On Apr 22, 2008, at 9:48 PM, Michael Chanan wrote:
> I am a new user – or thinking of it. What I need to know is this: I
> have a bibliography already set up in Filemaker, which I would like
> to import into BibDesk. Can I do this? If so, how? Grateful for any
> help.
Knowing nothing of Filemaker's capabilities, I can only make general
suggestions. If you can write your bibliography out in the plain text
BibTeX or RIS format, you can open it easily in BibDesk.
A BibTeX entry looks like this:
@type{citekey,
author = {Ivan P. Freely and Bud Weiser},
title = {If You Gotta Go, Go Now},
keywords = {windmill, blue},
year = {2010}
}
with additional field = value pairs inserted as necessary. The "type"
is one of the standard BibTeX types (google for btxdoc.pdf for more
info), and "citekey" can be any ASCII alphanumeric string (best to
exclude punctuation; you can even use the same key for all entries and
generate a unique key in BibDesk). Authors must be separated by "and."
The RIS format is available on the web if you prefer that route;
google should help you find that as well.
I'd recommend writing the file as UTF-8 and reading it into BibDesk
using the same encoding (set in BibDesk's Files preference pane or in
the Open dialog). Post back if you have questions!
hth,
adam
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