Do we have any users who understand Endnote export templates and how to edit them? Perhaps you could swing over to this Bug on the Tracker and test Christian's tweaks to the Endnote bibtex export. The goal, I think, is to ensure that Endnote never generates citekeys (and then the import can be opened with temporary citekeys and good ones generated by BibTex).
The other alternative is to ensure that Endnote always includes citekeys, but that has proven hard in the past, since they have to be unique and of a certain format. Its the cases where the default export template generates bibtex with a mix of entries with and without citekeys that is hard for BibDesk to handle. The background is below or in the Tracker thread. Thanks, James Begin forwarded message: > From: "SourceForge.net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: April 22, 2008 4:12:22 PM EDT > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [ bibdesk-Bugs-1948436 ] open with temp citekeys may fail > when entries have a key > > Bugs item #1948436, was opened at 2008-04-22 07:40 > Message generated for change (Comment added) made by hofman > You can respond by visiting: > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=497423&aid=1948436&group_id=61487 > > Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the > comment thread, > including the initial issue submission, for this request, > not just the latest update. > Category: File I/O > Group: None > Status: Open > Resolution: None > Priority: 2 > Private: No > Submitted By: Adam Maxwell (amaxwell) > Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) > Summary: open with temp citekeys may fail when entries have a key > > Initial Comment: > This is an excerpt from a user's file, produced by Endnote's BibTeX > export. Opening with temporary keys assumes that no item has a key, > but apparently this isn't necessarily so. > > As a quick hack, I did a regex find/replace with 's/([EMAIL PROTECTED])[a- > zA-Z0-9]+,/$1/g' but even that didn't catch all cases, since one of > the keys had spaces in it. There's probably a more robust way to do > it, but I'm not even sure it's worthwhile since this has never come > up before...and it's also difficult to test and catch all cases > without breaking the current support. > > @incollection{ > Author = {Polin, Linda and Riel, Margaret}, > Title = {Online Learning Communities}, > BookTitle = {Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of > Learning}, > Editor = {Barab, Sasha A. and Kling, Rob and Gray, James}, > Publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, > Year = {2004} } > > @book{ > pollock1999, > Author = {Pollock, John L. and Cruz, Joseph}, > Title = {Contemporary Theories of Knowledge}, > Publisher = {Roman & Littlefield Publishers}, > Address = {Lanham, Maryland}, > Series = {Studies in Epistemology and Cognitive Theory}, > Keywords = {cogsci > history}, > Year = {1999} } > > @misc{ > NSF PR 98-36, > Author = {NSF}, > Title = {Science and Engineering Indicators '98 Survey Shows > Americans' Interest in Science Grows}, > Publisher = {National Science Foundation}, > Month = {July 1, 1998}, > Abstract = {Americans say they are more interested and more aware > than ever about scientific discoveries, inventions, and new > technologies. However they still score low on actual understanding > of basic scientific terms and concepts, such as the definition of > molecules and DNA, and how frequently the earth revolves around the > sun.}, > Keywords = {survey, science, knowledge, attitudes, adult}, > Year = {1998} } > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> Comment By: Christiaan Hofman (hofman) > Date: 2008-04-22 23:12 > > Message: > Logged In: YES > user_id=1162009 > Originator: NO > > Maybe someone with EndNote can test the attched patch ed export > template? > I don't even know if it's valid, I just deleted some lines, but the > format > is binary. > File Added: BibTeXExport.ens > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Comment By: Adam Maxwell (amaxwell) > Date: 2008-04-22 22:53 > > Message: > Logged In: YES > user_id=732757 > Originator: YES > > That's not a bad idea, providing we can find someone who understands > Endnote export templates :). Maybe link to it on the wiki? Even more > convenient might be to just assign a fake citekey to each entry in > Endnote...although the user would then have to remember to generate > new > keys. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Comment By: James Howison (jameshowison) > Date: 2008-04-22 22:44 > > Message: > Logged In: YES > user_id=844653 > Originator: NO > > Actually I meant fix the export on the Endnote side. I think that > one can > add new export templates, so BiBDesk could publish a patched version > of the > BibTeX export, which always drops the citekeys ... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Comment By: Adam Maxwell (amaxwell) > Date: 2008-04-22 18:48 > > Message: > Logged In: YES > user_id=732757 > Originator: YES > > Yeah, I think it does use some field as citekey. There are some > implementation problems in removing them, though, since the > Endnote-generated keys may contain almost anything AFAICT (so the > regex > would be tricky). > > Another problem is that AGRegex find/replace is horrendously slow on > large > strings; unfortunately, these Endnote exports tend to be quite > large, since > people typically export an entire database, so it can either > beachball for > minutes or use up all your address space. We currently do some tricky > scanner/regex combination stuff to work around that. Dropping in > RegexKitLite might be a better long term solution. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Comment By: James Howison (jameshowison) > Date: 2008-04-22 17:51 > > Message: > Logged In: YES > user_id=844653 > Originator: NO > > I haven't used Endnote export for a while, but I seem to recall that > there > is an Endnote field which, if present, is used as a citekey. If the > field > is absent one gets no citekey. Perhaps the OP sometimes has that > field > set? Maybe the best thing to do is to fix the Endnote export so > that it > never includes a citekey, whether nor not that field is present. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Comment By: Christiaan Hofman (hofman) > Date: 2008-04-22 13:13 > > Message: > Logged In: YES > user_id=1162009 > Originator: NO > > I don't think it's worth it. There will always be edge cases to > these edge > cases. Its about something that's broken in the first place, and > testing > for broken cases is always less reliable. EndNote really makes a > mess out > of it. 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