On 17.08.2011, at 19:22, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > > On Aug 17, 2011, at 09:17 , Simon Spiegel wrote: > >> Biblatex actually has a type @journal > > I don't see that in its documentation,
You're right I was mistaken. > though I see there are other ways it's incompatible with BibTeX (changing > journal to journaltitle in @article? really?). While journatitle is encouraged, journal still works. > Biblatex should have started with its own file format. In a way it has its own file format which just has a lot in common with BibTeX. And I don't see any reason why it should have something completely new. After all, I couldn't use BibDesk then. But honestly I don't really understand your criticism. About every bibtex style which is more advanced than the original ones has had its own extensions, many of them are not compatible (for example – website or online or electronic? Urldate or lastchecked?). Before I used biblatex I used jurabib (back then about the only useable style for German speaking humanities); this style already had various fields most other styles didn't support. New incompatible extensions are nothing new, they have been a part of bibtex for years. And the broken export of Applied Physics Letters is really nothing extraordinary. I don't think I've actually ever seen an online catalogue which did export 100% correct bibtex. Simon -- Simon Spiegel Steinhaldenstr. 50 8002 Zürich Telephon: ++41 44 451 5334 Mobophon: ++41 76 459 6039 http://www.simifilm.ch „Im Zweifelsfall entscheide man sich für das Richtige.“ Karl Kraus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-d2d-2 _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
