On Jan 8, 2010, at 13:20, Christiaan Hofman wrote:

> 
> On Jan 8, 2010, at 12:20, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Jan 8, 2010, at 0:59, david craig wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, david craig wrote:
>>>> The obvious thing would seem to be to create, say, a static group for 
>>>> each paper.  The next thing would be to save just this group as a 
>>>> single bib file that would include just the references in the group, 
>>>> along with any of the macros used in it.  This is the part I can't 
>>>> figure out how to accomplish.
>>> 
>>> That is to say, I know that you can select everything in a group, and so 
>>> long as you tick "export only selected items" you can save the result as 
>>> a single bib file.   However, it also saves ALL your macros (perhaps not 
>>> such a big deal).   This seems a bit clumsy, though.
>>> 
>>> Is there a better way to manage individual paper bibliographies from a 
>>> master database than this?   Or should I be making a feature request 
>>> to make it a little more seamless to export a group as a new bib file?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> David Craig
>>> 
>>> 
>>> <http://www.panix.com/~dac/>
>> 
>> Is it really so important to include only the relevant macros? I agree with 
>> Adam that it's not worth doing it in the standard export from BibDesk, 
>> perhaps I'd even say it's unwanted. Macros are just a set of convenience 
>> shortcuts that you could use. You also wouldn't want to ask for a .bst or 
>> .sty file that just contains the definitions that you use. And as we've said 
>> in the other thread, when you want to do things differently, you need to use 
>> the template mechanism.
>> 
>> Christiaan
>> 
> 
> 
> Attached is a sample template that does essentially what you ask.
> 
> Christiaan
> 
> <BibTeXTemplateWithUsedMacros.txt>

And an even simpler one:


<[email protected]>
@string{<$name/> = <$bibTeXString/>}
</[email protected]>

<$publications>
<$bibTeXString/>

</$publications>


Christiaan


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