hey. Thanks a Million!
I added the usepackage in the template file and it worked just fine.
best regards and a great day,
christian
On Jul 22, 2010, at 2:33 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
> On Jul 22, 2010, at 2:05, Christian Gläser wrote:
>
>>
>> Dear List Members,
>>
>> i know it's an often discussed problem but it doesnt work for me. I can get
>> the preview only for the generic styles from the pull down list in the
>> Bibdesk preferences, like the abbrv. The help file tells me just to type in
>> any style. So i typed in e.g. dcu, then the warning comes that the style
>> might have to be edited or to be used anyhow,
>
> Not the "style", the "TeX template file". Many non-standard styles require
> additional latex styles (.sty) to be used (\usepackage). That's what the
> alert says. We can't know which those are (so we can't provide support for
> it), you should know what to do when you're using the style and edit the tex
> template file accordingly. You can find the tex template file from the
> preferences.
>
>> the latter resulting in an error log (see end of mail).
>>
>> my path to bibtex is /usr/texbin/bibtex
>> i just did the standard mactex installation without changing anything
>> and i dont have any tex document yet, just setting up the bibdesk so far.
>>
>> My Question would be, is it possible to preview any style in bibdesk, or
>> only the generic ones?
>>
>> Thank you for your help,
>> Christian
>
> You can in principle use any style, as long as the tex template is supporting
> it, and the .bst file can be found (i.e. is in the search paths for them).
>
> Christiaan
>
>>
>>
>>
>> TeX preview generation failed. Please review the log below to determine the
>> cause.
>>
>> ***** WARNING: You are using a non-standard BibTeX style *****
>> The style "dcu" may require additional \usepackage commands to function
>> correctly.
>>
>> ---------- TeX log file ----------
>> File:
>> "/var/folders/oS/oS+MIEy+FVuD6FlfqZPgik+++TI/-Tmp-/bibdesk.fKkbSu/bibpreview/bibpreview.log"
>> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009) (format=pdflatex
>> 2010.7.5) 22 JUL 2010 01:39
>> entering extended mode
>> %&-line parsing enabled.
>> **bibpreview
>> (./bibpreview.tex
>> LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
>> Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang,
>> noh
>> yphenation, german-x-2009-06-19, ngerman-x-2009-06-19, ancientgreek, ibycus,
>> ar
>> abic, basque, bulgarian, catalan, pinyin, coptic, croatian, czech, danish,
>> dutc
>> h, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, galician, german, ngerman,
>> mono
>> greek, greek, hungarian, icelandic, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian,
>> ku
>> rmanji, latin, latvian, lithuanian, mongolian, mongolian2a, bokmal, nynorsk,
>> po
>> lish, portuguese, romanian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian,
>> span
>> ish, swedish, turkish, ukenglish, ukrainian, uppersorbian, welsh, loaded.
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
>> Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo
>> File: size10.clo 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
>> )
>> \...@part=\count79
>> \...@section=\count80
>> \...@subsection=\count81
>> \...@subsubsection=\count82
>> \...@paragraph=\count83
>> \...@subparagraph=\count84
>> \...@figure=\count85
>> \...@table=\count86
>> \abovecaptionskip=\skip41
>> \belowcaptionskip=\skip42
>> \bibindent=\dimen102
>> ) (./bibpreview.aux)
>> \openout1 = `bibpreview.aux'.
>>
>> LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for OML/cmm/m/it on input line 14.
>> LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 14.
>> LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for T1/cmr/m/n on input line 14.
>> LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 14.
>> LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for OT1/cmr/m/n on input line 14.
>> LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 14.
>> LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for OMS/cmsy/m/n on input line 14.
>> LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 14.
>> LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for OMX/cmex/m/n on input line 14.
>> LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 14.
>> LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for U/cmr/m/n on input line 14.
>> LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 14.
>>
>> LaTeX Warning: Citation `lamoreaux1989a' undefined on input line 15.
>>
>> (./bibpreview.bbl
>> ! Undefined control sequence.
>> l.3 \harvarditem
>> [Lamoreaux et~al.]{Lamoreaux, Hughes, Memon \harvardand\
>> The control sequence at the end of the top line
>> of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
>> misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
>> spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
>> and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.
>>
>> ! Undefined control sequence.
>> l.3 ...t~al.]{Lamoreaux, Hughes, Memon \harvardand
>> \
>> The control sequence at the end of the top line
>> of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
>> misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
>> spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
>> and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.
>>
>> ! Undefined control sequence.
>> l.5 ...eaux, P., Hughes, T., Memon, B. \harvardand
>> \ Lineback, N.
>> The control sequence at the end of the top line
>> of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
>> misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
>> spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
>> and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.
>>
>> ! Undefined control sequence.
>> l.6 \harvardyearleft
>> 1989\harvardyearright .
>> The control sequence at the end of the top line
>> of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
>> misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
>> spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
>> and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.
>>
>> ! Undefined control sequence.
>> l.6 \harvardyearleft 1989\harvardyearright
>> .
>> The control sequence at the end of the top line
>> of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
>> misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
>> spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
>> and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.
>>
>>
>> LaTeX Warning: Empty `thebibliography' environment on input line 10.
>>
>> ) [1
>>
>> {/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}]
>> (./bibp
>> review.aux)
>>
>> LaTeX Warning: There were undefined references.
>>
>> )
>> Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
>> 216 strings out of 493848
>> 2371 string characters out of 3149208
>> 48936 words of memory out of 3000000
>> 3571 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+200000
>> 4899 words of font info for 18 fonts, out of 3000000 for 9000
>> 714 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191
>> 23i,4n,19p,154b,133s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,50000s
>> </usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmbx10.pfb
>>> </usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr10.pfb><
>> /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmti10.pfb>
>> Output written on bibpreview.pdf (1 page, 39193 bytes).
>> PDF statistics:
>> 18 PDF objects out of 1000 (max. 8388607)
>> 0 named destinations out of 1000 (max. 500000)
>> 1 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 10000 (max. 10000000)
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- BibTeX log file -------
>> File:
>> "/var/folders/oS/oS+MIEy+FVuD6FlfqZPgik+++TI/-Tmp-/bibdesk.fKkbSu/bibpreview/bibpreview.blg"
>> This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (TeX Live 2009)
>> The top-level auxiliary file: bibpreview.aux
>> The style file: dcu.bst
>> Database file #1: bibpreview.bib
>> You've used 1 entry,
>> 2921 wiz_defined-function locations,
>> 642 strings with 4887 characters,
>> and the built_in function-call counts, 6267 in all, are:
>> = -- 1030
>>> -- 91
>> < -- 0
>> + -- 506
>> - -- 28
>> * -- 557
>> := -- 1239
>> add.period$ -- 2
>> call.type$ -- 1
>> change.case$ -- 14
>> chr.to.int$ -- 1
>> cite$ -- 1
>> duplicate$ -- 14
>> empty$ -- 33
>> format.name$ -- 31
>> if$ -- 1123
>> int.to.chr$ -- 5
>> int.to.str$ -- 0
>> missing$ -- 1
>> newline$ -- 7
>> num.names$ -- 11
>> pop$ -- 1
>> preamble$ -- 1
>> purify$ -- 15
>> quote$ -- 0
>> skip$ -- 15
>> stack$ -- 0
>> substring$ -- 1480
>> swap$ -- 2
>> text.length$ -- 14
>> text.prefix$ -- 0
>> top$ -- 0
>> type$ -- 4
>> warning$ -- 0
>> while$ -- 23
>> width$ -- 0
>> write$ -- 17
>>
>>
>> ---------- BibDesk info ----------
>> <BDSKTeXTask: 0x10d81c0> {
>> ivars:
>> delegate = "(null)"
>> file name = "bibpreview"
>> template = "/Users/Pluto/Library/Application
>> Support/BibDesk/previewtemplate.tex"
>> TeX file =
>> "/var/folders/oS/oS+MIEy+FVuD6FlfqZPgik+++TI/-Tmp-/bibdesk.fKkbSu/bibpreview/bibpreview.tex"
>> BibTeX file =
>> "/var/folders/oS/oS+MIEy+FVuD6FlfqZPgik+++TI/-Tmp-/bibdesk.fKkbSu/bibpreview/bibpreview.bib"
>> TeX binary path = "/usr/texbin"
>> Encoding = "Western (ASCII)"
>> BibTeX style = "dcu"
>> Helper files = (
>> )
>>
>> environment:
>> SHELL = "/bin/bash"
>> BIBINPUTS = "(null)"
>> BSTINPUTS = "(null)"
>> PATH = "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/texbin:/usr/texbin" }
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