On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Christian <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 28.01.2009 um 22:06 schrieb Christiaan Hofman: >> On 28 Jan 2009, at 9:33 PM, Christian wrote: >>> Am 28.01.2009 um 20:43 schrieb Christiaan Hofman: >>>> On 28 Jan 2009, at 8:16 PM, Christian wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I know that BibDesk works together with the gloss package to create >>>>> libraries for a glossar. >>>>> Because the glossaries package is more up to date and more >>>>> flexible, >>>>> it would be nice if BibDesk would work for glossaries as it does >>>>> for >>>>> gloss. >>>>> I think it would be necessary to provide a gui with the appropriate >>>>> fields and save it as a tex file. >>>>> >>>>> Would there be a way that this will happen in the future? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Thanks >>>>> Christian >>>> >>>> I don't know anything about what you're talking. is it some kind of >>>> bibtex support package? Any bibtex type can be supported as is with >>>> BibDesk. You may need to add custom types and fields though in the >>>> Default Fields preferences to support types that are not used in the >>>> standard styles. >>>> >>>> Christiaan >>> >>> No, it is not a bibtex supported format. >>> The glossary entry with glossaries looks like: >>> >>> \newglossaryentry{perl}{name=Perl,description=A scripting language} >>> >>> within an extra file saved as *.tex. >>> >>> And within the text you use for example >>> >>> \gls{perl}. >>> >>> Because of the great usability of BibDesk and its ablity of working >>> together with gloss, I thought it would be possible to also provide >>> support for the glossaries package. >>> >>> Christian >> >> I'm not sure what kind of support you're thinking of? Remember that >> BibDesk is mostly a manager of citation information. So what kind of >> support are you thinking of? Note I know next to nothing about the >> workflow for glossaries. One thing I could imagine BibDesk could do is >> to maintain information of the glossary entries in items of a new >> 'glossary' type. Then you can write a template for a glossary entry, >> which you can then use to copy or drag into your tex file. This can >> already be done. Is this what you want? >> >> Christiaan > > Exactly Christiaaa! That was what I tried to explain. How would be the > procedure to implement this? > The glossaries package requires certain entries for an item and the > drag an drop procedure needs to generate something like \gls{label}. > > Christian
Christian, Both of these steps are documented in the BidDesk help. See: 11.9.1 Custom Types and Fields and 10. Templates HTH Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
