James,

Thanks so much for all of the work that you have done on this great  
collection. The ability to work in both Latex and word processing  
documents from a common bibliography manager is incredibly useful.

Best,

Jim Delaney
University of Toronto

On 10-Mar-08, at 1:41 PM, James Harrison wrote:

> CiteInPages comprises four Applescripts for use with the open source
> reference manager BibDesk and Apple's word processor, Pages (v. 3,
> from iWork '08). Using BibDesk templates, "working citations"
> containing BibTeX cite keys in a defined format can be dragged or
> inserted by script from BibDesk into Pages documents as the documents
> are edited. CiteInPages replaces these "working citations" with
> numbered or author-date in-text citations, creates a correctly-ordered
> bibliography based on a BibDesk template, and pastes the bibliography
> into the Pages document. It has advantages over commercial reference
> managers for use with Pages because it works on native Pages files
> through Pages itself and does not require converting the file to rtf,
> which may cause some loss of information, inserted images or layout
> features. CiteInPages is freely available for use and modification
> with a BSD license. The scripts support sequentially-numbered,
> alphabetically-numbered and author-date citation and bibliography
> styles.
>
> http://jhh.med.virginia.edu/main/CiteInPages
>
> Changes in CiteInPages 1.0:
>
> 1. A new CiteInPages script is included, "alpha-numbered," which sorts
> and numbers the bibliography alphabetically and uses those numbers for
> in-text citations.
>
> 2. A property, italicCitations, was added to the numbered and alpha-
> numbered scripts that allows full-sized in-text numbered citations to
> be styled as italic.
>
> 3. In-text citations may now include an internal notation that
> suppresses enclosure with delimiters or superscripting for that
> citation.
>
> 4. Users may insert an XML tag into Pages documents that allows
> setting script properties on-the-fly.
>
> 5. Scripts now check for the presence of the specified bibliography
> template file at the start of the run and warn if it is not found.
>
> 6. Versioning and other information is included in templates using
> InfoKey tags.
>
> 7. The text citation script has been modified to accommodate an
> Applescript or Pages bug that just cropped up.
>
> Sort of known issue:
>
> I haven't been able to duplicate the problem in Leopard, but some
> users report that the CiteInPages scripts fail when file name
> extensions are hidden in the Finder. For that reason, it's recommended
> that hiding file name extensions be turned off when the scripts are
> used.
>
> Jim Harrison
> University of Virginia
>
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