On Jan 17, 2013, at 17:27, dstall wrote: > Please explain in simple, non technical detail for someone who knows nothing > whatsoever about TeX, MMD, etc., in clear steps 1, 2, 3, etc. . . > > How can I format output of BibDesk entries to a particular bibliography > style? >
There are many ways for this. The primary way intended by Bibdesk is to use it with bibtex. Anyway, it depends a lot on how you want to use it, with which editor or typesetter program. > Where do I find sample of how BibDesk template is used in BibDesk, and > sample templates for bibliography styles (mainly Chicago, but maybe also > others, e.g. MLA, etc.)? > As a starting point look at the Wiki. There are also some mentioned in the past on this list. For many of these questions, first go to the Wiki and read what's on this there. After that you will have some more understanding, and you can ask more specific and useful questions. > How do I tell BibDesk which template to use for export? > Again, read the Wiki. And the Help. Register the template in the prefs, then you can select it from the export panel. For copying, you can select it from the Copy As menus. Or you can set a default template in the prefs. > I want to use BibDesk for independent research (no degree program involved) > to output bibliography entries in various styles for copy from BibDesk to > paste in Scrivener. > > I have installed MacTeX, and may use MMD and LaTeX at some later point, but > for now I just want to be able to copy bibliography entries in a designated > style from BibDesk to Scrivener, since there doesn't seem to be any way of > decoding BibDesk cite strings directly in Scrivener. > > I have added an article entry to BibDesk using default categories, but when > I export as RTF, the output is the same as displayed for the entry in the > lower window of BibDesk, which is a stacked vertical listing. > The following is what appears when exported as HTML - > Phillips:2000uq > The Orthodox West: Old Britain and New England > Phillips, Andrew > Orthodox England 3 4 (2000) > > The '3' is entered in BibDesk for Volume, and '4' was entered for Number of > Pages. > The output doesn't make any sense of the volume and pages, and is formatted > as stacked, vertical list instead of linear, horizontal bibliography format, > e.g. - > Phillips, Andrew, The Orthodox West: Old Britain and New England, > Orthodox England, Vol. 3, March 2000, 4 pp. The RTF output is based on bibtex. So it depends on the bibtex style that you use. This is set in the prefs. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122712 _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
