Hello everybody,
I believe a question that has been asked before on the mailing list (by me but
also others) is how to include a link to a certain page of a PDF - the page
containing a Skim note – in an HTML file created by a BibDesk template. The
main problem seems to be that the Skim template is unaware of the file location
on which it is run, whereas BibDesk can not display Skim notes in order (that
is, it can only sort them by date created, not position on page). For anyone
interested, and anyone googling the problem later, I have found a tentative
solution.
At the top of my BibDesk HTML item template, I included a line
<script>
var citeKey = "<$citeKey/>"
</script>
The item template includes the Skim notes by using the <$textSkimNotes/> key.
In the default Skim template (i.e. ~/Library/Application\
Support/Skim/templates/notesTemplate.txt), the notes are templated as follows:
<script>document.write('<a href="skb://' +
citeKey);</script>#<$pageIndex.numberByAddingOne/>"><$contents/></a>
If you then save the linked file containing the Skim notes before exporting the
BibDesk entry, the resulting HTML will contain a sorted array of Skim notes
including absolute links (in the sense of being independent of the currently
active BibDesk item, they are relative insofar as moving the files obviously
won’t break the links as long as BibDesk is aware of the linked files location)
to the certain page of the first linked file of the publication.
This obviously only works if you have an application that is registered for the
skb URL scheme and can translate the combination of cite key and number into
some form of direction for Skim. For that, I use this applet:
http://www.dansheffler.com/blog/2014-07-13-skim-and-bibdesk-wrap-up/
It should be noted that the resulting HTML file seems to exceed the
capabilities of the BibDesk previewer, which renders the template as rich text.
It does however work beautifully in a web browser.
Cheers,
Jan Jakob
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