On May 16, 2011, at 11:36 , Adam M. Goldstein wrote: > > I remember the days when I used Endnote. Its built-in styles for references > were sometimes off by a little, so I would try to tinker with them, using a > system essentially like the BD template system. I never figured it out. > > BD will (thankfully) never be mated directly with MS Word, so there will > never be automatic citing-and-bib-formatting, but I think the template system > is probably as easy to use at least as Endnote's. I don't know how Papers > works.
Papers now uses Bruce D'Arcus' CSL [1] for formatting, which gives them access to lots of user-created styles. This is a good move, in my opinion, but creating those styles is still not easy. > Also Papers now announces it's new feature, searching your entire library. I > don't know how much of what they say applies only to Papers 2, but almost > everything they say BD has had for umm *years*. Yeah, I think I've ranted about that before, as well. The main thing Papers had over BibDesk when it was first released was PubMed integration and the ability to read PDF files in the program. They did a nice job with it, and I think competition in this area is good for continued innovation: BibDesk now has PubMed searching built in, and I believe EndNote even adopted some BibDesk features. However, the characterization of Papers as the-first-and-only-tool-to-link-PDF-and-references was ludicrous when it was released, and continues to irritate me, event though I do more using of BibDesk than development now. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation_Style_Language ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
