Hi Christian, On 18 Jun 2008, at 00:34, Christian wrote:
> Do you used to organise your papers all in one fixed location (one > folder for all papers) or relative to each document? I have one huge monolithic bib file for all my stuff (> 4500 entries) in ~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib/ and a ~/Documents/Papers/ folder with subfolders called by first author names (even if several different authors have the same name like e.g. Smith or Li, they are lumped in one such subfolder ~/Documents/Papers/Smith/ etc). This is one of the canned setups conveniently offered by Bibdesk, although I tweaked it a bit. Namely, when Bibdesk autofiles a PDF, it creates a subfolder [FirstAuthorName] and puts the PDF there renaming it to [YearOptionalUniqueLetter] by default, so the path looks like e.g. ~/ Documents/Papers/Smith/2005b.pdf; I changed the filename to [FirstAuthorNameYear].pdf because when you send files by email to other people it helps to have more informative filenames, so my path in the above example is ~/Documents/Papers/Smith/Smith2005b.pdf. When I write a paper in LaTeX, I put the name of this monolithic bib file to the argument of the \bibliography command and BibTeX fishes there for the necessary bibliography entries itself (and, as I use Emacs + AUCTeX + RefTeX, the file gets automatically searched for autocompletion of bib keys). Of course I could also create per- project bib files (and do occasionally to send them to collaborators). Hope this helps, Andrei ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
