Re: [Bibdesk-users] Help me to stop using Endnote!

[Christiaan H. <chr...@we...>]

As such, as far as I can understand what you want (I never have used  
EndNote) BibDesk does not have this feature. If you only rarely  
switch between formats, you could use macros to accomplish this. So  
use a macro in the Journal field, and when you want to export or  
create a bibliography make sure you have the right macros set. You  
can set macros either per document. Or you can have global macros  
set. This way you could have a macro file for each type of  
bibliography, and you can (relatively easily) switch between the  
macro files in the pref pane when you want to. Please also file an  
RFE so we can think about implementing it. I am not sure how to  
describe the "purpose" though, so if you do this please explain in  
some more detail the way you'd like to see this work.

Christiaan

On 27 Jul 2006, at 6:38 AM, Ricardo Azevedo wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm in the unusual position of being a long time Mac and Endnote user
> who has recently started using LaTeX and BibTeX for my scientific
> writing.  I've tried to use BibDesk several times in the past but
> have repeatedly found myself going back to using Endnote because of
> some missing feature in BibDesk.  Now I'm ready to switch: Endnote is
> expensive, unstable, and unfriendly to Mac users, whereas the latest
> version of BibDesk is the opposite of these things, and has some
> great features I already use, such as integration with TeXShop, or
> would like to start using right now.  (Yes, I'm currently exporting
> my library from Endnote, converting its extension to .bib using an
> Automator script, opening it within BibDesk, and calling it from
> within TeXShop!)  There is, however, one piece of functionality from
> Endnote that I haven't been able to figure out how to accomplish
> within BibDesk -- Journal Term Lists.
>
> Briefly, the idea is that references pulled from different sources
> come in different formats (for example PubMed calls the journal
> "Evolution" by a name no one uses: "Evolution Int J Org Evolution"),
> but I need my bibliography to be completely consistent.  In Endnote,
> you can create a sort of conversion table with alternate names for
> journals and chose which one to export for a particular purpose.  Is
> there a way to do this with BibDesk, say, with macros?  Could someone
> point me in the right direction?  Thanks for any help.
>
> Ricardo
>
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