On 21.05.2008, at 16:57, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > 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.
I know that the template doesn't contain this information – yet. But how about putting the template files and a plist file with the needed information in a package ... Doubleclick it and everything gets installed as it should ... simon -- Simon Spiegel Steinhaldenstr. 50 8002 Zürich Telephon: ++41 44 451 5334 Mobophon: ++41 76 459 60 39 http://www.simifilm.ch „When you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.“ Abraham Maslow ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
