On 21 May 2008, at 7:03 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: > > 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
Which makes it even more of a hassle for a user to add templates. Moreover you'll get questions about what takes preference, and reports from users saying that their pref settings are ignored. Sorry, I'm not going into that wasp nest. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
