export only pdf attachment - better bibtex

rhaynes74 · December 28, 2020

Hi folks, I am exporting a .bib file of my library using better bibtex. For many of my references I have multiple attachments (often this includes a "snapshot" attachment). Is there any way to export only the pdf attachments?

bwiernik · December 28, 2020

@emilianoeheyns

emilianoeheyns · December 28, 2020

https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-better-bibtex/issues/1708

rhaynes74 · December 28, 2020

Hi folks, I tried the script in issue 1708 but couldn't get it to work.

emilianoeheyns · December 28, 2020

Then it's lots more productive to ask me there (as you did in the interim).

rhaynes74 · December 28, 2020

Thanks for your response - always possible to get suggestions from others in additional venues! In the mean time, I conjured up a little vi magic to hack this - assuming the .pdf is the first attachment listed in the file field:

:%s/;.*/}/

will remove the semi-colon and everything after on that line and add a right curly brace to close the field. A hack for sure but would certainly be nice to have better control of this.

emilianoeheyns · December 28, 2020

I seriously doubt anyone will know about postscripts to the level I do, and I have a strong preference for doing support on GitHub.

There's no need to fiddle with vi here, there's a setting for outputting only the filename.

rhaynes74 · December 29, 2020

If you could point me to the appropriate setting that would be great.

emilianoeheyns · December 29, 2020

I thought you meant the attachment titles, but you already have that off I see.

I have a solution for you in the issue you opened on github. What you want can only be done with a postscript, and I've put two there; which of them you want is dependent on what you seek to achieve.