On 2007-October-08 , at 08:38 , Simon Spiegel wrote:
>> Just out of curiosity, what would help the non-LaTeX users the most?
>> People have mentioned integration with word processors. What
>> would it
>> look like? Basic RTF scanning wouldn't be too hard. A UI for
>> templates would be nice, too.
>
> An UI would certainly be a good idea. I don't think that many users
> would use BibDesk with its current template system even if it had RTF
> scanning. Toom many users would be scared by it. I'd use it, but I'm
> certainly not the average user. I also think that the template system
> needs improvement to deal with more complex styles. For example more
> options how to deal with multiple authors/editors or with stuff like
> 'ibid.'.
I also think a GUI to build bibliography styles would be very
welcome. I suggested this in back in 2005:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?
msg_id=9787bb9212cc90ffa59662781198cb8a%40gmail.com
[NB: sorry the links to the images are broken, I lost them]
and it was considered too big to be in the scope of BibDesk at that
time. The context seems to be the same today: people want tighter
integration between bibdesk and their word processors and, to do
that, a way to scan the document for citations as well as to format
the references list is needed.
If such a UI is build, I would love it to output rtf templates as
well as something more LaTeX related (since apparently most current
users of BD use LaTeX). At the time of my first post, I thought about
writing .bst files, with BibTeX code, but the fact that it is a new
language, and a not very user-friendly one, adds some complexity.
Now, if this UI could output files suitable for biblatex, which is
much easier to use than bibtex, it would be great.
JiHO
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