On 03/04/09 10:06, "Sven-S. Porst" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not that _I_ have ever used BibDesk with anything other than BibTeX, > but I think the application's features reach far beyond BibTeX by now > and it might attract non-TeXie users. Those people always seem to be > frightened by references to TeX. Perhaps one can mention something > like 'transparently works with BibTeX' without making explicit, that > the app was originally designed for it. I think this is a great point; I've seen comments from a number of people who dismiss BibDesk just because of the BibTeX association. The versiontracker description is a good example of what to avoid: "For use with BibTeX and (la)TeX, BibDesk is a GUI front-end for managing BibTeX databases in their original .bib form. Search, organize, and cite with drag n' drop. Publish bibliographies to the web as RSS XML." On the other hand, the level of BibTeX support is a plus; you can browse the Papers forum to see people asking for BibTeX macro/crossref support, and I find it odd that they put their BibTeX data in a program that can't preserve things like @incollection vs. @article. I'm not sure if these people are unaware of BibDesk's filing/searching support, or just don't like it...but I think that's a key feature to point out (screenshot of file content searching?). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-develop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-develop
