On May 7, 2010, at 14:52, Charles Turner wrote: > Hi- > > A LaTex newbie, fiddling with the Preferences to Bibdesk's preview; > and I had a couple of questions. Perhaps someone could point me to > answers if I've missed them in a search? > > In TexLive, there are quite a few bibliographic styles beyond the "8 > basic." I thought I could use the combo-box to select the .bst: > "chicago," but in typing it in, Bibdesk warns me that I may have to > modify the template for that to work. >
Many bibtex styles require also a latex style (.sty) to be used. In the case of chicago.bst that's chicago.sty. That warning doesn't say that you can't use chicago, it says that you shouldn't be surprised when it doesn't work, as you need to do more work (that we can't do for you). > I would have thought that Bibdesk would read all available .bst files > at startup (or something) and present them to the user, but this isn't > the case. Is the combo-box list modifiable, or is there a reason why > it isn't? > You can't change the list, but you can type any style you want. It's pretty hard to figure out all available styles, as where they can be depends on all kinds of settings that may differ depending on your installation and settings. Moreover, the list would almost certainly become too large to be very workable. > Also, if I want to use "bibtex8," I can obviously specify that in the > path, but in the text input area, can I also type in command-line > arguments to bibtex8? Say: "-8" or "--wolfgang"? > > Thanks so much! > > Charles Turner Yes, the (bib)tex command can contain extra arguments. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
