[OS X TeX] bibdesk 1.1

[Norm Gall]

On 9-Jun-05, at 8:23 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:

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> On Jun 9, 2005, at 07:12, Norm Gall wrote:
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>> I use carbon Emacs (not surprisingly) and various built-in  
>> functions (like bibref) gag on them.  I have some lisp that  
>> converts back, but it sometimes take a while to do a 500 entry  
>> database.
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> Funny, I parsed that as "I use carbon Emacs <gag>".  Anyway, we use  
> capitalized names since they are used as keys in a dictionary, and  
> things break internally if we change a character in the key.

Well, I suppose that's fair enough.

> We could probably lowercase them on saving, but shouldn't bibref be  
> fixed to understand the keys, since they're correct BibTeX?
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I am not sure that they are. All of the examples of bibtex database  
files provided in teTeX have lowercase field names as does the  
bibtext specification in the LaTeX Book by Lamport.

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> Adam
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>> On 9-Jun-05, at 07:59 hrs, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
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>>> On Jun 9, 2005, at 06:46, Norm Gall wrote:
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>>>> Are you sure that it is the order and not the capitalisation of  
>>>> the field names?  I've had a feature/bug request in for months  
>>>> about that.
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>>> Just curious: what's the problem with capitalization of field names?
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>>> Adam
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