Re: [Bibdesk-users] BibDesk and glossaries package

[Christian <mai...@gm...>]

Am 28.01.2009 um 22:06 schrieb Christiaan Hofman:
> On 28 Jan 2009, at 9:33 PM, Christian wrote:
>> Am 28.01.2009 um 20:43 schrieb Christiaan Hofman:
>>> On 28 Jan 2009, at 8:16 PM, Christian wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I know that BibDesk works together with the gloss package to create
>>>> libraries for a glossar.
>>>> Because the glossaries package is more up to date and more  
>>>> flexible,
>>>> it would be nice if BibDesk would work for glossaries as it does  
>>>> for
>>>> gloss.
>>>> I think it would be necessary to provide a gui with the appropriate
>>>> fields and save it as a tex file.
>>>>
>>>> Would there be a way that this will happen in the future?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Christian
>>>
>>> I don't know anything about what you're talking. is it some kind of
>>> bibtex support package? Any bibtex type can be supported as is with
>>> BibDesk. You may need to add custom types and fields though in the
>>> Default Fields preferences to support types that are not used in the
>>> standard styles.
>>>
>>> Christiaan
>>
>> No, it is not a bibtex supported format.
>> The glossary entry with glossaries looks like:
>>
>> \newglossaryentry{perl}{name=Perl,description=A scripting language}
>>
>> within an extra file saved as *.tex.
>>
>> And within the text you use for example
>>
>> \gls{perl}.
>>
>> Because of the great usability of BibDesk and its ablity of working
>> together with gloss, I thought it would be possible to also provide
>> support for the glossaries package.
>>
>> Christian
>
> I'm not sure what kind of support you're thinking of? Remember that
> BibDesk is mostly a manager of citation information. So what kind of
> support are you thinking of? Note I know next to nothing about the
> workflow for glossaries. One thing I could imagine BibDesk could do is
> to maintain information of the glossary entries in items of a new
> 'glossary' type. Then you can write a template for a glossary entry,
> which you can then use to copy or drag into your tex file. This can
> already be done. Is this what you want?
>
> Christiaan

Exactly Christiaaa! That was what I tried to explain. How would be the  
procedure to implement this?
The glossaries package requires certain entries for an item and the  
drag an drop procedure needs to generate something like \gls{label}.

Christian