I use biblatex, and I haven't had a problem with this.
On bibdesk, I goto Database/Select Publications from .aux file, and it
brings up a finder window to find the file. When I select that, it all
works well!
Eric
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Warmly,
Eric
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ERIC LIN
eric@post.harvard.edu
On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 3:32 PM, Jan David Hauck <jan.d.ha...@ucla.edu>
wrote:
> It seems like that's the way BibLaTeX does it in general, yes. Even with
> regular (non Chicago) BibLaTeX I get these commands.
>
> Jan David Hauck, Ph.D.
> Lecturer
> Department of Anthropology
> University of California, Los Angeles
>
> On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 11:24 AM, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> It's probably biblatex. But I don't know much about that. Is it always
>> creating these commands in the aux file?
>>
>> Christiaan
>>
>> Op vr 6 apr. 2018 19:28 schreef Jan David Hauck <jan.d.ha...@ucla.edu>:
>>
>>> I’m using BibLaTeX-Chicago.
>>> Is that why?
>>>
>>> I just tried replacing \abx@aux@cite with bibcite and it works so
>>> that’s a workaround.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 10:19 Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> That explains why it doesn't work. Are you using some custom style?
>>>>
>>>> Christiaan
>>>>
>>>> Op vr 6 apr. 2018 18:20 schreef Jan David Hauck <jan.d.ha...@ucla.edu>:
>>>>
>>>>> Hmm,
>>>>> it doesn't have any \bibcite commands.
>>>>> They all look like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> \abx@aux@cite{Strathern:1980}
>>>>> \abx@aux@segm{0}{0}{Strathern:1980}
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Jan David Hauck, Ph.D.
>>>>> Lecturer
>>>>> Department of Anthropology
>>>>> University of California, Los Angeles
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 2:20 AM, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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
