On 29.01.2009, at 16:17, Gerrit Glabbart wrote:
Am 29.01.2009 um 04:26 schrieb Sam Russell:One frustration I had with BibDesk was the pain in changing entry headings to match biblatex's recommended values. Until I sat down with the Typeinfo.plist file and manually edited it. Would anyone else be interested in a copy made up to biblatex / playing around with it?Wouldn't this make a good entry for the wiki? I've only dipped my toes into biblatex (if you forgive me that metaphor) so far, but yes, I am interested, and I'm guessing there must be a number of people who are interested and who don't know it yet (jurabib users come to mind, considering that project's current hiatus).
I'm a heavy user of biblatex, and to be honest I don't really understand what Sam is suggesting. What do you mean by "entry headings"? Do you mean the various additional fields biblatex offers? If what you suggest is to have a BibDesk which comes out of the box with all document and field types biblatex offers, I'm not sure how useful that actually would be. Biblatex offers a plethora of new fields, that's one of its main strengths. At the same time I doubt that anyone actually uses all of the fields (or even a fraction of them) because they're meant to cover many different areas. For example, I can do with nine different document types and something like a dozen of additional fields. I'll never use legal stuff or patents, for example.
Although I rely on biblatex, at least for me there wouldn't be much gain if BibDesk came with all of biblatex's field out of the box. I actually would consider it a distraction since I don't need many of them, and the ones I need I can easily add myself (in the prefs or ad hoc). YMMV, of course, but as I said I doubt that anyone actually needs all of biblatex's fields.
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