Hello,
I do have a comment and a question below, but I would like to state
something up front. I admit that I'm new to the BibTeX format. So far
I've been reasonably comfortable with it, because I do most of my work
in XML + XSL these days, which has proven to be almost directly
analogous to LaTeX processing.
First of all, I'd like to say that I just discovered BibDesk and it is
FANTASTIC! The software is very well written and so far everything has
worked pretty much exactly as I expected it to. However, I have found
the documentation to be a little dense. While most of the program can
be figured out through simple intuition, there was something I wanted to
check whether or not was possible in BibDesk, and after poking around
the documentation and the Wiki I'm still not certain.
Here's the use case:
* I am a research assistant for a professor at the University of
Maryland. One of my tasks is to convert her list of publications
from a nonstandard HTML format to BibTeX. I succeeded in
converting it to BibTeX (via XML+XSL, tools I'm quite comfy with).
I was delighted that I could simply copy+paste the my XSL's
BibTeX output into BibDesk and have it create records for all the
publications.
* *However, the ideal setup would be* if BibDesk could "look up" a
list of publications on my professor's website (hosted on a
personal server). In this ideal, BibDesk would retrieve the
latest list of publications, which my professor could then update,
and have it published back to the website. Meanwhile, I would
maintain some templates for these publications to be viewed on the
website. If necessary, I would ideally be able to open BibDesk
and have the program retrieve the latest list of publications from
the server as well.
I am aware that BibTeX supports script hooks, but I'm afraid I don't
know enough about script hooks to feel comfortable writing one that
could potentially open a security hole. So if the above is possible
without script hooks (or via existing, battle-tested script hooks) that
would be preferable.
Is this possible?
—Zearin
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