[OS X TeX] Two BibDesk/bibtex questions

[Fernando Pereira]

1. I'm trying to update an RSS feed with my publications, and here's  
an initial fragment of the result:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rss version="0.92">
<channel>
<title>Fernando Pereira's publications</title>
<link>http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~pereira/bib/pubs.html</link>
<description></description>
<language>en</language>
<copyright>Copyright 2005, Fernando Pereira</copyright>
<editor></editor>
<lastBuildDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2005 14:32:38 US/Eastern</lastBuildDate>


<item>
<description>
</description>
<link>http://www.cis.upenn.edu/\~blitzer/papers/nips.pdf</link>
</item>


<item>
<description>
</description>
<link>http://www.seas.upenn.edu/\~ryantm/papers/segmentationHLT- 
EMNLP2005.pdf</link>
</item>
  ...

What happened to the descriptions? (paper titles)

2. Many of the URLs are of the form .../~user/.... To avoid breaking  
other things, eg. bib2html, the "~" has to be escaped. But that  
breaks the URLs in the RSS feed, and requires hand correction of URLs  
dragged into the BibDesk URL field. Is there some magic workaround  
for this problem?

Thanks

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