John Jason Jordan wrote: > OOo 2.4, Ubuntu x86_64 > > I have a bibliography created in Tellico. Tellico is a cool little app > for managing book collections. The neat part about it is that all you > need to enter is the ISBN number, then click to Update the entry. > Tellico goes out on the net and searches Amazon and several other > online databases, finds the book, and retrieves all the information > about it online, even an image of the front cover, if available. This > saves an enormous amount of typing. > > I want to be able to merge selected entries into a bibliography in a > Writer document. From Tellico I can export in various formats, > including xml, html, zip, csv, pilotdb, bibtex, bibtexml, and onix. So > far I have tried xml and csv, but can't get either one registered with > Base. Let me explain in more detail, using my experience with csv as an > example. > > I opened Base and checked "Connect to an existing database," and > selected "text" in the drop-down box. In the next window I entered the > path to the .csv file and checked the radio button for "'Comma > separated value' files." In the next window I left the default items > checked: "Yes, register the database for me" and "Open the database for > editing." When I clicked on Finish it opened a window showing the > folder that I specified in the first step, but no files appear in the > window. There is a spinbox that says "ODF Database," but when I select > it that is the only option. It should list all the database types, > including csv, but it does not. Since I cannot tell it to look for .csv > files it displays no files in the window. The file is definitely there > - tellico_bibliography.csv - it's just the Base can't see it. > > What am I doing wrong?
This may not really answer your query directly, but have you looked at Zotero? It is also a bibliography manager. However, I am not sure how it fares in comparison with Tellico, but it works very well with OOo as an add on. You may want to give it a try: http://www.zotero.org/. Tthe latest version is 1.0.7. They are also working a "sync preview" version which will let one store their database on one central location and access it from anywhere. Zotero is installed as Firefox add on. I sugget Zotero because I have experienced that it is much more powerful than OOo's Biblio (at least in OOo 2.4) when it deals with citations and bibliography. Moreover, it appears to understand far more formats while importing and exporting bibliography items. Good luck, ->HS --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
