Hi Christiaan.
I appreciate your point but I think the question is appropriate here
because I am having difficulty understanding how the BibDesk
capability for custom fields relates to document styles in bibtex. I
am in the process of educating/re-educating myself about this but
would appreciate any advice you might offer to help speed that up. It
bears directly on how I plan to use BibDesk in the larger universe of
scientific data publication and citation.
For example, if I create custom fields using BibDesk, will I be
breaking the definition of a document style in bibtex such that other
bibtex-specific processing outside of BibDesk would not recognize
them? That's my impression from what I've read so far. However, I'm
not sure that my understanding is correct.
I am trying to create a permanent definition for data citations and I
would like to use BibDesk as a primary platform to interactively
contstruct them and also to train others in constructing them. If I
bite the bullet and work on a new document style so as not to
interfere with existing definitions, then what is the best way to get
that document style incorporated into the pull-down menu (i.e.,
article, book, misc, data,...) of BibDesk so it can be selected?
Thanks.
John
On Sep 24, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
On Sep 24, 2009, at 18:53, Helly John wrote:
Hi.
I'm seeking advice on how to proceed to develop a proper bibtex
citation for geo- and temporally-referenced research data. After
looking around for prior work on this I don't find anything
particularly relevant but may have missed something. Here's what
we want to be able to do and it seems that we may need a new
document style.
1. Take a generic citation (e.g., misc) and add the following kinds
of fields:
1.1 West
1.2 East
1.3 South
1.4 North
1.5 DatetimeBegin
1.6 DatetimeEnd
1.7 ProvenanceParents
1.8 ProvenanceSibllings
I understand that I could add them using the defaults fields
capability in BibDesk but this seems like a kluge and not the
correct long-term best solution.
I'm just coming back to bibtex after many years and used to
understand how to create document styles but I'm uncertain just yet
about the best way to proceed. For example, if I created a
ResearchData style, how would I get it into BibDesk so I could use it?
Thanks and sorry if I've missed prior discussion of this type of
topic.
Cheers.
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John Helly, UCSD / San Diego Supercomputer Center / Scripps
Institution of Oceanography, Climate, Atmospheric Science, and
Physical Oceanography / +01 760 840 8660 mobile / stonesteps
(Skype) / stonesteps7 (iChat) / http://www.sdsc.edu/~hellyj
First of all, you should realize that BibDesk is not bibtex. BibDesk
is involved in saving the data, not processing through bibtex.
Therefore, anything about a bibliography style is not really in the
context of BibDesk. So my question to you is: are you asking about
bibtex citation styles? In that case it's better asked on a (bib)tex
list, though perhaps users here can help you out. Or are you asking
about some custom types to save in BibDesk? In that case you should
look at the Custom Types and Fields button in the Default Fields
preferences.
Christiaan
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