Hi, recently I fiddled again with my templates. Much kudos from me, BibDesk's templating system is now among the most powerful of any software. It certainly beats Endnote et al. in terms of fexibility.
There's just one area which I think could be improved and this is exchange. I use biblatex for my LaTeX documents and my BibDesk templates also make heavy use of the additional fields biblatex provides. When I give my templates to someone else this requires quite a bit of setup on his part: He has to add certain bibtex types and certain fields in the prefs (for example, BibDesk needs to be told that "translator", "redactor" and "foreword" has to be treated as persons) and then assign the different templates to the different document types. I wonder whether it would be possible to at least partially skip this procedure. In a perfect world, adding a template would already set up BibDesk in the desired way. I know this is probably too complicated. But can at least part of the information which is stored in the prefs also be put in the template (for example which fields have to be treated as persons) in the template? I do see a potential conflict on which settings should be set globally for the app and which are template specific, but I think at least some settings could easily be template specific. What do you think? simon -- Simon Spiegel Steinhaldenstr. 50 8002 Zürich Telephon: ++41 44 451 5334 Mobophon: ++41 76 459 60 39 http://www.simifilm.ch „Was soll aus mir mal werden, wenn ich mal nicht mehr bin?“ Robert Gernhardt ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
