Re: [Bibdesk-users] Various questions

[Jeffrey J. <jgj...@wi...>]

On Oct 31, 2005, at 12:46 PM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:

> On Oct 31, 2005, at 12:04 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
>
>>> How do I put quotation marks in the Autofile format for local- 
>>> urls?  I tried with and without a specifier %, but neither method  
>>> worked.
>>>
>>
>> First of all, for Local File fields, the format parsing generates  
>> a URL, which does not allow characters like spaces and quotation  
>> marks. They are therefore escaped by standard %-escapes. However  
>> in the AutoFile format you enter the format for a generated path  
>> (in fact relative to your Papers Folder). So if you put quotation  
>> marks (") in the format (or when they appear in the generated  
>> part, eg from a title) they will be escaped as %22 in the  
>> generated Local-Url. This actually stands for a path containing  
>> the quotation marks. I hope this is not too complicated. Lets give  
>> an example (assuming your Papers Folder is your home directory,  
>> and your User directory johnson).
>>
>> format:
>>     file about "%k1" %u0.pdf
>> generated Local-Url (assuming the first keyword is work, %20 is  
>> the escape for space):
>>     file://localhost/johnson/file%20about%20%22work%22%201.pdf
>> linked file:
>>     ~/file about "work" 1.pdf
>>
>
> There appears to be a bug.  I'll file a report.
>

Never mind.  I can't seem to reproduce the problem any more.  Strange.