Hello Nathan, It was never really intended to be ambitious! It just grew every time I needed extra functionality, this is where it ended up (I should have released it ages ago really).
As I understand it, Pandoc is for outputting different formats at the end; WordScript is for people who (forced or otherwise) do the entire writing process in Word, which is common outside of the sciences. The advantage is that you can add and remove references on the fly, collaborate on a shared document, and use placeholders to fill in later, so as not to break your flow. I am in the process of writing proper documentation beyond the ReadMe. It does use BibDesk Templates for all of the styles I’m afraid! The included bibliography template is a standard Harvard style, the one I used for my PhD thesis. It is very easy switch templates—so long as you have another one handy of course! I don’t know about CSL files, can BibDesk read/convert them? I would be open to hosting a set of templates for specific journals. Zotero would be a perfectly reasonable alternative to BibDesk, but I am a BibDesk user and like AppleScripts! I expect the number of people in the humanities who use BibDesk is really quite small, but this was useful and fun for me and it might be for someone else as well. David > On 22 Jan 2021, at 16:42, nathan.art...@softhome.net wrote: > > This is an ambitious AppleScript! As I wrote in a message to this list last > year about "BibDesk and Microsoft Word in 2020", Pandoc is also a useful > intermediary between BibDesk and Word. Pandoc is what I use when I need > output in Word format. One of Pandoc's advantages is that one can use a wide > variety of existing CSL (Citation Style Language) files for different > bibliography styles. Zotero also uses CSL files. It's not clear from > WordScript's README file which bibliography styles it supports. Does one have > to write a different BibDesk export template if one wants to use a different > bibliography style? That could end up being much extra work for a user who > needs to switch bibliography styles frequently, and Pandoc or Zotero may be a > better option for such a user. > > > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
