You should not drop the aux file on a single item, only drop on the whole
table, ie the whole table should be highlighted.
Does the aux file contain \bibcite commands? That's what we look for.
Christiaan
Op do 5 apr. 2018 23:02 schreef Jan David Hauck <jan.d.ha...@ucla.edu>:
> This seems a great functionality, but I recently tried it and it did not
> work.
> You meant dragging and dropping the aux file onto the BibDesk window the
> main table with entries, correct?
> When I do this either nothing happens, or, when one entry is highlighted
> the aux file is added as external file to that entry. What am I doing
> wrong?
>
> Jan David Hauck, Ph.D.
> Lecturer
> Department of Anthropology
> University of California, Los Angeles
>
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 3:21 AM, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> One way you can go is drop the .aux file on the main table. This will
>> select the cited items in the table. You can then export as bibtex, while
>> checking the selection option in the save panel.
>>
>> Christiaan
>>
>> Op 16 mrt. 2018 04:07 schreef "Lin, Eric X" <eric....@post.harvard.edu>:
>>
>>> sometimes, I want to create a static file of references from a paper
>>> that I've written. Rather than go through my bibliography to see what cites
>>> to manually add, I can use some of the aux files from the compilation
>>> process to quickly generate a list of cite keys that have been used in the
>>> paper. Is there a way to generate a static list in bibdesk based on this
>>> list of cite keys (the cite keys correspond to the entries that I have
>>> created in bibdesk?)?
>>>
>>> I can see one application of this is to quickly sort out which citations
>>> I have actually used recently, by grabbing all the cite keys that have
>>> appeared in my papers. Periodically, I could clean house on my bibdesk and
>>> weed out citations that I just don't use.
>>>
>>> If anyone knows a way to do that, I would very much appreciate help in
>>> figuring that out!
>>>
>>>
>>>
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