 2009, at 17:14, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Dec 12, 2009, at 3:14 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Dec 12, 2009, at 10:07, Stephan Kurz wrote: Could someone send me a proper DC XML file which BibDesk successfully imports? (the longer version below has an example XML file which

Re: [Bibdesk-users] apsrev?

2009-12-03 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Dec 3, 2009, at 8:15, david craig wrote: I believe I have diagnosed the problem. On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, Christiaan Hofman wrote: Since installing TeXLive 2009, apsrev has disappeared from the list of BiBDesk's BiBTeX styles in the TeX-Typset Preview preference. I'm not sure

Re: [Bibdesk-users] changing keywords for entries accross whole database/bibfile

2009-11-25 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Nov 25, 2009, at 20:48, Rolf Schmolling wrote: Hi knowledgeable Ones, for a number of reasons I'd like to change ALL my keywords for entries from uppercase to lowercase… Is there a simple (and safe way) to do this? I have tried to use services but working on all of my many entries is

Re: [Bibdesk-users] A Few Questions

2009-11-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Nov 23, 2009, at 4:21, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Nov 22, 2009, at 6:52 PM, Nick Illich wrote: One thing I liked about Mendeley, though, was that when I drag one of my PDFs to the program, it gives me a button that allows me to automatically try to retrieve information based on

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Bulk import from PubMed

2009-11-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Nov 23, 2009, at 14:21, Robert Sekuler wrote: A single PubMed search from BibDesk can return many items that I'd like to import. Does BibDesk support importing multiple items at once? if so, I can't figure out how, and now have to import them one at a time. Robert Sekuler

Re: [Bibdesk-users] A Few Questions

2009-11-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 23, 2009, at 11:47, Nick Illich wrote: Thanks for all the info Adam and Christiaan! I really appreciate it. About group fields, I went to View-Group Field-Add Field and tried to type in Series, but it gave me

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Nightly build testing

2009-11-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
, there was absolutely nothing changed related to this. Christiaan On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: We're ready to test for the next release. If everything worked out also the French localization can be tested. The release notes are updated with (most

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Nightly build testing

2009-11-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Nov 15, 2009, at 11:33, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Nov 15, 2009, at 3:28, Di Xiao wrote: Christiaan, In the currently released version, when editing the keyword information, it used to be that after typing the first several letters, the keyword will be auto-completed

[Bibdesk-users] Nightly build testing

2009-11-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
We're ready to test for the next release. If everything worked out also the French localization can be tested. The release notes are updated with (most of) the latest changes. Christiaan -- Let Crystal Reports handle

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Release?

2009-11-10 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Not yet. The localization has not been updated yet, and I'm not sure if there still needs to be some tweaking of the UI. Christiaan On Nov 9, 2009, at 1:40, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: Hi all The mailing lists have been pretty quiet---maybe start using the nightlies for a week or so to see

Re: [Bibdesk-users] oversized preview icons

2009-10-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Oct 14, 2009, at 16:12, A wrote: Hi all, First, as I didn't write to the mailing list for a long time, I want to congratulate the developers for their work: BibDesk is progressing very nicely. I just have a small question, and I didn't find any answer either that in the list. Since

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Reversing the linked files to local file script

2009-10-06 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Oct 6, 2009, at 19:02, John Stavrakakis wrote: Hi everyone, I am migrating to a new hard disk and I have found the quite useful script to convert linked files to local file urls. But is there a script to reverse the process for my new disk? or at least some advice on how to get a

[Bibdesk-users] Tiger support dropped for nightly builds

2009-09-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
A note for the few Tiger users still remaining: the nightly builds will from now on only support Mac OSX 10.5 and later. Christiaan -- Come build with us! The BlackBerryreg; Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only

Re: [Bibdesk-users] merging two bibdesk files

2009-09-24 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 24, 2009, at 10:45, Carlos Hernandez wrote: Dear All, I have two BibTex files (.bib) and in one of them I updated some items (publications) while in the other I updated different items (publications). That is, the same publication may be updated in one file while not in the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] maillist

2009-09-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 21, 2009, at 12:00, Willem Smelik wrote: Hi, I have been trying in vain to unsubscribe from this email list; using the address where I receive all emails, I do not get a confirmation email. How can I unsubscribe if it doesn't work via the website - or am I overlooking something?

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Release time

2009-09-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 19, 2009, at 17:33, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Sep 19, 2009, at 7:44 AM, Andreas Fischlin wrote: The only thing open from my end of things is the improvent on the help in terms of explaining nature of post processing scripts. I have made the change, but do not know how to commit.

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Linked files and case-sensitive file systems

2009-09-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 18, 2009, at 21:47, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 09/18/09 10:49, Andreas Fischlin andreas.fisch...@env.ethz.ch wrote: 3) The only difficulty I have not been able to overcome in an elegant manners is the attempt by BibDesk on my MacBook Air to access the other big machine during

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Linked files and case-sensitive file systems

2009-09-17 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 17, 2009, at 20:47, Mukund Rangamani wrote: Hello, I have a curious problem with Bibdesk 1.3.21 on OSX 10.6.1. I have a single bib file which I use for my papers collection and this is synchronized between my desktop at work and my laptop via unison. In the last couple of days

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Linked files and case-sensitive file systems

2009-09-17 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 17, 2009, at 23:31, Mukund Rangamani wrote: Hello Christiaan, Thanks for the explanation. I understand how the file links work a bit better now and hopefully have an idea of how to implement the changes. I will let you know how things go, but this might not be for a while. What do

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Templates: What kind of postprocessing is possible? Shell or AppleScripts?

2009-09-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
in a software project is nothing worth than someone not knowing what he/she is doing. Andreas The Wiki has a description on how to fetch the source from SVN. If you open it in Xcode, the file is bibtex.texi in the Help Sources group. Christiaan Christiaan Hofman wrote: Sure, but it's

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Templates: What kind of postprocessing is possible? Shell or AppleScripts?

2009-09-07 Thread Christiaan Hofman
It's rather long. Christiaan On Sep 7, 2009, at 15:00, Andreas Fischlin wrote: Then it might be useful to call this 'Postprocess shell script' instead of merely 'Postprocess Script' (for the next nightly?) Andreas Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Sep 7, 2009, at 12:24, Andreas Fischlin wrote

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Superfluous Show AppleScript menu commands in AppleScript menu (BibDesk Version 1.3.21)

2009-09-05 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 5, 2009, at 20:54, Andreas Fischlin wrote: Hi all, Strange commands such as Show Fix PDF and URL Links menu commands appear in my AppleScript menu of BibDesk, only because I have some script named Fix PDF and URL Links.scpt installed (in $HOME/ Library/Application

Re: [Bibdesk-users] bibdesk startup time and file launch time

2009-09-01 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 27, 2009, at 21:10, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Aug 27, 2009, at 20:49, James Harrison wrote: On Aug 27, 2009, at 2:35 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: except by possibly reading Skim notes in the background If this wouldn't be too difficult or problematic, I'd be interested

Re: [Bibdesk-users] bibdesk startup time and file launch time

2009-09-01 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 1, 2009, at 16:56, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Sep 1, 2009, at 7:41 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: it won't be used for the next release, that's too close. How close? I fixed a deadlock in the web icon last night and haven't had a chance to try and merge it yet. About whenever

Re: [Bibdesk-users] bibdesk startup time and file launch time

2009-09-01 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 1, 2009, at 19:09, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 09/01/09 08:51, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 1, 2009, at 16:56, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Sep 1, 2009, at 7:41 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: it won't be used for the next release, that's too close. How close? I

Re: [Bibdesk-users] bibdesk startup time and file launch time

2009-09-01 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 1, 2009, at 20:51, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 09/01/09 10:11, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: I'd say add it. Done. BTW, do you have to remove Skim notes from the any field index? I was messing with a test implementation using NSOperationQueue, and didn't see

Re: [Bibdesk-users] German Users

2009-08-31 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 31, 2009, at 11:14, Rolf Schmolling wrote: Hi, though personally I have no use for a localized version (my system is in German though), nevertheless I wonder if some users would feel it simpler to switch to the use of LaTeX and BibTeX if there is a german version of Bibdesk around.

Re: [Bibdesk-users] German Users

2009-08-31 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 31, 2009, at 17:09, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Aug 31, 2009, at 2:36 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Aug 31, 2009, at 11:14, Rolf Schmolling wrote: Hi, though personally I have no use for a localized version (my system is in German though), nevertheless I wonder if some users

Re: [Bibdesk-users] German Users

2009-08-31 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 31, 2009, at 18:06, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 08/31/09 08:53, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: Tiger and Leopard let you do this from Finder's Get Info panel. In Snow Leopard, I understand that it's set from System Preferences for all applications: http

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Release time

2009-08-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
, but haven't looked for problems in detail. On 08/28/09 11:20, Adam M. Goldstein a.m.goldst...@mac.com wrote: OK, good. I have been using the nightlies with no problems. I plan on getting Snow Leopard soon, so I will try it when I get it working. Adam On Aug 28, 2009, at 8:07 AM, Christiaan

Re: [Bibdesk-users] bibdesk startup time and file launch time

2009-08-27 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 27, 2009, at 20:49, James Harrison wrote: On Aug 27, 2009, at 2:35 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: except by possibly reading Skim notes in the background If this wouldn't be too difficult or problematic, I'd be interested in having the notes read in the background in a way that allows

Re: [Bibdesk-users] using both bibtex/latex and Pages with BibDesk

2009-08-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 26, 2009, at 9:35, Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote: Le 25 août 09 à 22:08, Christiaan Hofman a écrit : On Aug 25, 2009, at 15:00, Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote: Hi all, This may have been asked before, but I have failed to find an answer. If it was asked, I would appreciate

Re: [Bibdesk-users] bibdesk startup time and file launch time

2009-08-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 26, 2009, at 10:41, Alex Hamann wrote: Am 26.08.2009 um 00:46 schrieb Maxwell, Adam R: On 08/25/09 13:54, Alex Hamann mailingl...@alex-hamann.de wrote: Especially when you've stored them (or your database) on a separate volume it may be more dependent on the mount type and your

Re: [Bibdesk-users] using both bibtex/latex and Pages with BibDesk

2009-08-25 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 25, 2009, at 15:00, Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote: Hi all, This may have been asked before, but I have failed to find an answer. If it was asked, I would appreciate a pointer so I can read about it. So this is the problem: I write some documents using latex/bibtex and some others

Re: [Bibdesk-users] bibdesk startup time and file launch time

2009-08-25 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 25, 2009, at 22:34, Alex Hamann wrote: A question out of pure curiosity: I am trying to optimize my system. I have recently switched to a MBP 13'' with 4 BG RAM and expect it to outshine my old iBook running Tiger in every way. However, I noticed that BibDesk still takes quite long

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Fwd: Quicklook oddity

2009-08-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 21, 2009, at 3:10, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: I am using a recent nightly: 1.3.21 (1586). When I use Quicklook to preview a PDF, the Quicklook window with the preview is always the minimum size, about an inch across on the screen. Adam -- Adam M. Goldstein PhD,

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Release time?

2009-08-20 Thread Christiaan Hofman
the slash even with the strict cleaning options, so that's what I just did for the next nightly. Christiaan On 2009-08-20, at 12:03 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: Actually, these are not (serious) bugs, but rather bug fixes ;-) At most, the sample script seems not to have followed those fixes

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Release time?

2009-08-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 20, 2009, at 0:03, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: Hi everyone, Start testing nightlies, because it's almost time for a new release. Christiaan, are there any show-stopping bugs or work-in-progress that I should hold off for? Adam Nothing in the works, I'll update the release notes

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Release time?

2009-08-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
I'm not sure if that will be possible, as the French localization has not been updated yet. Christiaan On Aug 20, 2009, at 1:29, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: Good, I will aim for this weekend. Adam On Aug 19, 2009, at 7:05 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Aug 20, 2009, at 0:03, Adam M

Re: [Bibdesk-users] meta tags

2009-08-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 11, 2009, at 3:52 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Aug 10, 2009, at 6:23 PM, M. Tamer Özsu wrote: Thanks. That is a pity since meta-tags are becoming increasingly popular and it would have been nice to be able to use them. What meta tags are you speaking of? The OpenMeta stuff?

Re: [Bibdesk-users] meta tags

2009-08-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 11, 2009, at 12:50 PM, M. Tamer Özsu wrote: On Aug 10, 2009, at 6:23 PM, M. Tamer Özsu wrote: Thanks. That is a pity since meta-tags are becoming increasingly popular and it would have been nice to be able to use them. What meta tags are you speaking of? The OpenMeta stuff?

Re: [Bibdesk-users] meta tags

2009-08-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 11, 2009, at 11:59 PM, M. Tamer Özsu wrote: On Tue 11-Aug-09, at 7:19 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Aug 11, 2009, at 12:50 PM, M. Tamer Özsu wrote: On Aug 10, 2009, at 6:23 PM, M. Tamer Özsu wrote: Thanks. That is a pity since meta-tags are becoming increasingly popular

Re: [Bibdesk-users] htlatex and biblatex again

2009-08-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 9, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Andrew Heiss wrote: I found that solution during my initial search, but it doesn't work. LaTeX can't handle it--it stops and gives the error LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}., since the fix tags don't work right. Is there a typo in either of those lines?

Re: [Bibdesk-users] WOS SCI searches hang the 2nd time - BibDesk Version 1.3.21 (1525)

2009-08-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 8, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Andreas Fischlin wrote: Thanks Adam for the answers. Here my replies: Adam R. Maxwell wrote: [snip] This is a generic error message when anything other than a network failure occurs. Use Activity Monitor to take a sample while it's trying to connect, and

Re: [Bibdesk-users] WOS SCI searches hang the 2nd time - BibDesk Version 1.3.21 (1525)

2009-08-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 8, 2009, at 1:24 PM, Andreas Fischlin wrote: Thanks Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Aug 8, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Andreas Fischlin wrote: Thanks Adam for the answers. Here my replies: Adam R. Maxwell wrote: [snip] This is a generic error message when anything other than a network

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibDesk manual as single PDF?

2009-08-03 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 3, 2009, at 3:27 PM, Michael Singer wrote: Is the BibDesk manual available as a single PDF? I was hoping for a single file to mark up in Skim. Thanks, Michael Singer No. Christiaan -- Let Crystal Reports

Re: [Bibdesk-users] crash

2009-07-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jul 29, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Alex Hamann wrote: Am 29.07.2009 um 13:46 schrieb Christiaan Hofman: On Jul 29, 2009, at 1:32 PM, Alex Hamann wrote: Opened bib file created a new custom bibtex type online (one of the field being Auuthor with the uu typo) added a new item online kept

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Having difficulties to export merely the currently selected publications via AppleScript (BibDesk Version 1.3.21 (1525))

2009-07-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
, ;-) ), all probably the reason why AppleScript confuses me regularly (my experience concur's with Will's). Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Jul 28, 2009, at 10:00 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 07/28/09 12:40, Andreas Fischlin andreas.fisch...@env.ethz.ch wrote: I believe I considered

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Having difficulties to export merely the currently selected publications via AppleScript (BibDesk Version 1.3.21 (1525))

2009-07-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.comwrote: On Jul 28, 2009, at 1:54 AM, Andreas Fischlin wrote: Dear Christiaan, as POSIX file, ... a POSIX file needs a POSIX style path, not a Mac style path. And it works. In addition you should not send the 'POSIX

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Having difficulties to export merely the currently selected publications via AppleScript (BibDesk Version 1.3.21 (1525))

2009-07-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jul 28, 2009, at 10:00 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 07/28/09 12:40, Andreas Fischlin andreas.fisch...@env.ethz.ch wrote: I believe I considered these things already, but to cut a long story even shorter ( ;-) ), can you write an AppleScript statement with BibDesk's command

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Having difficulties to export merely the currently selected publications via AppleScript (BibDesk Version 1.3.21 (1525))

2009-07-27 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jul 27, 2009, at 5:19 PM, Andreas Fischlin wrote: Dear all, Perhaps someone can help me: I'm trying to export merely the currently selected publications to a xml file from BibDesk (Version 1.3.21 (1525)). I can happily save all publications in the current document with an applescript

Re: [Bibdesk-users] change bibtex preview style

2009-07-27 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jul 28, 2009, at 12:48 AM, MA V wrote: Hi, I would like to change the style that bibdesk uses to preview the entries that I have in my library. If I go to BibDesk preferences and choose Tex Preview the box in front of BibTeX style is greyed out...so I cannot change the style. Please

Re: [Bibdesk-users] change bibtex preview style

2009-07-27 Thread Christiaan Hofman
OK, I see that the field after BibTeX style is not properly enabled when you turn on TeX preview. The solution is to just relaunch BibDesk. Will be fixed in the next nightly. Christiaan On Jul 28, 2009, at 1:32 AM, MA V wrote: Dear Christiaan, please see attached. Thanks, Ana From:

Re: [Bibdesk-users] change bibtex preview style

2009-07-27 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jul 28, 2009, at 1:50 AM, MA V wrote: Dear Christian, Thanks. It did become enabled after I restarted Bibdesk... My next question is then: if I want a given BibTeX style to show up in the box, in which computer folder do I need to place it? Thanks! Ana The popup only shows the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Having difficulties to export merely the currently selected publications via AppleScript (BibDesk Version 1.3.21 (1525))

2009-07-27 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jul 28, 2009, at 1:54 AM, Andreas Fischlin wrote: Dear Christiaan, Thanks for your attempt to help, greatly appreciated. First problem: You can't write 'file aPath' in a script. The file type in AppleScript is very buggy. It generally should be considered read-only. When you want to

Re: [Bibdesk-users] AppleScript: parse format

2009-07-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jul 26, 2009, at 10:59 PM, Jonas Zimmermann wrote: Hi, I jsut wanted to use a snippet from AutogenerateLinkedURLScriptHook for, well, creating a URL from PubMed (see my script below). It seems the 'parse format' verb doesn't work (anymore) as in the sample. (a) even in a 'tell thePub'

Re: [Bibdesk-users] biblatex: title + subtitle

2009-07-25 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jul 25, 2009, at 7:57 PM, Alex Hamann wrote: Hi, I am using biblatex and thus frequently have a title consisting of the title field and the subtitle field. My issue here is that the crossref option to automagically have a duplication of the title to the booktitle field does ignore the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] How to create new BibTeX types and fields

2009-07-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jul 22, 2009, at 12:45 AM, Helly John wrote: Hi. I can't find anything on the archives about this so hope it is not often-asked previously. I'm new to BibDesk but want to use it to create entries for data files. In Preferences Fields you can add new fields and it looks like you can

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibDesk 1.3.21 behind a Proxy Firewall

2009-06-30 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jun 30, 2009, at 9:17 PM, Samuel Gasster wrote: I recently upgraded from BibDesk 1.3.18 to 1.3.21. I use BibDesk behind our corporate firewall that requires a proxy user ID and password to access the internet. BibDesk 1.3.18 had a window that would open where I could enter that

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Feature requests

2009-06-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jun 23, 2009, at 9:25 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 06/23/09 11:48, Sumit Narayan sumna...@gmail.com wrote: Just a couple of feature request I thought I will push in for debate here: 1. When we add a new PDF to BD by drag-and-drop, we get a new window for entering the details. It

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Feature requests

2009-06-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jun 23, 2009, at 10:22 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 06/23/09 13:04, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 23, 2009, at 9:25 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 06/23/09 11:48, Sumit Narayan sumna...@gmail.com wrote: Just a couple of feature request I thought I will push

Re: [Bibdesk-users] biblatex

2009-06-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jun 19, 2009, at 1:49 PM, Willem Smelik wrote: I understand the latest version has biblatex citation style; but where do I find it? I assume it is a previewtemplate. All the best, Willem This is about copying and dragging. You set this in the Citation preferences. Christiaan

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Search on one field, act on another

2009-06-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jun 14, 2009, at 1:40 PM, Nicholas Cole wrote: On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Christiaan Hofmancmhof...@gmail.com wrote: Well, really the hard part is: how would a script know WHICH address to fill in? Unless you have some very simple situation, you need a human mind for that. The

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Search on one field, act on another

2009-06-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jun 14, 2009, at 1:40 PM, Nicholas Cole wrote: On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Christiaan Hofmancmhof...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] A more general question, perhaps, is could Bibdesk have something like the iTunes interface, where if you select a group of entries you could edit the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Two questions on templates

2009-06-10 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jun 10, 2009, at 5:56 PM, Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote: Hi, Using the latest nightly build (but I see the same with the latest release 1.3.20) I cannot figure out how to properly add a template in the template preference pane ( as in:

Re: [Bibdesk-users] export endnote xml with applescript?

2009-06-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
plays. Apart from that the biggest problem: someone has to spend time on it... Christiaan Chris Lovell On Jun 8, 2009, at 9:01 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Jun 8, 2009, at 3:26 AM, Chris Lovell wrote: Hi all, Is it possible to use applescript to export endnote xml for a given

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Search on one field, act on another

2009-06-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jun 9, 2009, at 4:46 PM, Nicholas Cole wrote: Dear List, I guess the following problem a job for applescript: I need to fill in the address field for the publishers in my list to cope with the modern fad for putting both the place and name of publishers. (Not so long ago this was

Re: [Bibdesk-users] export endnote xml with applescript?

2009-06-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Replies below. On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.comwrote: On Jun 9, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Chris Lovell wrote: Thanks. I asked if it was possible to do this through AppleScript because I'm trying to write an app that will facilitate communication between BibDesk

Re: [Bibdesk-users] release soon?

2009-06-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
If you're not completely confident you could do a dry run of the DiskImage build steps, so you can test it out before committing the last changes. As for the changes to the procedure, the main difference for you is updating the appcast (bibdesk.xml), but that's not too critical because

Re: [Bibdesk-users] SAO/NASA ADS workflow

2009-05-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 26 May 2009, at 3:38 AM, David Nicholls wrote: Works nicely, though it would be useful for me if the cite key and PDF name were as set in Bibdesk. DN The automator action does generate the cite key according to your personal settings. You can do a similar thing for the PDF, using the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] pdf, from Safari to Bibdesk

2009-05-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 21 May 2009, at 5:27 PM, Etienne Roesch wrote: Hi there, I often find myself browsing online for relevant articles and, as much as I like the right-click item Open in Skim.app, I was wondering if something similar could be done for BibDesk, ie Create a new bibitem in BibDesk.app?

Re: [Bibdesk-users] pdf, from Safari to Bibdesk

2009-05-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 21 May 2009, at 10:49 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 05/21/09 13:30, Alex Montgomery a...@me.com wrote: On 2009-05-21, at 10:48 AM, Gregory Jefferis wrote: On 2009-05-21 18:33, Alex Hamann mailingl...@alex-hamann.de wrote: I have to say that I would really like to be able to do

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Google Scholar Problem

2009-05-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Have you set the import option to BibTeX in the Google Scholar preferences? Christiaan On 19 May 2009, at 5:03 PM, jediwhelan wrote: Bibdesk is great. But when i found out the possibility of importing references directly from google scholar (whichs lets face it, is always your first

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Google Scholar Problem

2009-05-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
This is a Google Scholar problem, and the nightlies have a workaround for it. Christiaan On 19 May 2009, at 6:26 PM, Daniel Becker wrote: Am 19.05.2009 um 17:41 schrieb James Harrison: I also see this in 1.3.20. GS results appear in the top pane with Import into BibTeX links visible, but

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Bibliography-specific key generation?

2009-05-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 19 May 2009, at 6:01 PM, Nicholas Cole wrote: My apologies if this has been asked before, but I couldn't see a hint of it despite having a suspicion that I had done so myself. Is it or would it be possible to have a bibliography-specific rule for generating keys, so that two different

Re: [Bibdesk-users] crash (Re: Vote for the next release)

2009-05-17 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Alex Hamann mailingl...@alex-hamann.dewrote: On 17.05.2009, at 12:27, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 17 May 2009, at 1:15 PM, Alex Hamann wrote: On 17.05.2009, at 05:19, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: Hi all The school year is over---meaning I

Re: [Bibdesk-users] crash (Re: Vote for the next release)

2009-05-17 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 17 May 2009, at 5:31 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On May 17, 2009, at 4:53 AM, Alex Hamann wrote: Yep, seems related to the new organization of the column on the left. Going back to other nightlies still led to crashes while last stable release works all right. Did I mention that I am on

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibDesk website

2009-05-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
There was indeed a missing item in the .htaccess file for a short while, that has been fixed. Christiaan On 16 May 2009, at 4:11 AM, David Nicholls wrote: So can I. But it was definitely not there yesterday. DN Di Xiao wrote: Actually as for now, I can see the sidebar. That's really

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Groups pane issues

2009-05-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 16 May 2009, at 7:01 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On May 15, 2009, at 5:12 PM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: With the latest nightly (Version 1.3.20 (1492)) I am seeing a display/ redrawing issue with the groups pane. When I grab the right edge/ border/divider to resize the pane, the little

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibDesk beta

2009-05-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 16 May 2009, at 4:09 AM, Di Xiao wrote: Hi I downloaded the most recent nightly build (05142009), something doesn't work quite right Thanks for these reports, I'll fix them. 1. Customize toolbar doesn't bring out the sheet Stupid AppKit bug, I've filed a bug report with Apple. 2.

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Search by file content is not working

2009-05-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Thanks, that was a stupid error, just forgot to initialize a variable. Christiaan On 16 May 2009, at 4:05 PM, Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote: Hi Eckhard, Same here :-( The message indexing files appears but nothing happens. As you say, it works fine with 1.3.20 Best, Miguel Le 16 mai

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Failed to generate Tex Preview

2009-05-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
This is a TeX error. There's an undefined command \apjs in your data. You may be using a non-standard bibtex style, and need a corresponding tex style file? Christiaan On 16 May 2009, at 5:16 PM, David Nicholls wrote: From what I read, this is not a new problem. I'm using Bibdesk 1.3.20

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Failed to generate Tex Preview

2009-05-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
this has got somewhat OT, but I'd appreciate assistance from anyone who uses SAO/ADS data successfully. It may also help other neophyte Bibdesk users. Regards DN Christiaan Hofman wrote: This is a TeX error. There's an undefined command \apjs in your data. You may be using a non-standard

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Release?

2009-05-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 8 May 2009, at 6:14 PM, Gregory Jefferis wrote: On 2009-05-08 16:23, Adam R. Maxwell amaxw...@mac.com wrote: I'd like to hear some feedback from the PubMed users on the new parser (good, bad, or indifferent). Searching in BD and the DOI lookup should use it, I believe. It's great

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Release?

2009-05-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.comwrote: On 8 May 2009, at 6:14 PM, Gregory Jefferis wrote: On 2009-05-08 16:23, Adam R. Maxwell amaxw...@mac.com wrote: I'd like to hear some feedback from the PubMed users on the new parser (good, bad, or indifferent

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Release?

2009-05-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 8 May 2009, at 6:59 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 05/08/09 09:46, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: I see two journal titles. One is the full title, JT in Medline and Title in XML, and the other is the abbreviated title, TA in Medline and ISOAbbreviation in XML. Apparently

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Sharing bib managed with Bibdesk with non-bibdesk users

2009-05-05 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 5 May 2009, at 11:01 AM, Luc Bourhis wrote: Hi Adam, thanks for your time. 2) Bibdesk writes trailing white spaces which make my version control system complain every single time: trunk/dox/cctbx_references.bib:5: trailing whitespace. +%% Created for Luc Bourhis at 2009-05-04

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Sharing bib managed with Bibdesk with non-bibdesk users

2009-05-05 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 5 May 2009, at 11:46 AM, Luc Bourhis wrote: On 5 May 2009, at 11:19, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On the contrary, my code version system (git for info) is set up to refuse committing anything with trailing white spaces. Actually, please read on… Why on earth would you want to do

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Sharing bib managed with Bibdesk with non-bibdesk users

2009-05-05 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 5 May 2009, at 6:22 PM, Robert Sloan wrote: I have the same issue with sharing with collaborators, and I can answer the question about why they want a minimal .bib file that they can read in an editor. Some of my collaborators are in the 45-60 age range and have been writing papers in

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Abbreviated @STRING

2009-05-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
If you want to include macros from an external file for the TeX preview the simplest way to achieve that is to edit the tex template file (see the preview preferences). Or you can add the macros to the .bst file that you use. Christiaan On 4 May 2009, at 9:06 PM, M. Tamer Özsu wrote:

Re: [Bibdesk-users] EBSCO changes file structure

2009-05-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
The RIS specs explicitly say that references must start with TY - and end with ER - , see http://www.refman.com/support/risformat_fields_02.asp . Perhaps you can point them to that, it's their bug. Christiaan On 4 May 2009, at 9:09 PM, Cloy Tobola wrote: I'm currently using BibDesk

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Adding biblio entries by adding PDFs lose diacritics

2009-05-02 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 2 May 2009, at 9:10 AM, Grant Jacobs wrote: Christiaan Greg, Sorry I'm slow getting back to you on this. Extracting a DOI from a PDF is never fool proof, and moreover some PDFs (scanned PDFs) don't contain text, only images. I realise: I wasn't complaining, but summarising for

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Adding biblio entries by adding PDFs lose diacritics

2009-04-30 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Extracting a DOI from a PDF is never fool proof, and moreover some PDFs (scanned PDFs) don't contain text, only images. BibDesk gets the bibliography information from NCBI using their documented query methods, but this apparently drops diacritics. It seems that they also provide an XML

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Windows Apps

2009-04-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Sure, just look for any app that can read bibtex. Christiaan On 28 Apr 2009, at 11:30 AM, Stephen D. Scotti wrote: Is there an open source windows app that allows you to import a BibDesk database file completely? Stephen D. Scotti ssco...@mac.com

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Is the Custom BibTeX Fields Pane Supposed to Be Scrollable?

2009-04-24 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 24 Apr 2009, at 11:09 PM, Gerrit Glabbart wrote: Hey everybody, in my attempt to adapt BibDesk for Biblatex I want to add a number of new, Biblatex-specific fields as default. I'm having difficulty doing this, though, because the 'Custom BibTeX Fields' Pane in the Preferences has no

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Author keywords in template

2009-04-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
It looks like you have an encoding problem. Text templates should always be saved (and the result to be read) using UTF-8 encoding. You seem to be using a Japanese encoding. The main problem is that this encoding is AFAIK the only encoding that does not include ASCII (which IMHO is a

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Year field has extra data

2009-04-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 12 Apr 2009, at 12:19 PM, Cloy Tobola wrote: The citations I've downloaded from EBSCO for the last month or so have extra data at the end of the year field. Some examples: 2007/12// 2008/07//Jul-Sep2008 2003/// That goofs things up with my APA export templates, which typically

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Year field has extra data

2009-04-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 12 Apr 2009, at 12:19 PM, Cloy Tobola wrote: The citations I've downloaded from EBSCO for the last month or so have extra data at the end of the year field. Some examples: 2007/12// 2008/07//Jul-Sep2008 2003/// That goofs things up with my APA export templates, which typically

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Year field has extra data

2009-04-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
(as below). BibDesk 1.3.20 imports the whole line into the year field. I haven't tried the latest nightlies. BibTex citations from those sites (if available) don't have the problem. Jim Harrison On Apr 12, 2009, at 7:47 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 12 Apr 2009, at 12:19 PM, Cloy Tobola wrote

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Author's name

2009-04-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Hofman) 4. Re: Year field has extra data (Christiaan Hofman) 5. Re: Year field has extra data (James Harrison) 6. Re: Year field has extra data (Christiaan Hofman) 7. Re: Year field has extra data (Cloy Tobola) 8. Re: Year field has extra data (Cloy Tobola

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