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.
Thank you, Bennett. So in BibDesk I could create a master bib file
that lists all the references I might use in papers I might write?
How though does the list of references (a subset of the master list)
get created for a specific paper? From the citations I insert into
the text? And does the master bib file have to be in a certain location?
Bruce
On Jun 15, 2006, at 11:05 AM, Bennett Helm wrote:
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
