On Jan 23, 2013, at 23:25, Gray, Wayne wrote:
> All,
>
> This seems like it should be easy but I can't figure it out.
>
> I have set my bibdesk up so that when I hold the option key down (on the
> Mac), I can copy an apalike formatted version of the citation. I would like
> to modify that to include the abstract -- ideally, the abstract would begin
> the line after the citation.
>
You mean you use "RTF description" from the popup?
> I have been into my preferences and for the Typeset Preview page found the
> Style and Template part of the windoid. That is showing "apalike" and I have
> opened the TeX template using the "Edit..." button and commented out the
> "\step[fieldset=abstract,null]" line thinking that this would then insert the
> abstract.
>
How the citation comes out depends on the bibtex style, not so much about the
latex style. I think you need a modified version of apalike.bst, because
apalike.bst this does not include the abstract. For instance, I found a
modified style hogg.bst on the web that seems to do this.
> I find that including the abstract along with the citation is something I do
> about 5 times a day when I send off emails to my grad students with a
> citation relevant to a question they have asked me about a research problem.
> Currently I am doing this the hard way -- inserting the apalike citation and
> then copying the abstract from bibdesk and pasting it below the citation in
> the email. It seems as if it should be easy to do this in one step. What I am
> not doing?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wayne Gray
Not necessarily in one step.
As an alternative, you may try to write a template that does what you want. But
that may be much harder.
Christiaan
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