Bibdesk not working software#

I don't have particularly strong feelings on this, but I don't think it's as clear-cut as you're making it sound. But given that it would be creating new records in your library, I'm not sure it's a bad thing for this to be a more explicit, specialized action (particularly in Firefox, where Cmd-V is a valid shortcut key in Firefox itself and the action would have to depend on which pane had focus). It's true that otherwise Cmd-V is doing nothing. (I imagine there are some database programs (Access?) that create new records on paste, but I don't know any offhand.) Creating new records on a paste is a much less common convention. This really isn't analogous to any of your examples, which, as adamsmith says, are pasting into an open document.

That's fair, but I think the weird part is creating a record (or, potentially, many new records) on a paste. jpeg is a serialized representation of an image, or an HTML or RTF chunk of text represents formatted text. It's a serialized representation of a record, just like a. (Also, what else than to insert the record should Command-V do?)īibTex is not just text. (Drag&drop of the text chunk, as is possible on the Mac, should be supported as well.) That is a very common thing to do, and a good use case. And then I copy and paste whatever I see in my browser into my bibliography manager. Not from the user's perspective, and hopefully not from a sophisticated programmer's perspective, either.Įvery time I look up a document on Google and land on a publisher's website, and they will let me export the citation as BibTeX, I will do so. It pastes the most detailed, yet interpretable version of the data in the clipboard into the current document, in the appropriate form.Īs far as I remember, anything on the Cocoa Pasteboard has a MIME type.īibTex is not just text.

Second, when you have an image on the clipboard, does it paste the binary data with a lot of gibberish into your Word document when you hit ^V? No, of course not.

Bibdesk not working software#

First, there can be multiple formats on the clipboard. BibDesk is an open-source reference management software package for macOS, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles.