Re: [Bibdesk-users] Use Autofile to build tree structure of directories

2011-06-03 Thread Christiaan Hofman
waiting to try the nightly-build from the website. Best, Chao Can't say much without knowing why it crashed. It does work for us, as you can see from the nightly builds. Christiaan On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 2, 2011, at 22:45

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Use Autofile to build tree structure of directories

2011-06-02 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jun 2, 2011, at 22:28, Chao LU wrote: Dear all, I'm a newbie to BibDesk, only playing with it for a few days, but love it so much. It has almost everything needed to build a personal library of academic references, digital books, etc. Many thanks to the developers. Among all the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Use Autofile to build tree structure of directories

2011-06-02 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jun 2, 2011, at 22:45, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Jun 2, 2011, at 22:28, Chao LU wrote: Dear all, I'm a newbie to BibDesk, only playing with it for a few days, but love it so much. It has almost everything needed to build a personal library of academic references, digital books

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Bibdesk very slow in adding references

2011-06-02 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jun 3, 2011, at 1:52, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On Jun 2, 2011, at 16:12, Alexey Gorshkov wrote: 2328 __NSFireDelayedPerform 2272 -[BDSKTypeSelectHelper rebuildTypeSelectSearchCache]

Re: [Bibdesk-users] DOI and URL handling

2011-05-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On May 20, 2011, at 22:31, David Goldenberg wrote: Hi, Is there available somewhere a concise (or even not so concise) description of how best to handle URLs and DOIs with BibDesk and BibTeX? There seem to be multiple fields that can be used for this information, and it is a bit

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Question about Bibdesk to word

2011-05-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
You could use a condition: $authors.@count6?@authors.name.@componentsJoinedByComma/?$authors.@count?@autho...@firstfiveobjects.name.@componentsJoinedByComma/, et al./$authors.@count? Christiaan On May 19, 2011, at 8:10, Colin A. Smith wrote: I just got a paper in PLoS one that was formatted

Re: [Bibdesk-users] @string / changing raw fields

2011-05-17 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On May 17, 2011, at 5:44, Jan Anderssen wrote: Hi again - another question or a potential oddity: I have in my bibtex file: @string{jphil = {The Journal of Philosophy}} Now say I forgot this and entered manually into the Journal field: The Journal of Philosophy My bibtex file

Re: [Bibdesk-users] review of Papers 2

2011-05-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On May 16, 2011, at 16:25, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On May 16, 2011, at 06:55 , Themis Matsoukas wrote: On May 15, 2011, at 8:33 PM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: On May 15, 2011, at 1:13 PM, Themis Matsoukas wrote: Haven't tried nor plan to try papers -- and just looking at the graphics

Re: [Bibdesk-users] secondary sort key for table display

2011-05-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On May 16, 2011, at 22:06, Jan Anderssen wrote: Hi - I'm wondering if there is, or could be, a way to sort the main table by author and year. I realize that it is possible to do this by sorting by year first, and then switching back to sorting by author, but this is not remembered

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Way to make Skim default only in Bibdesk?

2011-04-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Apr 29, 2011, at 14:25, kbostroem wrote: Sorry if I'm stepping into this discussion that lately, but I'm also one of those people with a burning desire for a default-PDF-viewer preference at a transparent place in BibDesk. In fact, I just didn't find this preference although I was looking

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Texshop Citation Autocompletion

2011-04-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
I am not sure precisely which method TexShop uses to search, but if it goes through the same mechanism as the old input manager, it searches the cite key, title, authors/editors, and keywords. Christiaan On Apr 13, 2011, at 18:50, Thorsten Tepper García wrote: Dear BibDesk developers, I

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Linked local files change path

2011-04-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Apr 12, 2011, at 11:43, Pete Crite wrote: Hi, I have some references that have an associated local LyX file (displayed in the right pane). When this file is open, LyX frequently saves backup copies to a local directory. Unfortunately, the reference in the side panel of BibDesk will

Re: [Bibdesk-users] DOI lookup DOI via proxy

2011-04-03 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Apr 3, 2011, at 8:19, Eric Rupley wrote: Hi all -- I note that look-up links to a record's DOI are now added in BibDesk -- in my install, these links open in Safari. Is there a way to (set a preference to) have these automatically open within BibDesk rather than externally?

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Synchronization libraries

2011-03-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Mar 29, 2011, at 10:26, Douglas Stebila wrote: What, if any, is the recommended method for synchronizing BibDesk libraries *and their collection of attached PDFs* between multiple computers? While it's easy to synchronize the actual files -- using a network file system, rsync, DropBox,

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Synchronization libraries

2011-03-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Mar 29, 2011, at 11:21, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Mar 29, 2011, at 10:26, Douglas Stebila wrote: What, if any, is the recommended method for synchronizing BibDesk libraries *and their collection of attached PDFs* between multiple computers? While it's easy to synchronize

Re: [Bibdesk-users] access (copy) text in bottom preview (file format)

2011-03-22 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Mar 22, 2011, at 18:21, aucupo wrote: Hello, I didn´t find info on this issue, therefore I decided to post here: Is it possible to access Text from files (PDF), which are previewed in the bottom preview frame? No. Christiaan If I want to access Text the whole page is selected.

Re: [Bibdesk-users] access (copy) text in bottom preview (file format)

2011-03-22 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Oh, but what you can do is to use Quick Look, Cmd-Y. Christiaan On Mar 22, 2011, at 18:49, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Mar 22, 2011, at 18:21, aucupo wrote: Hello, I didn´t find info on this issue, therefore I decided to post here: Is it possible to access Text from files (PDF

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Release is back on schedule

2011-03-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Mar 14, 2011, at 4:28, Justin C. Walker wrote: On Mar 13, 2011, at 19:23 , Adam M. Goldstein wrote: On Mar 13, 2011, at 6:26 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote: I've been using the 3/8 nightly build on a daily basis. No problems to report, although every time I launch a new version for

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Release is back on schedule

2011-03-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Mar 10, 2011, at 0:58, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: Hello all I have been swamped and have had to put off the release still further. Now that school, etc., have calmed down, I would like to do this release this weekend. People have not been reporting problems with the localizations or

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Testing BibDesk

2011-03-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jan 31, 2011, at 14:11, Christiaan Hofman wrote: The current nightlies should have the localizations enabled, both French and the new German localization, so please test them out. The nightly builds can be found at http://michael-mccracken.net/bibdesk/nightlies/. As for a new release

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Regenerate thumbnails

2011-02-06 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Feb 6, 2011, at 22:22, Justin C. Walker wrote: On Feb 6, 2011, at 12:02 , Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Feb 6, 2011, at 11:00 , Brennon Bortz wrote: Is there any way to regenerate the thumbnails for attached files? It seems like one third of the time I get no thumbnail at all,

[Bibdesk-users] Testing BibDesk

2011-01-31 Thread Christiaan Hofman
The current nightlies should have the localizations enabled, both French and the new German localization, so please test them out. The nightly builds can be found at http://michael-mccracken.net/bibdesk/nightlies/. As for a new release, apart from testing out the localizations, this is

Re: [Bibdesk-users] simple script for

2011-01-25 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jan 25, 2011, at 17:02, enas wrote: Dear list members, I'm trying to implement a simple TextMate command that will open the PDF of a paper that's being cited (and maybe another one that will just show me its title). I'm pretty fluent in TextMate related stuff, but I will need to

Re: [Bibdesk-users] multiple entries to one citation key

2011-01-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jan 19, 2011, at 2:15, Uli Wienands wrote: Dear List, I am new to Bibdesk, but not new to LaTeX friends. In my present project (editing parts of a design report with multiple authors giving me LaTeX sources of their contributions) I have the following issue: We have a number

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Release time?

2011-01-03 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jan 3, 2011, at 17:38, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: Hi everyone! I hope you all had a great New Year's holiday. What an excellent time for a release! I haven't seen too much talk back and forth about bugs, features, etc., with the exception of today's message by Mike M. regarding

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Importing some .ris files from AGU journal citation exports

2010-12-30 Thread Christiaan Hofman
The problem is that DO is not a valid RIS tag http://www.refman.com/support/risformat_intro.asp. In fact, RIS does not define any tag for DOI, which also means that it can be basically anywhere, see e.g. http://support.biblioscape.com/node/1571. I guess ID would be the most appropriate valid

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Encoding double-quotes and accented chars in the .bib file?

2010-12-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Dec 29, 2010, at 19:37, Charles Turner wrote: Hi all- Most of my question seems Bibtex-related, but there's a bit that pertains to BibDesk. My head's a little turned around on this, and hopefully someone here could twist it back: I have a few citations that look like this in

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Need some help with vancouver.bst

2010-12-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Did you read the warning in the log? It says you probably need a \usepackage. You need one to define the \url command, as noted by the error message in the log. Christiaan On Dec 24, 2010, at 1:00, Rafael Cruz wrote: Hi, I'm willing to use vancouver.bst as my BibDesk preview style. Here

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Need some help with vancouver.bst

2010-12-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
at 10:22 PM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: Did you read the warning in the log? It says you probably need a \usepackage. You need one to define the \url command, as noted by the error message in the log. Christiaan On Dec 24, 2010, at 1:00, Rafael Cruz wrote: Hi

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Broken PDF links

2010-12-07 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Dec 7, 2010, at 22:17, Chris Goedde wrote: Hi all, I opened up BibDesk for the first time in a while, and all the links to PDF files are broken. Some point to nothing, but others seem to point to random files on my drive. As far as I know, I haven't moved any files or done anything

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Populating custom fields in default templates via Applescript?

2010-10-31 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Oct 31, 2010, at 20:53, Charles Turner wrote: Hi all- Recent Bibdesk 1.5.3. I've had some incorrectly formatted newspaper entries that I'm now converting over to biblatex-chicago-notes-df format. I added two optional fields to the default article template: Entrysubtype and Date.

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibDesk alias conversion utility

2010-10-30 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Oct 28, 2010, at 17:25, Michael Wild wrote: Hi all Since I have to leave Mac OS X, I'm also forced to abandon BibDesk (which, by the way is a really great tool). Naturally, I want to keep my BibTeX database with the associated PDFs. As useful as these encoded aliases are on Mac, they

Re: [Bibdesk-users] author names

2010-10-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Oct 16, 2010, at 22:24, Oleksandr Huziy wrote: Hello everybody, I have a following question: Is it possible to obtain the list of authors imported in bibdesk, to check or edit if something is wrong? You can get a list of all authors in a document by choosing Author as the group

Re: [Bibdesk-users] author names

2010-10-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
. Christiaan 2010/10/16 Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com On Oct 16, 2010, at 22:24, Oleksandr Huziy wrote: Hello everybody, I have a following question: Is it possible to obtain the list of authors imported in bibdesk, to check or edit if something is wrong? You can get a list

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Non-BibTeX characters in group names

2010-10-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
that they're ignored. And the @ sign is allowed in fields, therefore they're also supposed to be allowed in @comment entries. But we can escape it the way we escape curly braces (which can give problems in @comment entries). Christiaan On Oct 11, 2010, at 13:40, Christiaan Hofman wrote: Strange

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Multiple web groups?

2010-10-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
for the page. Christiaan On 07/Oct/2010, at 19:04 , Christiaan Hofman wrote: Just an idea users may have an idea about. Would it make sense to allow for multiple web group instead of the single fixed web group? The idea then would be that adding a new web group would be similar to search

[Bibdesk-users] Multiple web groups?

2010-10-07 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Just an idea users may have an idea about. Would it make sense to allow for multiple web group instead of the single fixed web group? The idea then would be that adding a new web group would be similar to search groups, through a New Web Group menu item in the Bookmarks menu, and web groups

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Two columns template for the preview pane

2010-10-02 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Oct 2, 2010, at 1:20, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Oct 2, 2010, at 0:28, JiHO wrote: On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:09, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: Everything works perfectly except that changes to an external CSS file are not reflected in the preview pane after a refresh

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Two columns template for the preview pane

2010-10-01 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Oct 1, 2010, at 3:43, JiHO wrote: The build failed last night, and I forgot to report that; there were errors building the QL plugin and some frameworks, IIRC. OK, I downloaded the build from the 28th and tested some modifications with it. Everything works perfectly except that changes

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Two columns template for the preview pane

2010-10-01 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Oct 2, 2010, at 0:28, JiHO wrote: On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:09, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: Everything works perfectly except that changes to an external CSS file are not reflected in the preview pane after a refresh (as are changes to the HTML files, including to inline

Re: [Bibdesk-users] TeX preview styles question

2010-09-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 29, 2010, at 6:47, David Nicholls wrote: In the Bibdesk prefs, there is an option to choose the BibTeX style for the TeX preview. There are a limited number of options in the drop down list. What do I edit to add new styles to this list, and where do I then put the .bst files?

Re: [Bibdesk-users] TeX preview styles question

2010-09-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 29, 2010, at 12:25, David Nicholls wrote: On 29/09/10 7:19 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: You can't add new styles to the list, and there's no need for it. And you put custom styles in a place where your TeX installation can find them, which is d OK, thanks. So the next question

Re: [Bibdesk-users] TeX preview styles question

2010-09-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 29, 2010, at 12:45, David Nicholls wrote: On 29/09/10 8:27 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Sep 29, 2010, at 12:25, David Nicholls wrote: On 29/09/10 7:19 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: You can't add new styles to the list, and there's no need for it. And you put custom styles

Re: [Bibdesk-users] TeX preview styles question

2010-09-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 29, 2010, at 12:55, David Nicholls wrote: On 29/09/10 8:49 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: H. I put it in ~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bst/ which showed up in the kpsepath list. But it's not appearing in the prefs dropdown as an option. Maybe the bst file isn't being seen? Or does

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Convert file links?

2010-09-27 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 27, 2010, at 22:45, Matthias Brennwald wrote: On 23.09.2010 11:16, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Sep 23, 2010, at 8:39, Matthias Brennwald wrote: On 09/21/2010 10:30 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Sep 21, 2010, at 22:04, Matthias Brennwald wrote: Dear all I am

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Two columns template for the preview pane

2010-09-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 24, 2010, at 11:37, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Sep 24, 2010, at 2:11, JiHO wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 00:36, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: I know nothing of the implementation of course, but I imagined that the RTF file was going through a parser of some sort

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Two columns template for the preview pane

2010-09-24 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 24, 2010, at 2:11, JiHO wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 00:36, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: I know nothing of the implementation of course, but I imagined that the RTF file was going through a parser of some sort which replaced the $???/ bits by the appropriate values

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Convert file links?

2010-09-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 23, 2010, at 8:39, Matthias Brennwald wrote: On 09/21/2010 10:30 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Sep 21, 2010, at 22:04, Matthias Brennwald wrote: Dear all I am in the process of switching from Mac OS X to Linux. How can I convert the file links in my BibTeX / BibDesk database

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Two columns template for the preview pane

2010-09-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 23, 2010, at 11:10, JiHO wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 18:51, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: I have few questions: - what are stringByDeTeXifyingString and stringByTeXifyingString supposed to do? Neither of those does anything: when I have latex commands (\textit, \circ

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Two columns template for the preview pane

2010-09-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 23, 2010, at 16:44, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Sep 23, 2010, at 6:15 AM, JiHO wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:38, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: Ok. An I guess DeTeXifying means removing those commands without affecting the output while TeXifying is converting those

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Two columns template for the preview pane

2010-09-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 23, 2010, at 15:15, JiHO wrote: Thanks for the help Christiaan. On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:38, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: Ok. An I guess DeTeXifying means removing those commands without affecting the output while TeXifying is converting those commands

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Two columns template for the preview pane

2010-09-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 23, 2010, at 18:55, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Sep 23, 2010, at 15:15, JiHO wrote: [snip] Finally, in RTFD I can easily include images. In HTML I can easily link to online images. However, adding an image in the templates folder and using a relative link does not work. I would

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Two columns template for the preview pane

2010-09-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 24, 2010, at 0:02, JiHO wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 18:55, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: Ok. An I guess DeTeXifying means removing those commands without affecting the output while TeXifying is converting those commands into their RTF equivalent. i.e.: {\'e

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Two columns template for the preview pane

2010-09-22 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 22, 2010, at 17:55, JiHO wrote: I'm trying to fix some of the hiccups of this template and convert it to html too, in case people prefer that (and because it allows better configuration of links). The files are now on github: http://github.com/jiho/bd-two_columns I have few

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Two columns template for the preview pane

2010-09-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 21, 2010, at 15:24, Andreas Fischlin wrote: Dear Christiaan, Yes, but you need to have editor privileges, which I can give you when you give me your sourceforge user name. While you are at it, could you give me these privileges too, since I would like to make a link there to

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Convert file links?

2010-09-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 21, 2010, at 22:04, Matthias Brennwald wrote: Dear all I am in the process of switching from Mac OS X to Linux. How can I convert the file links in my BibTeX / BibDesk database to a standard URL that will be meaningful on Linux? Matthias -- Matthias Brennwald,

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Two columns template for the preview pane

2010-09-20 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 20, 2010, at 20:17, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: On Sep 20, 2010, at 1:43 PM, JiHO wrote: Hi everyone, For a while, I have wanted a more compact template for the preview pane at the bottom of BibDesk's main window, to fit more information on my 13 MacBook screen. I created a two

Re: [Bibdesk-users] German Translation

2010-09-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 19, 2010, at 0:07, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Sep 18, 2010, at 23:55, Florian Beyerlein wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It may be easier if I do the Localization Manager steps and let you do only the actual localization in the Localizer step, that's

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibDesk + TeX preview with SHELL=/bin/zsh

2010-09-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 16, 2010, at 15:47, Ola Leifler wrote: 14 sep 2010 kl. 17.45 skrev Maxwell, Adam R: On Sep 14, 2010, at 08:26, Ola Leifler wrote: My ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist contained some settings, but even after I remove that file and restarted the Finder, the same thing happens:

Re: [Bibdesk-users] German Translation

2010-09-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 16, 2010, at 22:13, Florian Beyerlein wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for the hint Christiaan! I got it to work with LocalizationManager and accompanying tools. I use the current 1.5.3 release from svn and try to make a translation for the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] copy as Latex

2010-09-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 15, 2010, at 13:40, Miquel Simonet wrote: Dear friends, I just downloaded the latest version of BibDesk. I need to copy from BibDesk to Latex to generate the \bibitem commands in a Latex file. For some reason, that option is not available in my version of BibDesk, Mac OSX (I tried

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Skim for PPC OS X 10.4

2010-09-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
This is also noted on the Skim Wiki. Christiaan On Sep 15, 2010, at 14:11, David Nicholls wrote: To answer my own question, 1.2.7. Works well. DN On 15/09/2010, at 9:59 PM, David Nicholls wrote: I have an old G4 PPC running Tiger which is still surprisingly good, despite its age,

Re: [Bibdesk-users] German Translation

2010-09-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 15, 2010, at 22:40, Florian Beyerlein wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I want to make a german translation for BibDesk. I am trying to follow the guide at http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/bibdesk/index.php?title=BibDesk_Localization I have

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Searching Skim notes in Smart Groups?

2010-09-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 14, 2010, at 3:18, Michael Tauras wrote: Adding the ability to match terms from Skim notes (and even extending Skim's functionality to add keywords / categories to specific notes, and then matching those; or matching Skim note colors) would make the Smart Groups extremely powerful. I

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Problematic BiBTeX record

2010-09-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 9, 2010, at 3:01, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: Indeed, serious thinking in American popular religion must be the most valuable commodity on earth. It certainly seems to be the scarcest. -- Os Guinness, The Gravedigger File On Sep 8, 2010, at 5:08 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Problematic BiBTeX record

2010-09-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 9, 2010, at 16:48, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Sep 9, 2010, at 2:09 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: Perhaps we can just do the old version for strings we know are coming from a DOI (like a Doi field). That's probably the best way to do it, and in that case, all # should be escaped

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Problematic BiBTeX record

2010-09-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 8, 2010, at 18:50, Themis Matsoukas wrote: On Sep 8, 2010, at 11:39 AM, Themis Matsoukas wrote: The citation record shown below gives me several problems that I cannot explain: 1. On the the main bibdesk window, the url (@) is empty, even though the url field contains a valid

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Problematic BiBTeX record

2010-09-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 8, 2010, at 22:00, Themis Matsoukas wrote: On Sep 8, 2010, at 1:40 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: Correction, it does not seem to be related to the # character. It is really a problem in the way we try to escape special characters. Though I don't see why that actually should give

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Problematic BiBTeX record

2010-09-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 9, 2010, at 1:32, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On Sep 8, 2010, at 10:40, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Sep 8, 2010, at 19:27, Christiaan Hofman wrote: 1. Apparently Apple has problems with the fragment separator in the URL (#). Looking at our code, this used to work in the past because

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Problematic BiBTeX record

2010-09-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 9, 2010, at 1:57, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On Sep 8, 2010, at 16:44, Christiaan Hofman wrote: And remember that the whole point of this cleaning is to correct invalid input from the user. It's to correct invalid input from online sources, and DOI in particular. Normalizing

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibDesk analoga on Linux?

2010-09-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 4, 2010, at 12:02, Matthias Brennwald wrote: Dear all I work on Macs and Linux machines (running mainly Gnome). Are there any programs in the Linux / Gnome world analogous to BibDesk on the Mac? Will these play nice with databases created / edited using BibDesk? Any hints or

Re: [Bibdesk-users] bib with missing cite key

2010-08-31 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 31, 2010, at 20:29, Themis Matsoukas wrote: The attached bib, downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ie901407x, refuses to open in bibdesk when double-clicked. It seems the problem is the missing cite key. Nonetheless, if I copy/paste the contents of the file (below)

Re: [Bibdesk-users] relinking files

2010-08-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 28, 2010, at 9:29, David Quinn wrote: Thanks for the suggestion - I didn't see that thread before. Perhaps you can also paste a Bdsk-File field from the .bib file, so we can figure out at least what relative path it expects. This is a sample Bdsk-File Bdsk-File-1 =

Re: [Bibdesk-users] relinking files

2010-08-27 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 27, 2010, at 19:15, David Quinn wrote: Hello, I renamed and moved the folder where I store all my pdf documents. These were previously linked to my bibdesk library. Now, bibdesk can't identify these files and I can't remember how I originally linked these files, or figure out a way

Re: [Bibdesk-users] relinking files

2010-08-27 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 27, 2010, at 20:24, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: I wonder if a warning if the papers folder has been moved/renamed when you close a document would be helpful? You could stash away an FSRef of the folder path when the document opens, and compare with a new FSRef of the folder path when

Re: [Bibdesk-users] using export templates for bibtex

2010-08-25 Thread Christiaan Hofman
That's a bug in this template. The last line should be /$publications rather than $publications/. I've uploaded a fixed version to the wiki website. Christiaan On Aug 25, 2010, at 22:41, Michele Weigle wrote: Hi folks, I'm using BibDesk 1.5.2 on Mac OS X 10.6.4. I'm a new user trying to

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Quits on startup

2010-08-22 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 22, 2010, at 5:51, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Aug 21, 2010, at 7:36 PM, Cloy Tobola wrote: I started with Bibdesk 1.5.2. When that didn't work, I tried 1.5.1 and 1.4. All versions give me the same problem. Crash report below. You'll need to post a crash log from the latest

Re: [Bibdesk-users] custom template: no comma and and

2010-08-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
This has been discussed on this list a few times already. There's no dedicated key for this. You need to use condition tags, for instance something like $autho...@count2? ?$autho...@count? $autho...@arraydroppinglastobject.abbreviatedname.@componentsJoinedByComma/ and /$autho...@count?

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Can't open attached PDFs in Skim

2010-08-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Also, just wondering. What do you cat when you type the following in more .CFUserTextEncoding Terminal.app and hit enter? Christiaan On Aug 18, 2010, at 22:45, Christiaan Hofman wrote: Do you have Skim set as the default for PDF on your system? Then reset the PDF viewer pref in the Default

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Can't open attached PDFs in Skim

2010-08-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
than a fix (but it'll do just fine for what I need, thanks!) my .CFUserTextEncoding is: 0:0 Thanks, Peter On Aug 19, 2010, at 9:41 AM, Christiaan Hofman cmhofman-at-gmail.com |bibdesk-users| wrote: Also, just wondering. What do you cat when you type the following in more

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Can't open attached PDFs in Skim

2010-08-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Do you have Skim set as the default for PDF on your system? Then reset the PDF viewer pref in the Default Fields preferences of BibDesk to Default. Christiaan On Aug 18, 2010, at 19:09, 5wsxmsf...@snkmail.com wrote: Hi, I just started having some strange behavior with bibdesk. If I set the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] external file group, import with PDF

2010-08-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 15, 2010, at 18:54, Jonathan MacCarthy wrote: Hi everyone, I hope you are all well. I'm writing with a question concerning importing from an external file group. I have a remote .bib file and associated PDFs on Dropbox servers. With the public URL to the .bib file, I can

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Send selection via Email in default MailClient

2010-08-10 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 10, 2010, at 21:35, Michael Goerz wrote: Hi everyone, I've set up Mailplane as my default mail client, and this works fine for whenever I click on a 'mailto' link on the web, when I use the Address Book in MacOS, etc. However, when I try to send some references from inside

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Send selection via Email in default MailClient

2010-08-10 Thread Christiaan Hofman
I've added support for Mailplane for tomorrows nightly, please test it out and report back whether it works. Christiaan On Aug 10, 2010, at 23:02, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Aug 10, 2010, at 21:35, Michael Goerz wrote: Hi everyone, I've set up Mailplane as my default mail client

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Send selection via Email in default MailClient

2010-08-10 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 11, 2010, at 0:11, Michael Goerz wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Michael Goerz michaelgo...@gmail.com wrote: I've attached two eml files that resulted from sending through Mail.app. The first one, from earlier today, is pretty broken and has the white-on-white text. Oh, well,

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Upcoming build.

2010-08-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
No objections here, I updated the release notes. Christiaan On Aug 8, 2010, at 4:53, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: I haven't been seeing reports of bugs on the list, and it doesn't seem that there are any major new features still being worked on. I'd like to build the next release. If anyone as

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Export template for x-bdsk URL scheme?

2010-08-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 8, 2010, at 3:54, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Aug 7, 2010, at 6:37 PM, slow down wrote: Thanks for Adam and Christiaan's excellent pointers. The goal here, Adam, is to integrate BibDesk with any rich-text Mac note-taking or journaling app (DevonTHINK, Journler, MacJournal,

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Export template for x-bdsk URL scheme?

2010-08-07 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 7, 2010, at 23:26, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Aug 7, 2010, at 2:15 PM, slow down wrote: Has anyone written any export template for BibDesk that incorporates cite keys hyperlinked with the x-bdsk://citekey URL scheme? I understand why the following code wouldn't work in an RTF

Re: [Bibdesk-users] missing references from a file

2010-07-31 Thread Christiaan Hofman
The reference by itself is OK, so it's probably somewhere before that reference. Perhaps an encoding problem. Are there any messages in the error panel? Christiaan On Jul 31, 2010, at 21:20, Ted Flethuseo wrote: Hi everyone, I am trying to use a bib file that was given to me, through

Re: [Bibdesk-users] applescript question

2010-07-22 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jul 23, 2010, at 1:48, Sasha Cuerda wrote: My apologies for the simplicity of this questions. I often will download citations from various databases (sciencedirect for example). They will be saved as .ris files. What I want to do is create an applescript that I can attach as a folder

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibDesk Preview for non generic styles

2010-07-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jul 22, 2010, at 2:05, Christian Gläser wrote: Dear List Members, i know it's an often discussed problem but it doesnt work for me. I can get the preview only for the generic styles from the pull down list in the Bibdesk preferences, like the abbrv. The help file tells me just to

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Applescripting the Read field?

2010-07-20 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jul 20, 2010, at 19:49, Charles Turner wrote: Hi all- I've poked around a bit and haven't found info on something that seems harder than trivial for Applescripting Bibdesk. I'd like to go through my bibliography and set the Read field to YES for every publication I find that has

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Applescripting the Read field?

2010-07-20 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jul 20, 2010, at 21:11, Charles Turner wrote: On Jul 20, 2010, at 2:54 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: set value of field Read of aPub to 1 Thanks Christiaan- I don't want to pester you with too much stupidity, but only the Pubs that have been Read have Read = {1}, in the BIB file

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Preferences

2010-07-17 Thread Christiaan Hofman
- EXT%f{Extract_Number}0%u0%e} end tell _ I know nothing about the applescript syntax, so your help would be really very useful for me! Many thanks in advance. Best regards, Celine Le 16/07/10 22:56, Christiaan Hofman a écrit

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Copy cite command and attached files

2010-07-17 Thread Christiaan Hofman
What other file's cite key? The cite key is a property of the item, not of a linked file. Christiaan On Jul 18, 2010, at 1:34, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: Hi all I have a BibDesk record that has two files attached. Each of these files has its own cite key. When I use copy cite command

Re: [Bibdesk-users] All file links broken after directory replacement

2010-07-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
I think you should install pyobjc, http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net. I wonder if this is a 10.5 bug. Are there any console logs? Also, is any of the file systems perhaps case sensitive? Christiaan On Jul 14, 2010, at 13:19, Anil N. Hirani wrote: Can you point me to where to get the Foundation

Re: [Bibdesk-users] All file links broken after directory replacement

2010-07-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jul 14, 2010, at 13:34, Christiaan Hofman wrote: I think you should install pyobjc, http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net. Though this should already be preinstalled on your system, even on Leopard. Perhaps you need to change your PYTHONPATH to point to it http://stackoverflow.com/questions

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Citation markup

2010-07-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
thanks, I'll have it fixed in the next nightly Christiaan On Jul 15, 2010, at 0:50, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: Hello all When I ctrl-click on an entry and select Copy Cite Command in the contextual menu, I get ~\(null){citekey} when I paste it into my document. I have \cite and TeX

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Export Abstract to Plaintext File

2010-07-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jul 12, 2010, at 15:06, corpus_info wrote: Hi, I have a collection of 1,926 files most of them have abstracts from PubMed. I want to build corpus to analyze some biological research. My goal is to have a plaintext file for each abstract. I do not need any other data from

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Export Abstract to Plaintext File

2010-07-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jul 12, 2010, at 17:10, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Jul 12, 2010, at 15:06, corpus_info wrote: Hi, I have a collection of 1,926 files most of them have abstracts from PubMed. I want to build corpus to analyze some biological research. My goal is to have a plaintext file

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