On 01.09.2011, at 22:31, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > On Sep 1, 2011, at 21:16, Christian Pleul wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> At the moment I am moving from bibtex to biblatex. I already find the new >> possibilities with biblatex (customization, better type definition etc.) >> very nice. >> >> Since an appropriate customization of BibDesk for biblatex (e.g. entry types >> and fields) is already possible, but still very time consuming. Do you plan >> a build in full support for biblatex in an upcoming BibDesk versions, e.g. >> BibDesk 2? >> >> >> Best, >> -- >> Christian >> > > No.The big problem with biblatex is that they don't have sensible ideas about > required and optional fields, they really have far, far, far too many fields. > We cannot support that in a sensible way.
While I don't think that biblatex has too many fields, I surely agree that it doesn't make sense to have BibDesk support all possible biblatex fields out of the box. It's a fact that you will always make use of only a specific subset of all of biblatex's fields depending on the field you're in. I'm in humanities for example, and I will never use document types like @patent or @techreport. But on the other hand I absolutely need stuff like bookauthor or maintitle which someone in hard sciences probably will never use. But there are other ways how the biblatex support could be improved: For example offer biblatex as a default style for TeX Preview by default and/or biber as a possible default program Preview. Or crossrefs: biblatex/biber has a much more logical approach than BibTeX on how the different fields are mapped between linked entries. ATM BibDesk follows the old way. Simon -- Simon Spiegel Steinhaldenstr. 50 8002 Zürich Telephon: ++41 44 451 5334 Mobophon: ++41 76 459 6039 http://www.simifilm.ch „Was soll aus mir mal werden, wenn ich mal nicht mehr bin?“ Robert Gernhardt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
