Dear Sebastian, You already got a lot of help, I believe. Have you really no-one close by who knows how to work with TeX? Once you get going with the basics, many of your questions should vanish by themselves. If nobody can help, then I fear there is not much else for you than read a good book on the topic. I recommend Kopka & Daly, 2004 (or perhaps there is a newer edition out). Don't try to customize anything, first. Try to get standard stuff working. Use TeXShop and read and follow tutorials.
Understand, BibDesk is only there to manage .bib files and perhaps extracting citations to insert into your TeX file. The rest is all TeX stuff and has nothing to do with BibDesk and I guess mostly with getting going with TeX (I mean of course LaTeXing). I repeat, TeXShop is an excellent starting point offering lots of help. Oh, and keep your .bib file in the same folder where you have your .tex file. Regards, Andreas Cited References: ------------------------ Kopka, H. & Daly, P. W., 2004 (ed. 4). Guide to LaTeX. Addison-Wesley: Boston, US. 597pp. Ko089 ETH Zurich Prof. Dr. Andreas Fischlin Systems Ecology - Institute of Integrative Biology CHN E 21.1 Universitaetstrasse 16 8092 Zurich SWITZERLAND [email protected] www.sysecol.ethz.ch +41 44 633-6090 phone +41 44 633-1136 fax +41 79 221-4657 mobile Make it as simple as possible, but distrust it! ________________________________________________________________________ On 10/08/2011, at 14:01 , Sebastian wrote: > Thanks for the explanation, Simon. > With looking up some of the terms, I think (!) I roughly understood it. :) > > But my bibliography still does not quite work: > The «The Not So Short Introduction to LATEX2ε» which I had looked at > earlier, simply recommends BibTex without much explanation on > Bibliographies. > > I have downloaded all the stuff recommended by Kirk > (http://bibdesk-users.661331.n2.nabble.com/Finding-for-customising-styles-td6655650.html). > and written > "\usepackage{biblatex}%Dies ist f¸r die Bibliothek > \usepackage{csquotes}%für biblatex" > in my preamble > and > "\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Bibliographie}% > \bibliography{standard} > \bibliographystyle{footnote-dw}" > at the end of my document. > > I have draged and droped one item of my BibDesk Library into my document, > which looks like this: > "\cite{Lange:1972gx}" > > When I try to compile, I get the following error: > "Package biblatex error: file xxxxx.bbl not created by biblatex" > (by the way: how can I copy and paste parts from the yellow error box?) > > I have also read about a third of the extensive pdf documention for biblatex > now, but this does not help me much. All the information about "entry types" > and "entry fields" assumes that I can enter information like authors and > titles in some fields of a visible program (like EndNote or BibDesk). > Where is this surface/program/set of entry fields for biblatex????? > > You are right, someone to do these first steps with me, would be really > helpful. Unfortunately the only friend of mine who has some LaTeX experience > is on holidays the next 3 weeks. In October I can probably take a course at > the university on LaTeX, but the "deadline" for my first chapter was > actually yesterday, so I should figure out the basics soon, since my > supervisor and I agree that it makes sense to take the time to format the > paper correctly now, instead of beginning it in Word and having to manually > edit it later. > > Liebe Grüße, > Sebastian > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://bibdesk-users.661331.n2.nabble.com/Finding-or-customising-styles-tp6655651p6672086.html > Sent from the bibdesk users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model > configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and > the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free > download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
