#12 search multiple files / export to bib file

[Anonymous]

Dear colleagues,
I am glad that BibEdt exists. Previously I was a user
of wbibdb and I miss the following functionalities

1/ open and link several bib files for searching
2/ select several records in a bib file and export to
another bibfile. Purpose: create one small bib file for
a specific publication.
3/ flexibility in key generation
(e.g. miller:06 automatically generated from first
author 'Miller' and publication year '2006'

[Ascher Stefan]

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1. BibEdt is designed as SDI (single document interface)
program, so opening more files at once is a bit a problem.
I'll also do some researching how this could be achieved.

2. File -> Export exports always only the selected records.
If none are selected the entire file is exported. Select
BibTeX in the list of formats. But you could also BibEdt
generate a .bib file from a LaTeX .aux file (Tools ->
Generate from AUX).

3. The problem is also described in FR #1475451
(http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1475451&group_id=142263&atid=753205).

At the moment I've no good idea how this could be done.

[Ascher Stefan]

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1. Suppose you have several files open with several instances of BibEdt then one instance can communicate with the other and maybe tell the other instances to search for something. I think this could be done quite easily, and BibEdt will appear almost like a MDI (multiple document interface) program.