The programming gurus can no doubt give a more technical explanation, but
I¹m a long-time Filemaker user, and this should not be difficult. BibDesk
imports plain text files as long as they are formatted with the proper
identifying tags. Filemaker can easily add tags to text by means of
calculation fields.
For instance: below is a copy of the BibTex record of a basic article in
BibDesk. Take the author field, as an example. If you have the author¹s name
in Filemaker in First Name and Last Name fields, for example, you can
concatenate that with a calculation field, and simultaneously wrap the
BibTex tag and punctuation around it, like so: ³Author = {² +LastName + ³, ²
+ FirstName + ³},² . Create a calculated field like that each of the fields
you want to export. Then do another calculated field that concatenates all
of the 1st-tier calculated fields, and wraps them with the [EMAIL PROTECTED]
symbol and
the record type, such as ³article² or ³book² or whatever. Remember the final
³}². Then export that big super-concatenated field from all the records you
want, as a text file. That text can then be dragged into BibDesk.
I may be missing a few details here and there, since I¹m a little rusty on
Filemaker, but that¹s the basic idea. (And there might well be a more
elegant way to do it.)
It¹ll take a little setup, obviously, but not too bad IMHO.
@article{Boethius1948Ancient-Town-Architecture,
Author = {Boethius, Axel},
Journal = {The American Journal of Philology},
Number = {4},
Pages = {396--407},
Publisher = {The Johns Hopkins University Press},
Title = {Ancient Town Architecture and the New Material from Olynthus},
Volume = {69},
Year = {1948}}
Hope that helps.
On 4/22/08 10:48 PM, "Michael Chanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am a new user or thinking of it. What I need to know is this: I have a
> bibliography already set up in Filemaker, which I would like to import into
> BibDesk. Can I do this? If so, how? Grateful for any help.
>
> Michael C.
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