5/28/2023 0 Comments Bibdesk not working![]() It’s certainly not a point and click solution – but it does let me use BibDesk with Word for those times that I need to use it. It uses a BibDesk template file to format the bibliography – so if you need a differently formatted reference list you have to understand the somewhat arcane template language that BibDesk uses. It’s certainly not “cite while you write” – but that doesn’t bother me, coming form the LaTeX world. If you delete an in-text citation, a reformat will remove it from the bibliography and so on. However, Derick Fay on the BibDesk mailing list pointed out BibFuse, which is a set of AppleScript‘s that allow you to drag citations from a BibDesk window into Word and then format them all at one go (with appropriate numbering). This was a pain since I had to make sure that I kept everything in sync (and the EndNote UI sucks!). As a result I still have to use that monstrosity called MS Word. The only problem is that I haven’t been to persuade all my collaborators to use LaTeX. It has built in search capabilities for a variety of databases (PubMed, Library of Congress, SciFinder), support tags, PDF storage and indexing and overall made my life much easier. ![]() It’s oriented towards BibTeX and LaTeX but easily exports to RIS, EndNote XML, RTF, HTML and RSS. This is a very nice GUI tool for managing references, with very responsive developers. See here and here for comparisons between various systems.īeing a Mac user I chose to work with BibDesk. There are many such systems, both Open Source ( JabRef, pybibliographer) and commercial (EndNote, RefWorks etc). This calls for a bibliographic data management system. ![]() I’d like to pull references from PubMed or SciFinder. However, dealing with bibliographies involves more than just choosing the right reference from a list. Since I work mainly in Emacs, coupled with AucTeX it makes for a very comfortable writing environment. This is a widely used plain text format for bibliographies. While it gives me beautifully typeset documents, it doesn’t handle bibliographic data management. Since writing papers is pretty much a way of life for an academic, I like to have tools that let me concentrate on the content, yet make beautiful documents with minimal effort on my part. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |