Re: [Bibdesk-users] what is bibdesk?

2007-10-09 Thread jiho
On 2007-October-09 , at 19:39 , Ingrid Giffin wrote: > On 10/9/07 7:20 AM, "Bruce Pourciau" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Oct 7, 2007, at 9:47 PM, Ingrid Giffin wrote: >>> I tried looking at MacTex (I think it was), but I really don’t >>> need the >>> heavy typesetting capabilities. I ra

Re: [Bibdesk-users] what is bibdesk? at a tangent

2007-10-09 Thread Jason Davies
>Doesn't a custom Local File field work, when you have set iTunes as the >system default for opening podcasts? I was thinking more about referencing for publication and dissemination... - This SF.net email is sponsored by: S

Re: [Bibdesk-users] what is bibdesk? at a tangent

2007-10-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Doesn't a custom Local File field work, when you have set iTunes as the system default for opening podcasts? Christiaan On 9 Oct 2007, at 5:47 PM, Jason Davies wrote: > incidentally, is there an 'accepted' way to link to things like > podcasts (yet)? As more and more become legitimate sources

Re: [Bibdesk-users] what is bibdesk?

2007-10-09 Thread Ingrid Giffin
On 10/9/07 7:20 AM, "Bruce Pourciau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 7, 2007, at 9:47 PM, Ingrid Giffin wrote: > >> >> I tried looking at MacTex (I think it was), but I really don¹t need the >> heavy typesetting capabilities. I ran screaming to Mellel. I use BibDesk for >> my master pu

Re: [Bibdesk-users] what is bibdesk? at a tangent

2007-10-09 Thread Nathan Paxton
We might take a look at http://thedata.org/citation and http:// gking.harvard.edu/files/cite.pdf These try to take a look at linking to the thing itself rather than a location for the thing. -N On 9 Oct 2007, at 11:47 AM, Jason Davies wrote: incidentally, is there an 'accepted' way to li

Re: [Bibdesk-users] what is bibdesk? at a tangent

2007-10-09 Thread Jason Davies
incidentally, is there an 'accepted' way to link to things like podcasts (yet)? As more and more become legitimate sources (prestigious speakers and stable access), is anyone thinking about how to cite them? In the meantime, does anyone have any sugestions (eg can we get a unique link to use in

Re: [Bibdesk-users] what is bibdesk?

2007-10-09 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Oct 9, 2007, at 04:07, jiho wrote: > On 2007-October-08 , at 18:37 , Maxwell, Adam R wrote: >> On 10/08/07 09:21, "jiho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > latex2rtf used to always output (SomeName, > 2000; SomeOtherName, 2004) instead of what was specified in bibpunct. > Anyway, that seems fix

Re: [Bibdesk-users] what is bibdesk?

2007-10-09 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Oct 7, 2007, at 9:47 PM, Ingrid Giffin wrote: I tried looking at MacTex (I think it was), but I really don’t need the heavy typesetting capabilities. I ran screaming to Mellel. I use BibDesk for my master publications database because the interface is so nice, although, as I said in ano

Re: [Bibdesk-users] what is bibdesk?

2007-10-09 Thread jiho
On 2007-October-08 , at 18:37 , Maxwell, Adam R wrote: > On 10/08/07 09:21, "jiho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 2007-October-08 , at 18:03 , Simon Spiegel wrote: > [...] > >> I also use latex2rtf but simply because there is no real alternative. >> I also found it has many limitations: >> - I

Re: [Bibdesk-users] what is bibdesk?

2007-10-08 Thread Simon Spiegel
On 08.10.2007, at 19:14, Jason Davies wrote: >>> I will put in another vote for this strategy, which I use >>> frequently. >>> I haven't had any problems with using bib styles of my own creation, >>> either. >> >> IME latex2rtf is way too limited. It doesn't produce anything useful >> with eith

Re: [Bibdesk-users] what is bibdesk?

2007-10-08 Thread Jason Davies
>>I will put in another vote for this strategy, which I use frequently. >>I haven't had any problems with using bib styles of my own creation, >>either. > >IME latex2rtf is way too limited. It doesn't produce anything useful >with either jurabib nor biblatex which is a big problem for people in >hu

Re: [Bibdesk-users] what is bibdesk?

2007-10-08 Thread Maxwell, Adam R
On 10/08/07 09:21, "jiho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-October-08 , at 18:03 , Simon Spiegel wrote: >> IME latex2rtf is way too limited. It doesn't produce anything useful >> with either jurabib nor biblatex which is a big problem for people in >> humanities. There's no point in supp

Re: [Bibdesk-users] what is bibdesk?

2007-10-08 Thread jiho
On 2007-October-08 , at 18:03 , Simon Spiegel wrote: > On 08.10.2007, at 17:30, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: >> On Oct 8, 2007, at 10:35 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: >>> On Oct 8, 2007, at 04:10, Jason Davies wrote: > As an alternative for collaborative work that has to use some > kind of >

Re: [Bibdesk-users] what is bibdesk?

2007-10-08 Thread Simon Spiegel
On 08.10.2007, at 17:30, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: > On Oct 8, 2007, at 10:35 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > >> >> On Oct 8, 2007, at 04:10, Jason Davies wrote: >> As an alternative for collaborative work that has to use some kind of "widely accepted commercial software", I use LaTeX

Re: [Bibdesk-users] what is bibdesk?

2007-10-08 Thread Adam M. Goldstein
On Oct 8, 2007, at 10:35 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > > On Oct 8, 2007, at 04:10, Jason Davies wrote: > >>> As an alternative for collaborative work that has to use some >>> kind of >>> "widely accepted commercial software", I use LaTeX / BibTeX > >>> latex2rtf. So I can at least write my initia

Re: [Bibdesk-users] what is bibdesk?

2007-10-08 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Oct 8, 2007, at 04:10, Jason Davies wrote: >> As an alternative for collaborative work that has to use some kind of >> "widely accepted commercial software", I use LaTeX / BibTeX > >> latex2rtf. So I can at least write my initial text and citations in a >> manner that does not completely drive

Re: [Bibdesk-users] what is bibdesk?

2007-10-08 Thread Jason Davies
>As an alternative for collaborative work that has to use some kind of >"widely accepted commercial software", I use LaTeX / BibTeX > >latex2rtf. So I can at least write my initial text and citations in a >manner that does not completely drive me crazy… yes, I've been doing this increasingly too.

Re: [Bibdesk-users] what is bibdesk?

2007-10-08 Thread Stephan Kurz
On Mo, 8.10.2007, 10:28, Andreas Reinecke wrote: > > Am 08.10.2007 um 06:33 schrieb Adam R. Maxwell: > >> I've always had the same impression: most of us use LaTeX, although I >> now know of at least four on this list who don't. >> > Well, then I will be #5 on your list. To me, BD is a great > appl

Re: [Bibdesk-users] what is bibdesk?

2007-10-08 Thread Andreas Reinecke
Am 08.10.2007 um 06:33 schrieb Adam R. Maxwell: ... I've always had the same impression: most of us use LaTeX, although I now know of at least four on this list who don't. Well, then I will be #5 on your list. To me, BD is a great application to administrate and browse my references. But w

Re: [Bibdesk-users] what is bibdesk?

2007-10-08 Thread Bernd
Same here, a XeLaTeX user. I'm actually pretty clueless how to do stuff other than BibTeX with BD. For me BD is the interface between source and XeLaTeX which also gives me the chance to collect and review my bibs. Once everything is complete I only access my data via BibTeX. --

Re: [Bibdesk-users] what is bibdesk?

2007-10-07 Thread Simon Spiegel
> >> I can imagine that Tex held some appeal to some people at some point >> in time, but there is little use I see in it for myself. For me, >> TextEdit is more easy and flexible. > > Depends. On the negative side, I find LaTeX code annoying to read and > write, and things like encodings and fo

Re: [Bibdesk-users] what is bibdesk?

2007-10-07 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Oct 7, 2007, at 19:36, P Kishor wrote: > On 10/7/07, Derick Fay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> I'm not one of the developers but you both know that Bibdesk is a >> software for generating Bibtex-files which are used in LaTeX- >> documents. >> I wonder how many users would agree with this

Re: [Bibdesk-users] what is bibdesk?

2007-10-07 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Oct 7, 2007, at 20:58, Michael McCracken wrote: > On 10/7/07, Derick Fay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I'm not one of the developers but you both know that Bibdesk is a >> software for generating Bibtex-files which are used in LaTeX- >> documents. >> I wonder how many users would agree with

Re: [Bibdesk-users] what is bibdesk?

2007-10-07 Thread Michael McCracken
On 10/7/07, Derick Fay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm not one of the developers but you both know that Bibdesk is a > software for generating Bibtex-files which are used in LaTeX- > documents. > I wonder how many users would agree with this characterization -- I don't > use BibTex at all - do

Re: [Bibdesk-users] what is bibdesk?

2007-10-07 Thread Ingrid Giffin
On 10/7/07 8:36 PM, "P Kishor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mellel + Bookends seems to do exactly what I dream of, but I don't want to use > Mellel because it can't handle South Asian scripts. Possibly veering off topic here, but FYI, there is a thread on this at http://forum.redlers.com/viewto

Re: [Bibdesk-users] what is bibdesk?

2007-10-07 Thread Ingrid Giffin
On 10/7/07 6:52 PM, "Derick Fay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm not one of the developers but you both know that Bibdesk is a   >> software for generating Bibtex-files which are used in LaTeX-  >> documents.  > > I wonder how many users would agree with this characterization -- I don't use >

Re: [Bibdesk-users] what is bibdesk?

2007-10-07 Thread P Kishor
On 10/7/07, Derick Fay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm not one of the developers but you both know that Bibdesk is a > software for generating Bibtex-files which are used in LaTeX- > documents. > I wonder how many users would agree with this characterization -- I don't > use BibTex at all - do

[Bibdesk-users] what is bibdesk?

2007-10-07 Thread Derick Fay
I'm not one of the developers but you both know that Bibdesk is a software for generating Bibtex-files which are used in LaTeX- documents. I wonder how many users would agree with this characterization -- I don't use BibTex at all - do most other BibDesk users? I see BibDesk as a reference m