Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.15?

2008-04-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Some messages are about PDFs that have problems, but they're not the reason for the crash. The crash seems to occur when it tries to read gear2.tiff as an XML plist. Why would it want to do that? Christiaan On 15 Apr 2008, at 4:29 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: Hi Miguel, That's a great

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.15?

2008-04-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 15 Apr 2008, at 5:03 PM, Miguel Ortiz-Lombardía wrote: Sorry, my last two messages were too long, I cut the errors down here. Let me know if you want me to re-submit them compressed. Messages stripped of the errors, follow: 2008/4/15, Miguel Ortiz-Lombardía [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wait a

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.15?

2008-04-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 15 Apr 2008, at 6:18 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Tuesday, April 15, 2008, at 09:06AM, Miguel Ortiz-Lombardía [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just opening, the problem appears when opening BibDesk version 20080414 And when I do the same, opening, with BibDesk 1.3.14 there is no

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Updating URL's

2008-04-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 15 Apr 2008, at 11:48 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Tuesday, April 15, 2008, at 02:28PM, Adam R. Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, April 15, 2008, at 02:09PM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As has been said here many times by now, the old URL fields

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.15?

2008-04-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 16 Apr 2008, at 11:55 AM, James Owen wrote: On 16 Apr 2008, at 11:39, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 16 Apr 2008, at 10:26 AM, Miguel Ortiz-Lombardía wrote: Hi James, 4: Last point about the sidebar. I can now see attached files for an item in the main database view, but if I

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.15?

2008-04-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 16 Apr 2008, at 10:07 AM, James Owen wrote: I just downloaded and had a look at the latest nightly - 20080414. 1: In 1.3.14 I had accidentally closed the linked file view, and could not find any menu item to open it up again, had to find the sliders in the item view. However, there now

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.15?

2008-04-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 16 Apr 2008, at 10:26 AM, Miguel Ortiz-Lombardía wrote: Hi James, 4: Last point about the sidebar. I can now see attached files for an item in the main database view, but if I drag and drop a PDF to that sidebar, it does not attach. I have to open the item edit window up, and drag the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] moving to Leopard

2008-04-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 16 Apr 2008, at 3:20 PM, Jacob Scheckman wrote: Hi, I'm a mechanical engineering graduate student, and a daily user of Bibdesk. It is a great product that has made my life unbelievably easy in beginning to write my thesis. I'm finally getting ready to upgrade to Leopard, but I want to

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Updating URL's

2008-04-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 16 Apr 2008, at 2:48 PM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: On Apr 15, 2008, at 5:28 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Tuesday, April 15, 2008, at 02:09PM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Adam M. Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to add

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.15?

2008-04-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 16 Apr 2008, at 7:47 PM, James Howison wrote: Thanks Christian, On Apr 16, 2008, at 1:00 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: First, be aware that URL handling has changed. In the past, sending an open location apple event to BibDesk would just forward it to the system. Now, as BibDesk

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.15?

2008-04-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
will look into the localization requirements in the wiki. Thank you very much! Regards, Miguel 2008/4/15, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 15 Apr 2008, at 6:18 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Tuesday, April 15, 2008, at 09:06AM, Miguel Ortiz-Lombardía [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Using BibDesk search with cite in TextMate

2008-04-20 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 20 Apr 2008, at 11:36 AM, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:25:37 +0200 Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20 Apr 2008, at 9:15 AM, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Niels Kobschaetzki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2008

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.15?

2008-04-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
We use that as the default when dragging template or tex or something. We need to display something representing the dragged items. As we don't know what the template does, displaying the templated output could be too big and possibly too slow. So that's not a bug. Christiaan On 21 Apr

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.15?

2008-04-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 21 Apr 2008, at 7:58 PM, James Harrison wrote: On Apr 21, 2008, at 12:57 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: We use that as the default when dragging template or tex or something. We need to display something representing the dragged items. As we don't know what the template does, displaying

Re: [Bibdesk-users] New user question

2008-04-25 Thread Christiaan Hofman
You're missing the @pubtype{ opening part of the item. That is very crucial for bibtex. Christiaan On 25 Apr 2008, at 8:07 AM, Michael Chanan wrote: My thanks to Adam and Ingrid for their replies to my query. I now have a text file which looks like this: Author = {Ukadike, Nwachunkwu

Re: [Bibdesk-users] texshop insert citations

2008-04-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 28 Apr 2008, at 3:51 PM, Jaime Mejias wrote: I am using texshop 2.15 on my macbook pro. Any script available to insert citations from a bibtex file? or linking texshop to bibdesk? Thanks Jaime You can try and install the input manager, located in BibDesk.app/

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.15?

2008-04-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Not really. Most changes were fixes of last minute bug reports and improvements to accessibility. I hope the crasher Alex reported about editing fields was fixed, it was a bit a shot in the dark as I couldn't reproduce it. Christiaan On 28 Apr 2008, at 6:28 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.15?

2008-04-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 10.5 you single click the selected row to edit (click once to select, wait for at least the double-click time, and click again). This has nothing to do with BibDesk and everything with Leopard. Christiaan On 28 Apr 2008, at 9:05 PM, Alex Montgomery wrote: I haven't had a problem with

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.15?

2008-04-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 29 Apr 2008, at 11:18 AM, Alex Hamann wrote: just an observation with today's nightly: in the preview window switched to details There's no details in the current nightly. Do you mean some default template preview? I see two little parenthesis after the titles. They are small and

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.15?

2008-04-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 29 Apr 2008, at 12:47 PM, Alex Hamann wrote: Am 29.04.2008 um 11:59 schrieb Christiaan Hofman: On 29 Apr 2008, at 11:18 AM, Alex Hamann wrote: just an observation with today's nightly: in the preview window switched to details There's no details in the current nightly. Do you mean

Re: [Bibdesk-users] [ANN] BibDesk-1.3.15

2008-05-01 Thread Christiaan Hofman
The Details preview does not exist anymore, it has been completely replaced by template based previews. the default template does not include the skim notes. If you want them you'll have to modify a default template or add a new one. Christiaan On 1 May 2008, at 7:16 PM, Daniel Loranz

Re: [Bibdesk-users] [ANN] BibDesk-1.3.15

2008-05-01 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 1 May 2008, at 8:08 PM, James Harrison wrote: On May 1, 2008, at 1:26 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: The Details preview does not exist anymore, it has been completely replaced by template based previews. the default template does not include the skim notes. If you want them you'll have

Re: [Bibdesk-users] restrict side-pane to bottom half?

2008-05-01 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 1 May 2008, at 9:00 PM, James Howison wrote: Is there any way to have the side-pane (that for me shows the file thumbnails) sit at the side of the bottom-pane (for me the details section), rather than extending all the way up beside the table view? No. I'd like to have more space to see

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.16?

2008-05-02 Thread Christiaan Hofman
+1 from me. Christiaan On 2 May 2008, at 4:40 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: I've gotten half a dozen exception reports due to the preference bug in the French localization, so I'd like to get 1.3.16 out early next week before any new features start creeping in. If you've noticed any other

Re: [Bibdesk-users] recommended way to add Doi?

2008-05-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 5 May 2008, at 1:38 AM, James Howison wrote: I just added Doi as a default field in my library. Quite a few references already had it. I created a new reference and copied in a value for the Doi field in the Edit window. I was surprised that it didn't show up in the Files section,

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Incorrect encoding warning (v.1.3.16)

2008-05-07 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 8 May 2008, at 12:28 AM, Jung-Tsung Shen wrote: I downloaded the latest version v. 1.3.16 to replace v. 1.3.14 just now. Every time I opened the program, a warning message popped up, saying Incorrect encoding The document will be opened with encoding Unicode (UTF-8), but it was

Re: [Bibdesk-users] What is your workflow?

2008-05-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 8 May 2008, at 4:44 PM, James Owen wrote: On 6 May 2008, at 20:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi There, I am sorry to bother you, but I found myself rather lost when using Bibdesk. I truly love it, and I am physicist/chemist using BibTeX for quite some time, but I am fairly new to mac

Re: [Bibdesk-users] New to BibDesk

2008-05-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 8 May 2008, at 5:12 PM, Josh wrote: Hi, my name is Josh, and I just moved from Linux to MacOSX Leopard. Before I used Jabref, but BibDesk just seems to a much better choice. Having a large bibtex file already, I had Jabref automatically generate my bibtex-keys. Let me show the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] New to BibDesk

2008-05-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 8 May 2008, at 10:32 PM, Josh wrote: Hi Christiaan, thanks for the quick reply. 1. Can I convince BibDesk not to use the - which is undesirable with the editor that i use. Autocompletion only works until the end of a word, not including - No, that's not supported. All the rules are

Re: [Bibdesk-users] What is your workflow?

2008-05-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 9 May 2008, at 12:14 AM, Robin wrote: On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 7:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi There, I am sorry to bother you, but I found myself rather lost when using Bibdesk. I truly love it, and I am physicist/chemist using BibTeX for quite some time, but I am fairly new

Re: [Bibdesk-users] New to BibDesk

2008-05-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 9 May 2008, at 12:55 AM, Josh wrote: Hi Christiaan, Hi Maxwell, first of all, you were right, the T[0]3 worked, had only tried T[0]. then, concerning the script. i will do so. there is a nice Perl-BibTeX package with which i have some experience already. but before writing a script,

Re: [Bibdesk-users] What is your workflow?

2008-05-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 9 May 2008, at 10:17 AM, James Owen wrote: However, for some reason, BibDesk is no longer putting the contents of the doi: field into the Doi: field in my bibtex archive. It used to, before 1.3.15. is there some problem with case sensitivity? If I added a doi field as well as a Doi

Re: [Bibdesk-users] New to BibDesk

2008-05-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 9 May 2008, at 10:56 AM, Josh wrote: Welcome to Macintosh :). In this case, you have a legitimate problem with thanks :) never thought that it would get me hocked so fast. especially after working on linux for more than a decade. the dash (which sounds like a bug in vim). Be

Re: [Bibdesk-users] preferences for preview pane?

2008-05-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
The font is determined by the template used by the preview. So you can edit the template file, just making the font larger. To edit the template file, go to the template preference, click the triangle in front of the template name you want to change to expand, and double click the file

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.17?

2008-05-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
the correct help book name. So everything is setup correctly. So that should be -1, unfortunately. Christiaan Please, keep suporting X.4 :-) not many chances to upgrade my little iBook G4 to X.5... Best regards, Miguel 2008/5/11 Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anyone using the French

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.17?

2008-05-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
French localization, help works, so it's as you say, a problem with this localization. Sorry not to have checked before. Cheers, Miguel 2008/5/11 Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11 May 2008, at 12:55 PM, Miguel Ortiz-Lombardía wrote: I use the French localization on OS X.4.11

Re: [Bibdesk-users] small change for wiki useability

2008-05-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Unfortunately PHP is provided to us by SourceForge, the only thing we can do is file enhancement requests to upgrade to PHP 5. Same for SQL. Christiaan On 13 May 2008, at 8:48 PM, Rob Rye wrote: In my experience, the wiki upgrade itself is indeed very easy. I just checked your version

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Fwd: Black square appearing sometimes

2008-05-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
This is strange, and I cannot reproduce it. Is this on Tiger? It could be a system bug. The spinner overlay should automatically resize with the preview area (and it does os for me). Christiaan On 13 May 2008, at 8:41 PM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: A small black square or line sometimes

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Collecting citations from aux file broken?

2008-05-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
The .aux file has all kinds of other commands in between the \bibcite ones, and bibdesk does not like that. I just changed that so it will just ignore those lines. Christiaan On 14 May 2008, at 12:51 PM, jiho wrote: Hello all, This thread on the mailing list

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibDesk Integration with Microsoft Word

2008-05-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Thanks Colin, I'm not using Word myself, but I know more users would find this helpful! Would you want to link this on the BibDesk Wiki? Christiaan On 14 May 2008, at 7:37 AM, Colin A. Smith wrote: With no other reference managers currently supporting Microsoft Word 2008 (to my knowledge),

Re: [Bibdesk-users] votes on 1.3.17?

2008-05-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
everything should be fine. I updated the release notes. Christiaan On 15 May 2008, at 12:31 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: Is everything (still) in shape for a release? My hotel has a nice wireless connection, so this seems like a good time to do it.

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibDesk Integration with Microsoft Word

2008-05-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
It seems to me you can just use another template. You can write a citation template in the template editor. It does not allow you to export as .doc, but you can either create a .doc template and simply paste the result of a plain text template in it, or you could convert a rich text

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Download bibtex from Spires

2008-05-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 16 May 2008, at 2:03 PM, Mukund Rangamani wrote: Hello, I have been using Christiaan Hoffman's script to download bibtex data for arxiv eprints. Since v1.3.15 (I think) the script Download Bibtex returns the following error. Error: 712. Failed to change BibTeX info for 0805.2261. Cannot

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Download bibtex from Spires

2008-05-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Are you sure it's giving you an error 712? I don't see any reference to a theFile variable in that block. Christiaan On 19 May 2008, at 8:57 AM, Mukund Rangamani wrote: Dear Christiaan, Thanks! I tried to change the script as you suggested below, and it works fine when I have just the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] SPIRES support in BibDesk

2008-05-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
There are no plans in this direction. Last time I checked they did not have a service we could use. Christiaan On 21 May 2008, at 9:51 AM, Tae-Won Ha wrote: Hi, is there any plan to support SPIRES directly in BibDesk? Ciao, Tae -- http://www.th.physik.uni-bonn.de/people/tha/

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Simplyfying Template setup

2008-05-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 21 May 2008, at 3:53 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: Hi, recently I fiddled again with my templates. Much kudos from me, BibDesk's templating system is now among the most powerful of any software. It certainly beats Endnote et al. in terms of fexibility. There's just one area which I think

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Simplyfying Template setup

2008-05-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 21 May 2008, at 7:03 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: On 21.05.2008, at 16:57, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 21 May 2008, at 3:53 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: Hi, recently I fiddled again with my templates. Much kudos from me, BibDesk's templating system is now among the most powerful of any

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Simplyfying Template setup

2008-05-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 21 May 2008, at 7:18 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On 05/21/08 10:03, Simon Spiegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21.05.2008, at 16:57, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 21 May 2008, at 3:53 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: [...] In a perfect world, adding a template would already set up BibDesk

Re: [Bibdesk-users] nightly build broken

2008-05-22 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Apparently it doesn't have a binary. But I have no problem with the current SVN, and no changes have been made since you build the last nightly. So perhaps a problem during uploading. Christiaan On 22 May 2008, at 3:27 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: The last nightly build weighed in under 6MB,

Re: [Bibdesk-users] preferences for preview pane?

2008-05-22 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 22 May 2008, at 10:06 PM, M A wrote: On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Adam R. Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 9, 2008, at 7:51 AM, M A wrote: How do I set preferences for what is shown in the preview pane (ie the part of the window below the table of all my publications)?

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Simplyfying Template setup

2008-05-22 Thread Christiaan Hofman
to this discussion so I hope I am not missing the point. -Adam On May 22, 2008, at 4:57 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 22 May 2008, at 9:38 AM, Simon Spiegel wrote: I know that the template doesn't contain this information – yet. But how about putting the template files and a plist file

Re: [Bibdesk-users] three small feature requests

2008-05-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 23 May 2008, at 3:27 PM, Derick Fay wrote: (each based on Apple UI features) 1) add Previous and Next buttons to the dialog for viewing a single record, as in iTunes -- convenient when it's necessary to manually edit a bunch of records We used to have these, but they were removed with

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Styles v Templates

2008-05-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 26 May 2008, at 12:19 PM, Timothy Roes wrote: Dear all, I read the manual but still don't get what the difference is between using Templates and using Styles. I read Styles are really hard to develop, so I was wondering how to accomplish the following: This has been answered by Simon.

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Bibdesk-users Digest, Vol 25, Issue 28

2008-05-27 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 27 May 2008, at 1:28 AM, Derick Fay wrote: 2) change (or provide the option to change) the font for displaying # of records in a group to the font used by Mail.app for unread message #s -- it's slightly wider, with fewer serifs. It uses the same font as the text, but a bold

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Download bibtex from Spires

2008-05-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Thanks, I've made these extra fixes to the scripts, they're available from the Wiki. I did not change the BibTeX string problem, as that is really a BD bug that has been fixed in the latest nightlies. So if you want to use the scripts you should use a recent nightlies or patch it yourself

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Download bibtex from Spires

2008-05-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Another hint: the latest nightly have support for Spires in the Web group. Just search in Spires, and the matches will be ready for one-click import. Christiaan On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, I've made these extra fixes to the scripts

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Download bibtex from Spires

2008-05-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 29 May 2008, at 12:04 AM, Steuard Jensen wrote: Adam M. Goldstein wrote: I'll try to answer this before Christiaan gets to it: My thanks! First, select the web group that appears automatically in the left- side groups pane in the main view. This cleared up confusion #1 for me (I'd

Re: [Bibdesk-users] changing requirements for NIH

2008-06-01 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 1 Jun 2008, at 8:35 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On May 31, 2008, at 11:12 AM, Simon Spiegel wrote: A followup: As I said, I don't know the details of the APA style, but from a first glance, the examples I saw on the web don't look dramatically different from biblatex's authoryear-comp

Re: [Bibdesk-users] ignoring book series in bibliography

2008-06-03 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 3 Jun 2008, at 10:03 PM, Richard Davis wrote: I have a bib file with many book entries including a 'series' field. I wish to keep this field and the information that it contains, but I do not wish the book series to appear in my bibliography. In my preferences 'series' is neither

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Template question : French bibliographical style

2008-06-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 12 Jun 2008, at 9:02 PM, Sergio MORA wrote: Dear members, I need to export my bibliographical database into the French style of citations, mainly the ISO 960 style (called also AFNOR Z 44-005). The output is the following (example for a book) : GUIMELLI Christian. Structures et

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Pubmed results and scripting externa searches

2008-06-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 13 Jun 2008, at 2:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I was studying the manual and the wiki but couldn't find an answer so far. Is it possible to get more than 50 Pubmed results at once in Bibdesk? Yes, just hit the Search button if there are more results. It's mentioned in

Re: [Bibdesk-users] customized isi filtering

2008-06-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 14 Jun 2008, at 12:17 AM, Craig Maloney wrote: Hi all. (Developers: great product...) I really like the fact that I can drag .isi files from web of science into the bibdesk pane and it will automatically convert to bibtex and generate a key. BUT there are some older W.O.S. database

Re: [Bibdesk-users] study group authors

2008-06-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
The Author field is interpreted by bibtex as an author name, and formatted according to that interpretation. In short: the output you get is correct, it's your expectations that are wrong. If you want to pass a string as formatted as an author, you should put it in an extra pair of braces.

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Poll: Organising your papers

2008-06-17 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 17 Jun 2008, at 11:47 PM, James D. Brenton wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: [snip] One folder (with lots of subfolders) for all papers (like iTunes does) and my custom auto file format string is: %p1/%Y/%T5 %f{Cite Key}%u5%e Is there any way to rename pdfs to

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Poll: Organising your papers

2008-06-17 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Can you send me a sample of one of your .aux file off list? The format of this files is not documented and apparently varies. I just fixed it for some kind of mess that it could contain, but that fix should not affect .aux files for which it used to work. Christiaan On 18 Jun 2008, at

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Poll: Organising your papers

2008-06-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 18 Jun 2008, at 5:29 AM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: On Jun 17, 2008, at 7:41 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: OK, and that one has never worked. You're apparently using some special style, not the default way to write bibliographies. Christiaan On 18 Jun 2008, at 1:33 AM, Adam M. Goldstein

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Fwd: Votes on 1.3.18

2008-06-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
, and let developers know about hang-ups, beach-balling, unexpected behaviors, etc., etc.. Thanks for your assistance with BibDesk testing! -Adam On Jun 17, 2008, at 5:34 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: I was waiting for a confirmation that the fix for the hang that recently was reported works

Re: [Bibdesk-users] syntax error

2008-06-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
And of course there's nothing anyway can say other than you obviously have invalid bibtex based on this info. You can look at the bibtex source and try and fix it yourself by double-clicking the entry in the error panel. Christiaan On 19 Jun 2008, at 5:51 AM, James Howison wrote: Just to

Re: [Bibdesk-users] search group z39.5 connections not working, urls are fine....

2008-06-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
I guess your local firewall does not allow traffic through the ports used by z39.50 (like 7090 for LOC). If you can't control the firewall (or ask for ports like these to be opened) you may have to use your proxy. BD has no UI to set a proxy, but you can set it by hand. 1. save a search

Re: [Bibdesk-users] search group z39.5 connections not working, urls are fine....

2008-06-20 Thread Christiaan Hofman
it in various locations. Christiaan Anyway, time, motivation etc. is limited, and its freeware, yes i understand. Shango On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20 Jun 2008, at 8:39 AM, Shane Eastwood wrote: The Bookends settings for z39.50

Re: [Bibdesk-users] crash with nightly and skim-agent

2008-06-22 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 22 Jun 2008, at 9:16 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jun 22, 2008, at 11:39 AM, James Howison wrote: I had a system meltdown yesterday so am reinstalling everything on a new computer. Joy, oh joy. I just installed BibDesk latest nightly and started it up. I got lots of messages

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Fwd: Votes on 1.3.18

2008-06-22 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Wait for now, -1 from me, till we solve the skim notes problem reported by James. Christiaan On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I didn't hear about it, so guess it's OK. I don't see the bug now (and I could reproduce it before the fix). So +1

Re: [Bibdesk-users] crash with nightly and skim-agent

2008-06-22 Thread Christiaan Hofman
. Christiaan On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, James, what OS version do you run? I just saw that we're building the skimnotes tool for 10.5 only. Christiaan On 22 Jun 2008, at 8:39 PM, James Howison wrote: I had a system meltdown yesterday so am

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Fwd: Votes on 1.3.18

2008-06-27 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Thanks, fixed in the source. Christiaan On 28 Jun 2008, at 12:27 AM, Alex Montgomery wrote: Whoops, just found a regression. The following AppleScript used to work in 1.3.17, doesn't in the nightly build: tell application BibDesk set thePublications to the selection of document 1

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Create bib file including used pubs in a document

2008-07-05 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 5 Jul 2008, at 6:10 PM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: This is possible, but I don't just now remember exactly how to do it, and a quick search of the help file didn't result in any entries obviously about this. It was discussed recently on the list so browse the archives from last month and

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Consolidating my Bibliography Chaos

2008-07-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 9 Jul 2008, at 2:52 PM, Stephan Kurz wrote: Dear all, I have been using BibDesk for quite a while now (AFAIR since release 0.73), creating a lot of .bib files that cover pieces of my academic work (one .bib file per article). That's longer than I've used it. These files are also

Re: [Bibdesk-users] AppleScript question

2008-07-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
This looks like a bug in the last release that was fixed a while ago. Try a recent nightly. Christiaan On 13 Jul 2008, at 12:13 AM, Brian wrote: I'm trying to use Greg Landweber's AppleScript to extract a BibTeX citation from MathSciNet to BibDesk v. 1.3.17. This worked (once I made some

Re: [Bibdesk-users] template encoding

2008-07-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 13 Jul 2008, at 12:43 PM, Alex Hamann wrote: Hi, playing around with the export templates I ran into the following problem: the default rtf export template does not respect german Umlauts. I tried to change the bib-file's encoding from UTF-8 to ISO Latin 1 and Mac Roman but still the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] template encoding

2008-07-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
that not to be UTF-8-safe. Christiaan The editor I copied the export into has UTF-8 set as default. I have reset the standard templates to make sure I have not modified it in any way. Cheers, Alex Am 13.07.2008 um 13:02 schrieb Christiaan Hofman: On 13 Jul 2008, at 12:43 PM, Alex Hamann wrote: Hi

Re: [Bibdesk-users] template encoding

2008-07-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 14 Jul 2008, at 10:55 AM, Alex Hamann wrote: Am 14.07.2008 um 00:00 schrieb Adam R. Maxwell: On Jul 13, 2008, at 2:51 PM, Alex Hamann wrote: Ok, let's sort this out: I save all files in Utf-8 and have character conversion disabled. I have modified the TeX-previes style by adding

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Wikipedia citation

2008-07-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Here's an attempt. I haven't tested it, and it could well be improved. Christiaan On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not that I know, but it should be pretty easy to write. Christiaan On 14 Jul 2008, at 11:15 AM, Tobias wrote: Hi

Re: [Bibdesk-users] protecting groups

2008-07-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
No, but you can undo it (unless it's a search group). Christiaan On 16 Jul 2008, at 11:05 PM, Rick Kirian wrote: Hi, Quick question: Is there is a way to protect groups from being accidentally deleted with the delete button? A confirmation dialog would be perfect. Thanks, Rick

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibTeX buffer size

2008-07-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
This is not something from BibDesk, as this does not have a size limit. As the warning says, it's a warning from bibtex, probably coming from a tex preview. AFAIK this size limit of bibtex is fixed, you cannot increase it. Christiaan On 18 Jul 2008, at 2:14 AM, Tobias wrote: Hi, my

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Seperating multiple Authors with the german und

2008-07-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
No, the and is part of the bibtex syntax. Christiaan On 18 Jul 2008, at 5:23 PM, Alexander Tscheulin wrote: Hello! Is there a way to seperate multiple Authors with sth. else than and? In my case this would be the german und? Cheers, Alex

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Seperating multiple Authors with the german und

2008-07-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
found was this @componentsJoinedByCommaAndAnd but no clue how to change the last seperator or the language. Alex Am 18.07.2008 um 18:52 schrieb Christiaan Hofman: You can do this using collection and condition templates. This basically allows you to export in any format and any separator

Re: [Bibdesk-users] CVS AppleScripts

2008-07-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Thanks, I've included a link to your web page on the Wiki. See if it's accurate. Christiaan On 26 Jul 2008, at 4:21 AM, Douglas Stebila wrote: I have developed some AppleScripts that allow you to perform CVS operations in BibDesk; I keep my main bibliography file in CVS and wanted to be

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Can not rename new template

2008-07-26 Thread Christiaan Hofman
click-wait-click Christiaan On 26 Jul 2008, at 2:07 PM, Karl-Werner Lorenz wrote: Hi, I am new to this mailing list. I am trying to add a new general template via the preferences menu of Bibdesk as decribed on the website. But after adding a template via the plus-button

Re: [Bibdesk-users] obscure error: possible runaway string started at line

2008-07-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 28 Jul 2008, at 4:08 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jul 27, 2008, at 2:11 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: I also don't see anything wrong. Also, I have no problem opening a file with the pasted item. Can you send me the full .bib file off list? BTW, you see this error in the error panel

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Skim, failed to reassemble attribute value on notes

2008-07-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 28 Jul 2008, at 12:36 PM, Etienne B. Roesch (episto) wrote: Hi, I just updated Skim, thanks to the automatic update check, but apparently the new version cannot read the notes I've included in my pdfs, yielding to a message box saying that it failed to reassemble attribute value.

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Skim, failed to reassemble attribute value on notes

2008-07-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Thanks Etienne, the problem you see has been fixed in 1.1.10. It is still present in the latest release of BibDesk though, so support for Skim notes will be broken there. That's less critical though as BibDesk only reads them. Christiaan On 28 Jul 2008, at 1:25 PM, Etienne B. Roesch

Re: [Bibdesk-users] obscure error: possible runaway string started at line

2008-07-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 28 Jul 2008, at 3:59 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jul 28, 2008, at 2:13 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: Yes, I see the warning now. Should be harmless. I inserted the newlines for saving to avoid long lines. The base64 parser in the Omni frameworks ignores garnage characters like

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Firewall settings for sharing?

2008-07-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
AFAIK, that's unfortunately correct. Christiaan On 29 Jul 2008, at 4:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am still using Tiger. Does this mean I cannot use this feature without upgrading? -- Original message -- From: Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Sparkle?

2008-07-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 29 Jul 2008, at 5:25 PM, Tony | Zearin wrote: Hi, Christiaan Hofman wrote: The answer in the tracker: perhaps when Sparkle gets to a bug free stable release vesion. That doesn't exist yet, but Andy is working on it. Christiaan Whoa, really?! I have tons of software that uses

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Path implications when sharing bib files with Bdsk-File-1 entries

2008-07-31 Thread Christiaan Hofman
To be precise, it's a base64 encoded (keyed) archived dictionary containing a relative path and a file alias (an alias stores a full path and a file ID). It is designed to support a large range of storage procedures, as it can find a file by relative path, absolute path, and file ID (in

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Skim, failed to reassemble attribute value on notes

2008-07-31 Thread Christiaan Hofman
. Roesch (episto) wrote: Ok, thanks! Le 28 juil. 08 à 15:32, Christiaan Hofman a écrit : Thanks Etienne, the problem you see has been fixed in 1.1.10. It is still present in the latest release of BibDesk though, so support for Skim notes will be broken there. That's less critical though

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Skim, failed to reassemble attribute value on notes

2008-08-01 Thread Christiaan Hofman
: Interestingly, Skim-notes content shows up in my copy of BibDesk (latest v.) alright. Greetings, Rolf Am 31.07.2008 um 15:04 schrieb Etienne B. Roesch (episto): Oh, ok, we'll see. Thanks for the feedback! Le 31 juil. 08 à 15:13, Christiaan Hofman a écrit : BTW, if you want to fix Skim notes support

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Consolidating my Bibliography Chaos

2008-08-05 Thread Christiaan Hofman
This is definitely a bug. Though I don't yet see what causes it. And what makes it hard is that it crashes in Apple's private code. Any idea what configuration triggers this? It would be helpful if you could reproduce it with as simple a file as possible, best with a single item. I guess

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Consolidating my Bibliography Chaos

2008-08-05 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: This is definitely a bug. Though I don't yet see what causes it. And what makes it hard is that it crashes in Apple's private code. Any idea what configuration triggers this? It would be helpful if you could reproduce

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Consolidating my Bibliography Chaos

2008-08-07 Thread Christiaan Hofman
(and for BibDesk!) Stephan Am 05.08.2008 um 23:21 schrieb Christiaan Hofman: On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is definitely a bug. Though I don't yet see what causes it. And what makes it hard is that it crashes in Apple's private code. Any

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Consolidating my Bibliography Chaos

2008-08-07 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 7 Aug 2008, at 7:14 PM, Stephan Kurz wrote: Am 07.08.2008 um 18:56 schrieb Maxwell, Adam R: On 08/07/08 09:50, Stephan Kurz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It probably is relevant that the files are on a separate volume. And it's important that the .bib file is on your local volume, so that

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