Sonny Software

Hi, I would like to set up the quick search that for spotlight it is also "live" (no need to press enter). To user manual states it isn't live for performance reasons, but my searches after pressing enter are faster than I can easily perceive, and this must depend on the age of the machine...

If I use the Spotlight quick search, the PDF results can be displayed in the attachments panel. In Scrivener and Papers, when your search includes a PDF it also highlights the searched for term within the PDF panel (and scrolls to the first match): Screenshot 2016-09-02 10.27.43.png It would be nice...

Dellu: OK, I suspect you are visualising your PDF constantly as you write, so you need your .BIB file to be up-to-date continuously. I think the Applescript route is the only way to go, it seems much less trouble than dealing with duplicates. Don't forget you can use many different apps to assign ke...

I think it is unfeasible for Jon to support the two formats, and although it would be great to be able to transform between the two, it will probably require a third-party text processing script/tool. I think Bookends supports the applescript necessary to find the references and get back the informa...

Yes OK agreed, this would be very non-trivial to implement the full feature set. I wonder how/if Papers 3 deal with this (they support the temporary citation, but no idea about the scanning)?

Pandoc[1] is an excellent text processing engine which integrates into many different workflows. For Scrivener users it offers more powerful features than MMD alone. We can use a custom format (Pandoc = `@`u1) and settings in BE preferences (use [] for temporary citations) to generate temporary cita...

Yes, there are multiple routes to generate a bibliography in the Scrivener > MMD > LaTeX route: Use standard BE temporary citations and scan the .md file using Bookends. Use MMD style citations and transform then to BibLaTex format. LaTeX does the formatting. Use Pandoc and pandoc-citeproc to scan t...

OK makes sense!

OK, proofreading scan should do 99.48% of the heavy lifting, great! Is there a reason not to let the proofreading scan also change the delimiters?

Jon would your scanning code be able to deal with unterminated blocks? What I mean is that << could be used by people in normal text without the matching closing >>, which may cause bookends to read in a large text chunk. Also blocks of code (aka computer science papers) could falsely trigger using ...

Yes why are you exporting to Bibdesk at all (which is where you say your duplicates are being created), once you have a .BIB file exported from Bookends, you don't need Bibdesk?

Most of the standard symbols are used in LaTeX[1] : + - = ! / ( ) [ ] < > | ' : \ { } $ _ ^ and the tilde and asterisk used by markdown. I suppose the « » could be an option, but this would conflict with non-English quoting. The section symbol § probably doesn't conflict with anything, but would lo...

The tilde means subscript in markdown, e.g. CO~2~ and the | is also used in LaTeX maths ...

OK, so I just make a special format like [Cerebral Cortex Markdown] modified for that use case, yes I think that should work if it preserves the whitespace. Thanks Jon! p.s. I still have lots of problems with Bookends trying to format LaTeX equations in plain text files, and still wish we had a way ...

I always use Multimarkdown with Scrivener as it provides very flexible output options (especially via Pandoc). Of course markdown is just plain text, but does enable one to use full outlining, footnotes,bold / emphasis, figure legends etc. converting to multiple outputs, so for example: K. Rayner, *...