On Jun 15, 2006, at 11:34 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
Thanks, André. But I'd prefer not to use a script. I'm looking for
the simplest way to get my references from the current plain form
into the
Smith, B. (1980) The article name. The journal name, volume, page
range.
(Smith, 1980, p.14)
styles, using LyX alone, or with Bibdesk, or with whatever.
The script provided there is intended to make it possible to select
items in your BibDesk database and have bibliographical citations for
these shoved into your LyX document. That's useful, but I take in not
what you have in mind.
Rather, I take it you want to somehow convert the contents of the LyX
Bibliography environment to BibDesk, without retyping. I don't think
that's possible: BibDesk is a GUI frontend to BibTeX, which works by
identifying logical parts of a bibliographical citation so that
natbib/jurabib can automatically format or reformat these citations
for you in many different styles. For this to work, you need to enter
"Smith, B" into the author field, "1980" into the year field, "The
article name" into the title field, etc. (Moreover, you have to
specify that this is an article being cited rather than a book or
anything else.) That requires a degree of intelligence you're not
likely to find in a converter.
On the bright side, once you've entered something into BibDesk,
you'll never have to retype it again. From within LyX, you simply
select the file containing the bibliographical database(s) you've
constructed with BibDesk. (The database is not tied to a single LyX
document, but can be reused as many times as you wish.) Then any time
you want to cite something, it's as simple as Insert > Citation; LyX
pulls up the list of all citations found in those databases. (Or, you
can select particular citations in BibDesk, and run the above
mentioned script to have them appear magically in LyX.)
Bennett
