Re: [Bibdesk-users] helps with syntax of conditionKey in export templates?

2007-05-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 5/23/07, Adam R. Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 22, 2007, at 16:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have created the template below, but really don't understand the Help docs and can't find analogous code in the default distro templates. If you have suggestions for the help docs

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Z39.50 searches return no results

2007-05-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: A search group doesn't redo the search, until you change the search term. If you hit the search button without changing the search term, it will load more results for the same search (if they are available). Christiaan On 23 May 2007, at 3:42 AM, Derick Fay

Re: [Bibdesk-users] creating new smart group with applescript

2007-05-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
report if it stays unresolved. Do you know if there are any plans to make group creation / manipulation directly accessible through Applescript (and thus avoid UI scripting)? thanks Derick On May 26, 2007, at 4:59 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: My guess is that this is a bug in UI scripting

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Auto complete local-Url based on author year title?

2007-06-06 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Do you know how to write AppleScript? That would be the easiest to do this with. Christiaan On 6 Jun 2007, at 10:06 PM, Ista Zahn wrote: I'm switching to BibDesk, and I want to find an easy way to link a bunch of PDFs that I already have on my hard drive with the corresponding BibDesk

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Apple Design Awards 07

2007-06-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Pity we didn't win, congrats to Papers. I've never tried it myself, so I couldn't compare. It would be nice to have nicer UI and icons for Bibdesk. But none of the present developers is very skilled in creating icons. We're more practically oriented people, who are more interested in using

Re: [Bibdesk-users] help: BibDesk Services not available / not installed?

2007-06-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Application don't register their services themselves, they only advertise them in their bundle information, and BibDesk does. So if you have placed BibDesk in a standard location (like your Applications folder) the system should find them. I don't really know, but there may perhaps be a

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Method for sorting out attachments that aren'tthere

2007-06-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Or easier: set missingFileItems to {} repeat with thePub in publications tell contents of thePub if (local file is missing value and value of field Local- Url is not ) then set end of missingFileItems to thePub end if end tell end repeat Christiaan On 18

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Change Preview Display

2007-07-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 4 Jul 2007, at 4:10 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jul 4, 2007, at 05:08, Alexis Gallagher wrote: I just switched to BibDesk from JabRef, and am greatly enjoying its better performance and more elegant handling of searching and grouping. But there's one feature I'm missing keenly.

Re: [Bibdesk-users] A few questions

2007-07-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 4 Jul 2007, at 5:25 PM, Alex Hamann wrote: Am 04.07.2007 um 17:16 schrieb Ista Zahn: 1) I can't seem to sort groups hierarchically. Is this possible/ planned in future releases? I will leave this to the developers I'm not really sure what you mean by hierarchical sort. But we haven't

Re: [Bibdesk-users] in-text cite and bibliography generation

2007-07-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
What you want is not supported by BibDesk. Also there is no library of templates for standard styles (I'd like for users to contribute to that though). And the template format used in BibDesk is actually too versatile to allow for a simple editor as in EndNote (the template editor would

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Bibdesk in Wikipedia

2007-07-06 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 6 Jul 2007, at 7:11 PM, Michael McCracken wrote: On Jul 5, 2007, at 9:10 PM, Christopher Eliot wrote: Hi - Since nobody's taken up your request to add Bibdesk to Wikipedia's comparison chart of reference managing software, I'm happy to do it, if someone will provide me with the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] handling surname and numbers

2007-07-06 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 6 Jul 2007, at 8:51 PM, Jason Davies wrote: Did you try searching for name in the Help (I didn't...that's just a guess)? See http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/manual/BibDesk% 20Help_2.html#Formatting -Names that's a bit obvious, don't you think? :-) (I was being much more technical

Re: [Bibdesk-users] AppleScripts: Smart Capitalization?

2007-07-10 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 11 Jul 2007, at 1:22 AM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: On Jul 10, 2007, at 7:15 PM, François Briatte wrote: Hello all, Is there a script to smart-capitalize (as in journals: all words except small ones like 'in' -- 'and' -- etc.) text fields, usually titles, in BibDesk? The wiki does not

Re: [Bibdesk-users] AppleScripts: Smart Capitalization?

2007-07-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
capitalize' function, only lowercase, uppercase and title. Christiaan On 11/07/07, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11 Jul 2007, at 1:22 AM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: On Jul 10, 2007, at 7:15 PM, François Briatte wrote: Hello all, Is there a script to smart-capitalize

Re: [Bibdesk-users] accessing Web of Science from Bibdesk

2007-07-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 11 Jul 2007, at 11:09 PM, Rajarshi Guha wrote: On Jul 11, 2007, at 4:55 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: I just checked in support for searching Web of Science in BibDesk, so you can try it now if you compile from subversion, or wait for the next nightly/daily build. Thanks to James Howison

Re: [Bibdesk-users] WoS search issue

2007-07-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Note that this is still a preliminary implementation. Not all available fields are filled yet. I just added a few more. I think it is better to have the full Journal name rather than the abbreviated one. There is no way to map journal names from full to abbreviated. You can change them in

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Too stupid to get autocompletion to work with TeXShop

2007-07-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
You shouldn't highlight it, just leave the cursor at the end of the partial cite key. Christiaan On 28 Jul 2007, at 3:42 PM, Bertolt Meyer wrote: Hello all, Please apologize a stupid question from a LaTeX/BibTeX/BibDesk newbie. I want to use the autocompletion feature of BibDesk in

Re: [Bibdesk-users] auto-generated minimal bibtex files

2007-07-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Minimal BibTeX Database Christiaan On 30 Jul 2007, at 12:42 AM, Matthew Walter wrote: Christiaan, Great, thanks. one more question, though: what is the name of the template for minimal bibtex? - matt On Jul 29, 2007, at 5:46 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: You could use AppleScript

Re: [Bibdesk-users] auto-generated minimal bibtex files

2007-07-30 Thread Christiaan Hofman
:06 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: But note that this is not a template, it's an export type. So in principle you should be able to use the save command for that (with the in and as arguments). Though that might not work, as AppKit has a buggy implementation of the save command (you may need

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.7

2007-08-02 Thread Christiaan Hofman
+1 from me. Found no problem testing the latest changes. Christiaan On 2 Aug 2007, at 4:52 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: Any problems with recent nightly builds? Christiaan made some significant changes to the preview pane recently (check Display prefs), so let us know if there are any

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Bibdesk opening docs in Preview/Skim with unneeded searches

2007-08-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 9 Aug 2007, at 6:07 PM, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote: On Aug 9, 2007, at 7:49 AM, James Howison wrote: On Aug 8, 2007, at 4:15 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Wednesday, August 08, 2007, at 01:12PM, Alexander H. Montgomery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I do a search in BibDesk, then

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Q: How to return to main bib after doing PubMed search?

2007-08-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Choose the Library group from the left table. Christiaan On 10 Aug 2007, at 12:11 AM, Rajeev Raizada wrote: Dear Bibdesk users, I recently upgraded from my old 1.2.x version of BibDesk, and was delighted to see that direct PubMed searching is now built-in to the new 1.3.x version. That's

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Panther AutoFile question/workaround report

2007-08-10 Thread Christiaan Hofman
The problem, I think, is that the file name contains a period, and everything after that is interpreted as the extension. This is .% 20Vierter%20Theil-1821a. Christiaan On 10 Aug 2007, at 5:27 PM, Stephan Kurz wrote: Hello all, using BD 1.2.11 (vv485) on Panther (10.3.9), I started

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

2007-08-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 12 Aug 2007, at 4:40 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: Hi, during the last two days I played around with BibDesk's templates for the first time since quite some time (IIRC correctly the template system was originally a feature request I made), and I came up with several questions. Some of

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

2007-08-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 12 Aug 2007, at 4:47 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: On 12.08.2007, at 16:40, Simon Spiegel wrote: Hi, during the last two days I played around with BibDesk's templates for the first time since quite some time (IIRC correctly the template system was originally a feature request I made),

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

2007-08-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 12 Aug 2007, at 5:31 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: Thanks for the quick reply, some followups. - I think it would be nice if BibDesk remembered the path it stores its templates. I just added a bunch of templates, and every time the file requester would jump to ~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib/

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

2007-08-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 12 Aug 2007, at 11:21 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Aug 12, 2007, at 14:14, Simon Spiegel wrote: On 12.08.2007, at 23:09, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Aug 12, 2007, at 13:58, Simon Spiegel wrote: Perhaps we can define some keys to turn a string into an array (like

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Web of Science search with a special address

2007-08-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 13 Aug 2007, at 7:12 PM, jiho wrote: On 2007-August-13 , at 19:09 , Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 13 Aug 2007, at 7:01 PM, jiho wrote: [...] now I am trying to compile BibDesk but I get and error because I do not have the Developer/Examples software installed and there is a shell

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

2007-08-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
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 R. Maxwell wrote: On Monday, August 13, 2007, at 11:31AM, Simon Spiegel

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

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 amount

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Z39.50 at DDB/DNB (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek)

2007-08-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
AFAICS, the encoding is no problem. We just don't get any record, and we don't use the encoding to download records, only to interpret them. Also the syntax should not be a problem, as it should be able to return USMARC according to the PDF you link to. So I don't know what goes wrong.

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Z39.50 at DDB/DNB (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek)

2007-08-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
It seems indeed that DDB only returns SUTRS. And as in Simon's quotes from me, that unfortunately ends it. Christiaan On 15 Aug 2007, at 1:48 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: On 15.08.2007, at 12:41, Hanjo Iwanowitsch wrote: Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to import information from DDB

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Highlight and Drag in Safari 3.03 (Beta)?

2007-08-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
I also found that it helps to wait a little bit after you press the mouse and before you move it. Christiaan On 23 Aug 2007, at 4:26 AM, Jung-Tsung Shen wrote: I downloaded Safari 3.03 (Beta) yesterday, and found out that now I almost couldn't highlight and drag the bibtex data to

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Best way to merge bib files?

2007-08-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 23 Aug 2007, at 10:20 PM, Chris Goedde wrote: Probably the duplicates are not really duplicates, in that there is some difference. We check whether the standard fields (required, optional, or default fields) are the same to check for duplicates. We don't check the cite key. So it may

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Best way to merge bib files?

2007-08-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 23 Aug 2007, at 10:58 PM, Chris Goedde wrote: On Aug 23, 2007, at 3:41 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: I just did the following: Open optics.bib Add a new External File Group for Bibliography.bib and select it Select all items Choose Database Merge In External Items. It added 4 new

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Best way to merge bib files?

2007-08-24 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Perhaps it's related to encoding or line endings or something. You could try to save copies and merge the copies. Christiaan On 24 Aug 2007, at 9:07 PM, Chris Goedde wrote: Hi all, I still can't seem to merge my bib files without also merging the duplicates, so I'm looking for ideas on

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Best way to merge bib files?

2007-08-24 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 24 Aug 2007, at 9:41 PM, Chris Goedde wrote: On Aug 24, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Goldstein, Adam wrote: Are the records identified as identical if you drag-and-drop them into the same bib file, if you use the select duplicates function from the menus? This also might narrow down the source of

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Best way to merge bib files?

2007-08-24 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 24 Aug 2007, at 10:05 PM, Chris Goedde wrote: On Aug 24, 2007, at 2:49 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: The reason is very simple: I don't have Category as a default field, so on my side this field is ignored for comparison for equivalence, while with your settings the category field

Re: [Bibdesk-users] suggestions for revised file interface

2007-08-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
I'm also not sure about losing the path. I think we should still allow someway to edit the path, though perhaps in a more hidden way (like the Choose and Move menu items in the file button). Also, where would the field names be displayed? I do think that is relevant, as files may play a

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.9

2007-09-03 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 3 Sep 2007, at 7:48 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: Is 1.3.9 ready for release? Quick summary of changes I see from the commits list: - lots of classes renamed (it compiles, so that should be a non-issue) I did a database search for the old class names to confirm they're not referenced

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Bibdesk 1.3.9

2007-09-05 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Are you sure you have 1.3.9 (check About BibDesk)? The BibDesk home page was still pointing to 1.3.8. Christiaan On 5 Sep 2007, at 8:58 AM, Mukund Rangamani wrote: Hello, Thanks for quickly releasing the update fixing the date problem. However, I am still having trouble with 1.3.9, though

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Bibdesk 1.3.9

2007-09-05 Thread Christiaan Hofman
was taken off the page (see Adam's message). Thanks! Cheers, Mukund On 9/5/07, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you sure you have 1.3.9 (check About BibDesk)? The BibDesk home page was still pointing to 1.3.8. Christiaan

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Copy as Template Shortcut?

2007-09-06 Thread Christiaan Hofman
You can add custom shortcuts in the System Preferences. For us there are too many of these items to be able to define shortcuts for these items. Christiaan On 6 Sep 2007, at 3:06 PM, Jonas Zimmermann wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, right now I'm using the Copy

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Copy as Template Shortcut?

2007-09-06 Thread Christiaan Hofman
. Am 06.09.2007 um 15:16 schrieb Christiaan Hofman: You can add custom shortcuts in the System Preferences. For us there are too many of these items to be able to define shortcuts for these items. Christiaan On 6 Sep 2007, at 3:06 PM, Jonas Zimmermann wrote: Hi, right now I'm using

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Bibdesk 1.3.9

2007-09-06 Thread Christiaan Hofman
used iKey instead... On Sep 5, 2007, at 9:18 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: Does that work? I thought that compares the title, which changes all the time. Christiaan On 5 Sep 2007, at 6:08 PM, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote: Interestingly enough, I already have this mapped (cmd-shift-K

Re: [Bibdesk-users] autofile location

2007-09-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 9 Sep 2007, at 3:36 PM, Daniel Becker wrote: Am 09.09.2007 um 14:33 schrieb Derick Fay: I would recommend against a Library autofile default location - Related to that: I have the impression that autofile is a powerful feature that is not used very often by many users? Couldn't BibDesk

Re: [Bibdesk-users] preview of new file UI

2007-09-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 9 Sep 2007, at 4:34 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Sep 9, 2007, at 03:02, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 9 Sep 2007, at 9:39 AM, Daniel Becker wrote: Hallo Adam, I like the new UI for files a lot. Thank you for that work. Thanks... One thing: What I like a lot about autofile

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Bib file from article citations

2007-09-10 Thread Christiaan Hofman
To some extend. If you have an .aux file generated by latex, you can drop it on the main table, and it will select the items referred to in that file. You can than easily export the selected items. Christiaan On 10 Sep 2007, at 1:26 PM, Leslie Morland wrote: Dear List, I plan

Re: [Bibdesk-users] preview of new file UI

2007-09-10 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 10 Sep 2007, at 4:40 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Sep 10, 2007, at 02:49, Christiaan Hofman wrote: I don't think I like the dashed selection and drop highlight, for the first message it's OK. Also it should not accept drop/drags within the view itself, unless it's for rearranging

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Outdated version invoked by TeXShop

2007-09-10 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Obviously you still have an old veresion hanging around somewhere. When it opens, you can find out where it is using the Show In Finder menu item from the Dock menu. Christiaan On 11 Sep 2007, at 12:13 AM, Jung-Tsung Shen wrote: Adam, Just now I was writing a manuscript using TeXShop.

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Outdated version invoked by TeXShop

2007-09-10 Thread Christiaan Hofman
First make sure the disk image is ejected (use Disk Utility to be sure), and then remove the disk image file. Strange it's launching an old version. Christiaan On 11 Sep 2007, at 12:23 AM, Jung-Tsung Shen wrote: Thanks for the fast reply. Yep. I have just done that after sending out the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Using autofile with two machines

2007-09-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
That's not correct. The tilde is there only for display, internally the full path is used. If you uncheck Papers folder location and check Use relative path for Local-Url then the auto-file feature will use a relative path for the Local-Url field (and only then). However, note that this is

Re: [Bibdesk-users] column width does not stick

2007-09-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
That's a bug, we don't update the default widths for the document (only the global preferences) when a column width changes. Try if todays nightly will fix it for you. Christiaan On 12 Sep 2007, at 11:39 AM, Alex Hamann wrote: Hi, I think I saw that a couple of times before but found it

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Using autofile with two machines

2007-09-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 12 Sep 2007, at 4:25 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Sep 12, 2007, at 04:34, Christiaan Hofman wrote: BTW, we may have a big change in the way we handle local files in the (near?) future. And I'm not sure if saving relative paths will be compatible with those changes. I was planning

Re: [Bibdesk-users] booktitle script

2007-09-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Why would you want to use AppleScript for that, it's built into BibDesk. Christiaan On 15 Sep 2007, at 5:09 PM, Alex Hamann wrote: In case you use Apple Script for duplicating the title field to booktitle could you please tell me what it looks like? It is driving me crazy trying to write two

Re: [Bibdesk-users] deleting macros

2007-09-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
It wasn't known, so thanks for notifying. It will be fixed tomorrow. Christiaan On 15 Sep 2007, at 10:04 PM, Matthew Walter wrote: Hi, I apologize for the spam as this is a pretty minor question. I have encountered problems deleting macros via the Database--Macros interface. Attempting to

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibDesk folder opened in .bib format

2007-09-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
In BibDesk you can drop raw bibtex on the detail window to fill in the fields. If you hold down the Option key while you do that it will overwrite fields. We won't add an option to view the raw bibtex source. I don't really see the use from the point of view of bibdesk. All raw string

Re: [Bibdesk-users] autofile local-url

2007-09-24 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 24 Sep 2007, at 7:04 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: In a followup to the recent discussion about auto-file I found myself in the position of wanting to share my bib file with a collaborator. In my bib file every link is stored using a full path like Local-Url =

Re: [Bibdesk-users] adding field using applescript

2007-10-01 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Just set the value of the field, and the field is automatically added. Christiaan On 1 Oct 2007, at 7:51 PM, Karsten W. Jacobsen wrote: Dear Bibdesk-users. I would like to add a new field to a collection of publications using applescript. Could any of you give me a hint how to do that?

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibDesk: Problem with 'compiling' references

2007-10-02 Thread Christiaan Hofman
I think you've misunderstood the meaning of a crossref. It is used to pre-fill related items, not to link items. Christiaan On 2 Oct 2007, at 3:07 AM, Michael Yudelson wrote: Hello Everybody, I'm new to TeX, so please don't judge me for a potentially trivial question. I'm using

Re: [Bibdesk-users] PDF preview

2007-10-05 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Could it be that you've enterded something in the search field? We pass the search string for opening the PDF, and IIRC Preview then zooms in on the result. Christiaan On 4 Oct 2007, at 10:25 PM, Chris Goedde wrote: Hi all, For some pdfs of papers (not all), if I double-click the PDF in

Re: [Bibdesk-users] text editor integration

2007-10-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 8 Oct 2007, at 12:57 PM, jiho wrote: On 2007-October-08 , at 11:38 , Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 8 Oct 2007, at 9:16 AM, jiho wrote: On 2007-October-08 , at 08:38 , Simon Spiegel wrote: Just out of curiosity, what would help the non-LaTeX users the most? People have mentioned

Re: [Bibdesk-users] text editor integration

2007-10-10 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 10 Oct 2007, at 3:41 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: On 10.10.2007, at 15:32, Christiaan Hofman wrote: I've created a little template composer app along these lines. It can be downloaded from the Wiki. Please try it out and say what you think. We might at some point include it in BibDesk

Re: [Bibdesk-users] PDF import problem--nil argument

2007-10-10 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Can you paste the bibtex item for this PDF, in particular the authors and title. Christiaan On 10 Oct 2007, at 7:33 PM, Ingrid Giffin wrote: On 10/9/07 11:15 PM, Adam R. Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 9, 2007, at 21:38, Ingrid Giffin wrote: I'm having trouble with a couple of

Re: [Bibdesk-users] text editor integration

2007-10-10 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 10 Oct 2007, at 8:54 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: On 10.10.2007, at 20:47, Simon Spiegel wrote: That's correct (are there only 15?). It uses the factory settings for the fields. When it is included in BibDesk it would automatically use your changes in the pref though. But you can

Re: [Bibdesk-users] text editor integration

2007-10-10 Thread Christiaan Hofman
with it (comma or period), and where to put it (inside or outside quotes). Simon I tested biblatex on your advice, it is really good. I hope TextMate will support parencite syntax coloring soon. On 10/10/2007, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10 Oct 2007, at 8:54 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote

Re: [Bibdesk-users] template writing question

2007-10-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 11 Oct 2007, at 5:15 PM, James Howison wrote: I'm trying to get a template to do this (for MultiMarkDown and Natbib), with the following two entries: einstein50somegreat: Albert Einstein, Some Other, Some Other and Still More (1950) Some Great Tract. Journal of Examples (10)1:100-205

Re: [Bibdesk-users] TeX coding in Cite Key

2007-10-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 11 Oct 2007, at 6:42 PM, Ingrid Giffin wrote: I would like to use the CiteKey format First Author + Year + Short Title. However, the autogeneration does not filter out coding such as in this title: Review of {\it In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth} by

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Improvements to imports from library catalogs

2007-10-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 11 Oct 2007, at 6:48 PM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: I am starting to work through the cataloging rules in order to improve treatments of imports from z39.50 imports. First, I have a question for Christiaan or some other developer about how the parsers work. Does it work by reading the field

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Improvements to imports from library catalogs

2007-10-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 11 Oct 2007, at 7:43 PM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: On Oct 11, 2007, at 1:03 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 11 Oct 2007, at 6:48 PM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: I am starting to work through the cataloging rules in order to improve treatments of imports from z39.50 imports. First, I have

Re: [Bibdesk-users] TeX coding in Cite Key

2007-10-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 11 Oct 2007, at 8:00 PM, Ingrid Giffin wrote: On 10/11/07 11:32 AM, Adam R. Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, October 11, 2007, at 10:28AM, Ingrid Giffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see. I was using coding from the only online information I've been able to find. Is there

Re: [Bibdesk-users] TeX coding in Cite Key

2007-10-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 11 Oct 2007, at 8:31 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Thursday, October 11, 2007, at 11:25AM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11 Oct 2007, at 8:00 PM, Ingrid Giffin wrote: On 10/11/07 11:32 AM, Adam R. Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, October 11, 2007

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Improvements to imports from library catalogs

2007-10-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 11 Oct 2007, at 8:51 PM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: On Oct 11, 2007, at 2:20 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: snip That parser can in principle determine the indicators, but currently they are ignored. They are not always included and are sometimes inconsistent. I haven't found a real

Re: [Bibdesk-users] text editor integration

2007-10-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 10 Oct 2007, at 8:54 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: On 10.10.2007, at 20:47, Simon Spiegel wrote: That's correct (are there only 15?). It uses the factory settings for the fields. When it is included in BibDesk it would automatically use your changes in the pref though. But you can

Re: [Bibdesk-users] template writing question

2007-10-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 12 Oct 2007, at 5:17 PM, James Howison wrote: On Oct 11, 2007, at 12:03 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 11 Oct 2007, at 5:15 PM, James Howison wrote: I'm trying to get a template to do this (for MultiMarkDown and Natbib), with the following two entries: einstein50somegreat: Albert

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Remove item from group?

2007-10-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 13 Oct 2007, at 7:18 AM, Ingrid Giffin wrote: The Help file says: Using the delete key to delete an item while a group is selected will result in the removal of that item from the present group. To delete the item from the database while a group is selected, use ⌥ -delete. To see

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Nigthlies hang?

2007-10-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 14 Oct 2007, at 10:06 AM, Simon Spiegel wrote: On 13.10.2007, at 19:58, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Oct 13, 2007, at 10:48, Simon Spiegel wrote: there seems to be a problem with the latest nightly which is somehow connected to the templates system. Yeah, it crashes here; looks like

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Nigthlies hang?

2007-10-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 14 Oct 2007, at 3:07 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: - Have you changed something about the syntax? The following snippet Christiaan posted doesn't work anymore: [EMAIL PROTECTED]4? [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]$name/, /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ et al./[EMAIL

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Nigthlies hang?

2007-10-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 14 Oct 2007, at 5:59 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: Sorry, but I still don't get my head around this. What I want to achive is the following: In case of less than four editors, I want Joe Smith, John Doe und Donald Knuth – notice the missing comma before the und which is the only correct way

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Nigthlies hang?

2007-10-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 14 Oct 2007, at 8:00 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: Thanks, fixed now in the source. This works again, thanks for the quick fix. But I still see double entries in both the RTF preview display and in the exported RTF field. I have a template set up for the main page which only contains

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Remove item from group?

2007-10-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 15 Oct 2007, at 12:26 AM, Ingrid Giffin wrote: Hello again, Two questions about citekeys. 1. Is there any way to get the citekey generator to ignore initial The, A, and An in titles? You can use %T[3] to drop words of up to 3 characters. 2. Is there any way to search citekeys?

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Remove item from group?

2007-10-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
. On 10/14/07 4:36 PM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 15 Oct 2007, at 12:26 AM, Ingrid Giffin wrote: Hello again, Two questions about citekeys. 1. Is there any way to get the citekey generator to ignore initial The, A, and An in titles? You can use %T[3] to drop words

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Remove item from group?

2007-10-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Giffin wrote: Yes, that is what I am trying to do, if I understand you correctly. I am trying to search in the citekey field using Find and Replace. But the citekey field does not seem to be available in the Field drop-down menu. Thanks. On 10/14/07 4:36 PM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Selection window blocks the text

2007-10-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
This cannot be solved. The completion list should be visually linked to the item you're completing. Christiaan On 15 Oct 2007, at 7:36 AM, Jung-Tsung Shen wrote: This might be a very minor issue: when pressing the apple key + esc combination, a selection window pops up. However, the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Quotes, JSTOR and Bibdesk

2007-10-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
I don't have a script. And I also do not use JSTOR. But what problem? Christiaan On 18 Oct 2007, at 3:04 PM, Nicholas Cole wrote: Does anyone have a script to fix the problem with quotation marks in bibliographic entries imported from JSTOR? I'll admit that I haven't looked to see if

Re: [Bibdesk-users] text editor integration

2007-10-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 7 Oct 2007, at 11:56 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: The topic of word processor integration comes up periodically, and I'd also like to see more integration with word processor-type programs. However, if wishes were horses, then beggars would ride ;). I explored Mellel integration at one

Re: [Bibdesk-users] text editor integration

2007-10-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 10/18/07 8:28 AM, Adam R. Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 18, 2007, at 06:14, Christiaan Hofman wrote: Just curious (as I'm not intending to work on this either). But what exactly would be needed to be done for integration with Mellel? I personally think that most of the required

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Quotes, JSTOR and Bibdesk

2007-10-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
This happens in BibDesk's HTML-TeX conversion. I don't think this particular transformation should be made, certainly not in this weird way. Christiaan On 19 Oct 2007, at 8:31 AM, Nicholas Cole wrote: The problem still shows up using Jstor's output. Here is a sample. Importing this

Re: [Bibdesk-users] APA Bibliography and Macros

2007-10-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Sorry, my mistake. Try to download it again. Christiaan On 21 Oct 2007, at 6:57 PM, Cloy Tobola wrote: Adam, Thanks for the response. When I use that template and try to export three records (two journal articles and a technical report), I get this: (() et al., et al., 2006 et al.,

Re: [Bibdesk-users] confusing import error behavior

2007-10-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
You should choose Cancel. If you choose Keep Going, it ignores the error and tries to import directly anyway, even if it fails. Christiaan On 22 Oct 2007, at 12:38 AM, Fernando Pereira wrote: I'm trying to import a BibTeX entry from the clipboard. The entry has some fields with undefined

Re: [Bibdesk-users] confusing import error behavior

2007-10-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 10/22/07, Adam R. Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 21, 2007, at 15:52, Christiaan Hofman wrote: You should choose Cancel. If you choose Keep Going, it ignores the error and tries to import directly anyway, even if it fails. I don't think that's the problem. Try this: 1) copy

Re: [Bibdesk-users] confusing import error behavior

2007-10-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 22 Oct 2007, at 1:12 AM, Fernando Pereira wrote: On Oct 21, 2007, at 6:55 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: One more comment: The editing window is really designed to work with files, so this is expected behavior. I respectfully disagree. If BibDesk gives me an option to Edit Data and pops

Re: [Bibdesk-users] renaming local files when autofiled

2007-10-22 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Use the auto file feature. If you don't want to have it done automatically, you can do it manually using the Consolidate Linked Files menu item. You can use a Local-Url format something like %f{Cite Key}%u0.%e There is no script hook for adding items, if that's what you mean with

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Template tags

2007-10-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
The line breaks you see are introduced by the mail program (on either side), you'll have to properly rewrite the template yourself as appropriate. The tags are just placeholderd, so just add a newline at the end of the item, which is just before the last /$publications tag. If you want

Re: [Bibdesk-users] RIS import from Wiley InterScience not working

2007-11-02 Thread Christiaan Hofman
The RIS from that site is incomplete, it misses a TY entry (publication type). And that is precisely what we use to recognize RIS, so BibDesk cannot identify it as RIS. If you can I'd file a bug report with them and ask them to correct it in the future (but don't hold your breath, as

Re: [Bibdesk-users] RIS import from Wiley InterScience not working

2007-11-02 Thread Christiaan Hofman
. Cheers, Bertolt Am 02.11.2007 um 15:20 schrieb Christiaan Hofman: The RIS from that site is incomplete, it misses a TY entry (publication type). And that is precisely what we use to recognize RIS, so BibDesk cannot identify it as RIS. If you can I'd file a bug report with them and ask them

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Formatting of drag-and-drop citations

2007-11-02 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 3 Nov 2007, at 12:24 AM, Ingrid Giffin wrote: Hello, When I drag-and-drop a temporary citation from BibDesk into my word processor (Mellel), a font comes with the text. Is there any way to get unformatted text? Thanks, Ingrid What format are you dragging? If it is Text, the answer

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Duplicates

2007-11-03 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 3 Nov 2007, at 12:12 PM, Holger Frauenrath wrote: On Nov 3, 2007, at 11:47 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: AFAIK there is not simple way to automatically remove duplicates. The problem is that duplicate entries are not necessarily identical entries, so a decision has to be made as to which

Re: [Bibdesk-users] COPAC/Google Scholar search result problem

2007-11-05 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 6 Nov 2007, at 12:08 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Monday, November 05, 2007, at 03:02PM, Jamal Shahin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I seem to be having a problem with two different search capabilities of the latest nightly build of Bibdesk (925). 1. COPAC (z39.50) returns

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