On Jun 17, 2008, at 4:52 PM, Andrei Sobolevskii wrote: > 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).
My approach is just about the same, albeit with TextMate rather than Emacs :) > Of course I could also create per- > project bib files (and do occasionally to send them to collaborators). I love the ability to drop a .aux file onto BibDesk and have it select the references used in a paper. I usually then create a static group for them and use that to create the .bib to mail to colleagues. That feature is a hidden gem. Cheers, James ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
