Hi Timothy,
On 26.05.2008, at 12:19, Timothy Roes wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I read the manual but still don't get what the difference is between
> using Templates and using Styles. I read Styles are really hard to
> develop, so I was wondering how to accomplish the following:
>
> As a law student, I use LaTeX (TeXShop editor for Mac) and have to add
> a lot of footnotes for case law, articles and books. Each of these
> classes have different official referencing rules, always depending on
> whether it's a footnote or a reference in the bibliography.
>
> Uptill now, I made several templates in which I incorporated the
> \footnote{} command. In BibDesk I used the "Copy using [Template]"
> submenu and then pasted that in TeXShop.
>
> Two questions:
> - Can this be done easier? Is it possible that I type \cite{key} in my
> LaTeX editor and that LaTeX then automatically generates a footnote
> and a reference in the bibliography, using a different template
> depending on whether it's an article, a book,...
>
> - In BibDesk, there's a Preview function which is very handy. Is there
> a way I can make the TeX preview be generated following the same
> templates? This would mean BibDesk used another template depending on
> the class of the source (article, book,...).
Ok, we touch the basics of BibTeX here; I try to be brief, but if I'm
too brief, please ask.
Originally, BibDesk was mainly meant for handling files for BibTeX.
BibTeX is programm which interacts with LaTeX to create
bibliographies. It does this by using so called .bst or style files.
What you're looking for – generating a reference inside a footnote
with one command – does exist; several style support it. Since you're
new to BibTeX and don't have any legacy to carry, I encourage you to
look at the biblatex package
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html
It's the most modern and versatile BibTeX style there is.
BibDesk's templates OTOH have nothing to do with BibTeX's proper. The
problem is/was that BibTeX styles are only really useful for use with
LaTeX; if you want to export your data to a word processor, they're
pretty useless. That's why the templates system was added which allows
you to set up export templates for HTML/RTF/DOC etc. This template
system has no relation to BibTeX/LaTeX. It uses a competey different
setup and produces other formats as output (and has differents
strengths and weaknesses). As long as you're working with BibTeX/LaTeX
there's little reason to use the template system (and vice versa).
So the bottom line is there are really two different systems at work
here: The traditional BibTeX/LaTeX setup and the template system.
That's why you can chose between styles and templates and what is
displayed in the preview. But you can't use BibDesk's templates for
LaTeX.
I hope that was a bit clear.
simon
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