On 21 May 2008, at 3:53 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: > Hi, > > recently I fiddled again with my templates. Much kudos from me, > BibDesk's templating system is now among the most powerful of any > software. It certainly beats Endnote et al. in terms of fexibility. > > There's just one area which I think could be improved and this is > exchange. I use biblatex for my LaTeX documents and my BibDesk > templates also make heavy use of the additional fields biblatex > provides. When I give my templates to someone else this requires quite > a bit of setup on his part: He has to add certain bibtex types and > certain fields in the prefs (for example, BibDesk needs to be told > that "translator", "redactor" and "foreword" has to be treated as > persons) and then assign the different templates to the different > document types. I wonder whether it would be possible to at least > partially skip this procedure. In a perfect world, adding a template > would already set up BibDesk in the desired way. I know this is > probably too complicated. But can at least part of the information > which is stored in the prefs also be put in the template (for example > which fields have to be treated as persons) in the template? I do see > a potential conflict on which settings should be set globally for the > app and which are template specific, but I think at least some > settings could easily be template specific. > > What do you think? > > simon > -- > Simon Spiegel > Steinhaldenstr. 50 > 8002 Zürich
The simple answer is: no. This is not possible. The template does not have type information and cannot contain it in any possible way. Just looking at the format should make this clear, it's just a text file where parts of the text are replaced. Christiaan > > > Telephon: ++41 44 451 5334 > Mobophon: ++41 76 459 60 39 > > > http://www.simifilm.ch > > „Was soll aus mir mal werden, wenn ich mal nicht mehr bin?“ Robert > Gernhardt > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
