I have the same issue with sharing with collaborators, and I can answer the question about why they want a minimal .bib file that they can read in an editor.
Some of my collaborators are in the 45-60 age range and have been writing papers in LaTeX with Bibtex for way over 20 years, and are really comfortable with the tools that they have been using for eons, and just not interested in changing to more modern tools. In fact, my question is: How do I save out a minimal .bib file for them, and then get it back with a couple of added cites, and put those added cites into my large bibtex file that has all my links to the articles themselves on my hard drives? On May 5, 2009, at 4:20 AM, bibdesk-users- [email protected] wrote: > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 19:43:15 -0700 > From: "Adam R. Maxwell" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Bibdesk-users] Sharing bib managed with Bibdesk with > non-bibdesk users > To: For general discussion about using BibDesk > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > On May 4, 2009, at 4:42 PM, Luc Bourhis wrote: > >> although bibdesk is invaluable to me, I have a few gripes when it >> comes to share a bib file managed by Bibdesk with non-bibdesk users. >> >> 1) My collaborators keep complaining about the Bdsk-File-1 entries >> which takes a very large amount of text editor screen space (not to >> mention bandwith), to no avail for them. > > A simple option would be to use File->Export to save a .bib file as > "minimal" BibTeX for your collaborators. > > I think Christiaan added a bunch of the old Local-Url stuff back in, > so you might be able to use that. I wouldn't recommend it, since it > makes your links fragile once again and possibly reduces > functionality. > > With cite completion in modern editors, reading the .bib file seems > unusual to me. Why do they do this (serious question...I'm not trying > to be snotty)? Are your collaborators able to use JabRef or something > similar? Finally, complaining about bandwidth seems like a stretch > unless they're on a 2400 baud modem... > >> 2) Bibdesk writes trailing white spaces which make my version >> control system complain every single time: >> >> trunk/dox/cctbx_references.bib:5: trailing whitespace. >> +%% Created for Luc Bourhis at 2009-05-04 16:29:15 +0200 >> ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| >> trunk/dox/cctbx_references.bib:8: trailing whitespace. >> +%% Saved with string encoding Western (ISO Latin 1) >> ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| >> >> (The ||||||||||||||| aren't in the file of course: I have added them >> to show where the trailing blank is!) > > Offhand, I'm not sure why this would occur, since the only code > appends a single space and double newline when writing that info. If > you disable the preference to write a template file when saving, it > won't be written at all. My own .bib files are still in CVS, and I > don't recall having this problem. > >> I would think that (2) is trivial to fix. > > Time for you to fire up gdb :). The code you're looking for is in > BibDocument.m, line 1556. > >> As for (1), I would really love the info stored in the Bdsk-File-1 >> to live in another file than the bib file. > > At that point, you should consider a different program to manage that > info; storing the file info in a separate file would be a nightmare. > > -- > Adam Robert H. Sloan http://www.cs.uic.edu/~sloan/ Professor and Interim Head Dept. of Computer Science University of Illinois at Chicago 312-996-2369 (office) 312-413-0024 (fax) 312-413-2911 (my assistant Ms. Imelda Baker) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
