Re: [Bibdesk-users] Finding or customising styles

2011-08-05 Thread Dan T. Abell
On 5 Aug 2011, at 09:39, Simon Spiegel wrote: > > On 05.08.2011, at 17:33, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: > >> On Aug 5, 2011, at 07:37, Simon Spiegel wrote: >> >>> On 05.08.2011, at 16:26, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: >>> Unless you're a TeXpert, those look worse than .bst files. >>> >>> Well, no, f

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Finding or customising styles

2011-08-05 Thread Maxwell, Adam R
On Aug 5, 2011, at 08:40, Dan T. Abell wrote: > fixing typo in file name: btxhak.pdf Thanks...I got mixed up with texhax :). -- BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobi

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Finding or customising styles

2011-08-05 Thread Dan T. Abell
fixing typo in file name: btxhak.pdf On 5 Aug 2011, at 09:33, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: > The bst language is documented in btxhax.pdf and btxbst.doc. Granted, it's > shorter than the 215 pages of biblatex.pdf, but that's not necessarily bad... --

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Finding or customising styles

2011-08-05 Thread Simon Spiegel
On 05.08.2011, at 17:33, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: > On Aug 5, 2011, at 07:37, Simon Spiegel wrote: > >> On 05.08.2011, at 16:26, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: >> >>> Unless you're a TeXpert, those look worse than .bst files. >> >> Well, no, for two reasons: >> >> - Biblatex is extensively documented (

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Finding or customising styles

2011-08-05 Thread Maxwell, Adam R
On Aug 5, 2011, at 07:37, Simon Spiegel wrote: > On 05.08.2011, at 16:26, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > >> Unless you're a TeXpert, those look worse than .bst files. > > Well, no, for two reasons: > > - Biblatex is extensively documented (contrary to the .bst format). Actually, > I'd say that bibla

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Finding or customising styles

2011-08-05 Thread Simon Spiegel
On 05.08.2011, at 16:26, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > > On Aug 5, 2011, at 07:04 , Simon Spiegel wrote: > >> if you need to make changes for your special needs, biblatex is pure joy, >> while changing .bst files is dark magic. > > What files do you change for biblatex? For biblatex-apa, I see ap

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Finding or customising styles

2011-08-05 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Aug 5, 2011, at 07:04 , Simon Spiegel wrote: > if you need to make changes for your special needs, biblatex is pure joy, > while changing .bst files is dark magic. What files do you change for biblatex? For biblatex-apa, I see apa.cbx and apa.bbx. Unless you're a TeXpert, those look worse

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Finding or customising styles

2011-08-05 Thread Simon Spiegel
On 05.08.2011, at 15:47, Gerrit Glabbart wrote: > > Am Freitag, 5. August 2011 schrieb Sebastian <273...@googlemail.com>: > > Hi there, > > > > I am a bloody beginner with LaTex and BibDesk and want to write my doctoral > > thesis in LaTex (if I manage to make this work!) > > > > For my field (T

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Finding or customising styles

2011-08-05 Thread Daniel Becker
Am 05.08.2011 um 15:47 schrieb Gerrit Glabbart: > If you're just getting started with LaTeX now, I would strongly suggest you > look at the BibLaTeX package (installed as standard in TeX Live, and possibly > MikTeX). It is being actively developed (which jurabib, iirc, is not), has a > detaile

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Finding or customising styles

2011-08-05 Thread Gerrit Glabbart
Am Freitag, 5. August 2011 schrieb Sebastian <273...@googlemail.com>: > Hi there, > > I am a bloody beginner with LaTex and BibDesk and want to write my doctoral > thesis in LaTex (if I manage to make this work!) > > For my field (Theology in Germany) I need a bibliography style that produces > a f

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Finding or customising styles

2011-08-05 Thread Dan T. Abell
On 5 Aug 2011, at 02:06, Sebastian wrote: > Hi there, > > I am a bloody beginner with LaTex and BibDesk and want to write my doctoral > thesis in LaTex (if I manage to make this work!) Smart choice. And good luck! > For my field (Theology in Germany) I need a bibliography style that produces >

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Finding or customising styles

2011-08-05 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Aug 5, 2011, at 01:06 , Sebastian wrote: > I am happy to switch to a different style, but could not find a suitable one > so far. > I could modify the style, but I have never programmed anything and have no > idea where to start deleting or changing things when I open the style I suggest

Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibDesk Bug

2011-08-05 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Aug 5, 2011, at 01:13 , Dmitry wrote: > Could it be a bug to do with the encoding used? Yes, the junk characters are probably the UTF-16 BOM. If you explicitly open it as UTF-16, though, either by setting it as your default encoding or in the open panel, it should work (IIRC...it's been a

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Finding for customising styles

2011-08-05 Thread Kirk Lowery
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 4:05 AM, Sebastian <273...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I am a bloody beginner with LaTex and BibDesk and want to write my doctoral > thesis in LaTex (if I manage to make this work!) Welcome to the adventure! > For my field (Theology in Germany) I need a bibliography style tha

[Bibdesk-users] BibDesk Bug

2011-08-05 Thread Dmitry
Does anyone else have this program. Say I create a new .bib file in bibdesk: %% This BibTeX bibliography file was created using BibDesk. %% http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/ %% Created for Dmitry Trushchenkov at 2011-08-05 09:06:13 +0100 %% Saved with string encoding Unicode (UTF-16) @articl

[Bibdesk-users] Finding or customising styles

2011-08-05 Thread Sebastian
Hi there, I am a bloody beginner with LaTex and BibDesk and want to write my doctoral thesis in LaTex (if I manage to make this work!) For my field (Theology in Germany) I need a bibliography style that produces a full reference in a footnote and in the bibliography. I found the style "jurabib" w

[Bibdesk-users] Finding for customising styles

2011-08-05 Thread Sebastian
Hi there, I am a bloody beginner with LaTex and BibDesk and want to write my doctoral thesis in LaTex (if I manage to make this work!) For my field (Theology in Germany) I need a bibliography style that produces a full reference in a footnote and in the bibliography. I found the style "jurabib" w