Re: [Bibdesk-users] cite key issue upgrading to 0.83

[Michael M. <mic...@ma...>]

Hi - thanks for writing.

First off, the fixme:01 was a unimplemented feature thing, but it was  
removed because it is a bad default. When you use bibtex to generate a  
bibliography for a latex document, each publication has to have an  
unique key - so to be saving them all as fixme:01 was a bad idea...

I do plan to support auto-generation of cite keys, but currently the  
assumption is that you've been entering them all along. I suppose I  
didn't consider the possibility that people would be using bibdesk to  
create large databases without running them through bibtex  
occasionally, because you would've noticed the problem sooner if you  
had.

Get the program bibtool to auto-generate keys. You can find information  
about it at  
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool/ 
inst_toc.html

hopefully you've already encountered the macosx-tex mailing list, to  
help answer your questions about bibtex (it is much more populated than  
this list, and so you're more likely to get timely and authoritative  
responses there) If not, info about it is here:  
http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/

Finally, about the icons for the local files not showing up - can you  
tell me what the local-url field reads for one of the ones that doesn't  
work? also, you say it works fine for newly created entries - did you  
type in the local-url or did you drag the file in?

Thanks for the info,
-mike

On Oct 31, 2003, at 3:18 PM, EGAN, SEAN wrote:

> Hi,
> I just upgraded from 0.80 to 0.83 and now I get a message telling me to
> create a new unique cite key for every entry. I know I should have been
> doing this all along, but honestly I thought that the "fixme:01" was an
> unimplemented feature thing. I thought that eventually the program
> would auto-generate the cite keys for me. It isn't.
>
> So how do I auto-generate cite keys myself? I don't want to have to
> type them in for the 50 to 100 citations I have in this one bib file,
> and going forward I would just like them to be generated as I go. I'm
> assuming this is possible with the macros and templates that can be
> written in BibTex, but I don't know how to do that. I probably have
> some command line tools to do this stuff already installed with BibTex,
> but it's hard to know where to even start looking.
>
> I am new to BibTex, obviously. I'm trying to decide how much into this
> I will get for my dissertation, which I will be starting in the next
> few months.
> Thanks,
> Sean
>
> PS. The icons for my local files are not showing up. I know this was
> supposed to be fixed in 0.83. Is this related to the cite key problem?
> The local-URL fields are correct, and in 0.80 there were icons for the
> files (the icons didn't work, but they were there.) What can I do about
> this? (The icon shows up and works perfectly for newly created entries,
> but I would like to be able to get my old ones too of course.)
>
>
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