On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 8:27 PM, russmcb <[email protected]> wrote:

> O.k., let's try this again...  Apparently, this wasn't posting. Forgive the
> newbie question.
>
> After months of using Bibdesk to accumulate reference data I was shocked to
> find that exporting is non-trivial.  I need to do two things:
> 1- export in raw text the cite keys from selected records.
> 2- export a completed bibliography (in AMA or Chicago style) from selected
> records.
>
> Can someone point me in the correct direction?
>
> For #2, I would use biblatex in TeX Preview to generate a pdf. I use
XeLaTeX and biker, which I have set in BibDesk Preferences as follows:
Full path to pdflatex: /usr/texbin/xelatex
Full path to bibtex: /usr/texbin/biber

I made my own TeX template for Chicago, as follows, but you may not need
xelatex or polyglossia.
--Gildas Hamel

%!TEX TS-program = xelatex
%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
\documentclass[letterpaper]{article}
\pagestyle{plain}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[libertine={Ligatures=TeX}]{libertine}
%\textwidth = 6.5in
%\voffset = -105pt
%\hoffset = -120pt
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage[variant=american]{english}
\setotherlanguage[variant=ancient]{greek}
\setotherlanguage{french}
\setotherlanguage{german}
\setotherlanguage{hebrew}
\defaultfontfeatures{Scale=MatchLowercase}
\newfontfamily\hebrewfont[Script=Hebrew]{SBL Hebrew}
\newfontfamily\greekfont{SBL Greek}
\renewcommand{\refname}{}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[useprefix,firstinits=true,isbn=false]{biblatex-chicago}
\addbibresource{<<File>>.bib}
\renewcommand{\mkbibnamelast}{\textsc}
\setlength\bibitemsep{0pt}
%\defbibheading{bibliography}{\bibsection}

% The following command is provided for LaTeX2RTF compatibility with
amslatex.
%\newif\iflatextortf
%\iflatextortf
%\providecommand{\bysame}{\_\_\_\_\_}
%\fi

\begin{document}
\nocite{<<CiteKeys>>}

\printbibliography
\end{document}
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