On 10/7/07, Derick Fay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> I'm not one of the developers but you both know that Bibdesk is a
> software for generating Bibtex-files which are used in LaTeX-
> documents.
> I wonder how many users would agree with this characterization -- I don't
> use BibTex at all - do most other BibDesk users?
>
> I see BibDesk as a reference manager and search tool which happens to offer
> BibTex among its output formats, but which should have broad appeal beyond
> BibTex users..
I am with you Derick. I have little use for BibTex. Funnily, I
installed MacTex a few weeks ago for the first time... after 750 Mb of
all manner of stuff, I was able to open Tex files and view them as
PDF. I was not very thrilled.
I can imagine that Tex held some appeal to some people at some point
in time, but there is little use I see in it for myself. For me,
TextEdit is more easy and flexible.
Bibdesk, on the other hand, is a great references and citations
manager. Love it, love it, love it. But, like a few others, I am stuck
with the bottleneck in my workflow where I have to actually write
something, cite in it, and then create bibliographies. I find this gap
to be quite significant, the gap between my information in Bibdesk and
my wordprocessor, which, for now, happens to be the Scrivener + Pages
combo. I do my rough writing in Scrivener, and formal, finished stuff
in Pages.
Scrivener can use the text input manager's \cite{blah <hit esc to
auto-complete> blah} technique, but Pages can't. Then, when everything
is done, I am clueless as to how to convert my \cite{blah blah} into
"Blah blah. 2007. blah blah blah." I have been looking at Tom
Counsell's Ruby script, and that might save me. Mellel + Bookends
seems to do exactly what I dream of, but I don't want to use Mellel
because it can't handle South Asian scripts.
I think for now I will continue using Bibdesk, but if the gap between
that and a regular wordprocessor (not Tex, no not Tex) becomes too
much then I will have to look elsewhere for this particular itch.
That said, many, eternal thanks to Bibdesk's developers for making a
wonderful tool and giving it to the community. Whether or not it meets
my needs, your contribution is gratefully acknowledged.
> I use it with Nisus Writer Pro and Pages, primarily using
> .rtf export templates (e.g. the American Anthropologist template found here:
> http://dfay.fastmail.fm/bibdesk/ ) set up
> following the directions on the Wiki provided in Adam Goldstein's post (
> http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Export_Templates
> ).
>
> =============================================
> Derick A. Fay, Ph.D.
> Visiting Assistant Professor
> Department of Anthropology
> Union College
> Schenectady, NY 12308
>
>
>
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Puneet Kishor
http://punkish.eidesis.org/
Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/
Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)
http://www.osgeo.org/
Summer 2007 S&T Policy Fellow, The National Academies
http://www.nas.edu/
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