Right, and this one (for instance) looks like it would be
@book{citekey,
foo={bar}
}
Note that if you have quotes surrounding field/value pairs as shown in
your message below, you need to remove them.
On Apr 25, 2008, at 2:26 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
> 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
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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
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>> 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]>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>>>
>>> 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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