You're missing the "@pubtype{" opening part of the item. That is very
crucial for bibtex.
Christiaan
On 25 Apr 2008, at 8:07 AM, Michael Chanan wrote:
> My thanks to Adam and Ingrid for their replies to my query. I now
> have a
> text file which looks like this:
> "Author = {Ukadike, Nwachunkwu Frank},","Publisher = {University of
> California Press},","Title = {Black African Cinema},","Year =
> {1994},","Keywords = {African Cinema}}"
> Does that look right?
> Problem is, it doesn't import - i.e. when I go to'open using
> temporary cite
> key', the file in greyed out so you can't choose it. If you opt for
> 'open
> using filter', it recognises the file and you can choose, but then
> says
> something about not recognising the filter and to test it in
> Terminal, which
> I simply don't understand. (Perhaps I should add that I've been using
> computers for 25 years, including highly complex programmes like
> professional video editors, have just converted to Mac - I know, why
> didn't
> I do it sooner? - but have no programming skills whatsoever.)
>
> Again, I should be grateful for any help.
>
> Michael Chanan
>
>
>
>> 5. Re: New user question (Adam R. Maxwell)
>> 6. Re: New user question (Ingrid Giffin)
>
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>> Message: 4
>> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:48:01 +0100
>> From: Michael Chanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: [Bibdesk-users] New user question
>> To: <[email protected]>
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>> 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.
>>
>> Michael C.
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>> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:01:56 -0700
>> From: "Adam R. Maxwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: Re: [Bibdesk-users] New user question
>> To: For general discussion about using BibDesk
>> <[email protected]>
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>> 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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>>
>> Message: 6
>> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:04:21 -0600
>> From: Ingrid Giffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: Re: [Bibdesk-users] New user question
>> To: BibDesk <[email protected]>
>> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>>
>> The programming gurus can no doubt give a more technical
>> explanation, but
>> I?m a long-time Filemaker user, and this should not be difficult.
>> BibDesk
>> imports plain text files as long as they are formatted with the
>> proper
>> identifying tags. Filemaker can easily add tags to text by means of
>> calculation fields.
>>
>> For instance: below is a copy of the BibTex record of a basic
>> article in
>> BibDesk. Take the author field, as an example. If you have the
>> author?s name
>> in Filemaker in First Name and Last Name fields, for example, you can
>> concatenate that with a calculation field, and simultaneously wrap
>> the
>> BibTex tag and punctuation around it, like so: ?Author = {?
>> +LastName + ?, ?
>> + FirstName + ?},? . Create a calculated field like that each of
>> the fields
>> you want to export. Then do another calculated field that
>> concatenates all
>> of the 1st-tier calculated fields, and wraps them with the [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> symbol and
>> the record type, such as ?article? or ?book? or whatever. Remember
>> the final
>> ?}?. Then export that big super-concatenated field from all the
>> records you
>> want, as a text file. That text can then be dragged into BibDesk.
>>
>> I may be missing a few details here and there, since I?m a little
>> rusty on
>> Filemaker, but that?s the basic idea. (And there might well be a more
>> elegant way to do it.)
>>
>> It?ll take a little setup, obviously, but not too bad IMHO.
>>
>>
>> @article{Boethius1948Ancient-Town-Architecture,
>> Author = {Boethius, Axel},
>> Journal = {The American Journal of Philology},
>> Number = {4},
>> Pages = {396--407},
>> Publisher = {The Johns Hopkins University Press},
>> Title = {Ancient Town Architecture and the New Material from
>> Olynthus},
>> Volume = {69},
>> Year = {1948}}
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>
>
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