On Jan 13, 2008, at 12:12 PM, Karsten Krüger wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>
> Thanks for the quick response.
>
> See below:
>
>> The best import format is BibTeX, though a variety of plain text =20
>> formats are supported. If you need help on the syntax, feel free to
>> =20
>> ask. It's basically
>>
>> @typeOfReference{citeKey,
>> field =3D {value},
>> field2 =3D {value2}
>> }
>>
>> where typeOfReference is one of the standard BibTeX types, and
>> citeKey =20=
>>
>> should be some ASCII alphanumeric string (can be regenerated after
>> =20
>> import to BibDesk).
>
> Is there a reference somewhere for download ?
No; the official reference is the WEB source. ISTR you can weave that
and come up with documentation, but it's not trivial. Google is your
best bet, but I'd start with
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~jacobsd/bib/formats/bibtex.html
which has a very good summary. Oren Patashnik's btxdoc.pdf is at
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/doc/
and
http://search.cpan.org/~gward/btparse-0.34/doc/bt_language.pod
documents the parser we use, if you're looking for a formal grammar.
There is no official grammar, though, unfortunately.
>> What can you export from HyperCard?
>
> Anything I want :-)
Okay, then export as BibTeX using whatever encoding supported by
HyperCard for non-ASCII characters, and you should be all set.
--
adam
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