On Nov 19, 2007, at 10:06 PM, James Harrison wrote:
> On Nov 19, 2007, at 3:10 PM, James Owen wrote:
>
>> I tried out the CiteinPages Applescript, and it worked much better.
>> The only annoyance is that the only tag to mark a citation that you
>> can't use is the standard LaTeX tag, \cite{}
>> because Applescript (I think) chokes on it.
>
> Although I haven't tested it, it should be possible to use the regular
> LaTeX tag by defining the start of a citation as "\\cite{" and the end
> as "}". In Applescript a single backslash is an escape character, so
> you use two to denote an actual backslash.
>
> However, that means that any left-facing brace will be picked up as a
> potential end of a citation. If there's not a corresponding
> \cite{ before it, that will produce a "malformed citation" error.
> There are a couple of sentences in the documentation why I went this
> route. If I'm not planning to use LaTeX, symmetrical delimiters like
> [* and *] or left and right guillemets are easier on my eyes. And, as
> a bonus, if you have unique start and end delimiters it's easier to
> catch errors in citations. These are really easy to use in BibDesk by
> assigning a simple template to the dragged references.
>
> Jim Harrison
> Univ. of Virginia
well, yes, but as I want to be able to cut and paste from a document
destined
for standard LaTeX, I prefer to stick to standard formatting. In fact,
a simple solution
is to search and replace \cite{ with cite{, as I don't generally use
{ anywhere else.
James Owen
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