I use BibDesk with MultiMarkdown to drag in references. BibDesk has a fairly new and increasingly flexible template feature so that you can specific the output you want when dragging from BibDesk (not limited to the latex commands). Thought some others might like to know, apologies if irrelevant.
eg dragging these two articles from BibDesk Bennett, P. N. and Carbonell, J. (2005). Detecting action-items in e- mail. In SIGIR ’05: Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, pages 585–586. bennett2005detecting-actio
Crossan, M., Cunha, M. P. E., Vera, D., and Cunha, J. (2005). Time and organizational improvisation. Academy of Management Review, 30(1): 129–145. crossan2005time-and-organi
into TextMate (or any editor) gives you:
[Bennett and Carbonell (2005), Crossan et al. (2005)] [#bennett2005detecting-actio, crossan2005time-and-organi]
which converts nicely to ~\citet{bennett2005detecting-actio} in latex, and should use the text in the left [] as the link text in xhtml.
Here's the template (this should be copied into a file in ~/ Application Support/BibDesk/Templates and selected as the drag Template in the citation pref pane) does the trick:
It's not smart enough to combine refs from the same author, or do the 2005a, 2005b thing though.
If you prefer parens (and this works to convert to ~\citep {bennett2005detecting-actio} when using the patch I sent a while ago, btw, did that get integrated?):
Hi James! This looks very interesting. I just tried to test it but Bibdesk does not show the new file as an option for the template, only default templates are listed. Which name did you choose to the save the new file under and did you edit anything else to make this new file known to bibdesk? Cheers Silvan
PS: MacOS 10.4.10 & Bibdesk Version 1.3.10 (v865) over here
On Oct 14, 2007, at 10:00 AM, Silvan Kaiser wrote:
> Hi James! > This looks very interesting. I just tried to test it but Bibdesk does > not show the new file as an option for the template, only default > templates are listed. > Which name did you choose to the save the new file under and did you > edit anything else to make this new file known to bibdesk? > Cheers > Silvan
> PS: MacOS 10.4.10 & Bibdesk Version 1.3.10 (v865) over here
Hi Simon,
You need to click the + at the bottom of the File Templates listing in the System Preferences and fill out the details, pointing to that file when it asks for it. I don't think it matters what the files are named but here's what I have:
[james@MinistryOfInformation2]$ls -la Library/Application\ Support/ BibDesk/Templates/ total 68k drwxr-xr-x 16 james james 544 Oct 12 11:21 . drwxr-xr-x 21 james james 714 Mar 23 2007 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 james james 202 Oct 12 11:21 MMDcite-P- ExportTemplate.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 james james 202 Oct 12 11:20 MMDciteExportTemplate.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 james james 56 Aug 6 2006 citeServiceTemplate.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 james james 19k Aug 6 2006 docExportTemplate.doc -rw-r--r-- 1 james james 936 Aug 6 2006 htmlExportStyleSheet.css -rw-r--r-- 1 james james 492 Aug 6 2006 htmlExportTemplate.html -rw-r--r-- 1 james james 521 Aug 6 2006 htmlItemExportTemplate.html -rw-r--r-- 1 james james 593 Aug 6 2006 rssExportTemplate.rss -rw-r--r-- 1 james james 1.2k Aug 6 2006 rtfExportTemplate.rtf -rw-r--r-- 1 james james 685 Aug 6 2006 rtfServiceTemplate book.rtf -rw-r--r-- 1 james james 910 Aug 6 2006 rtfServiceTemplate default item.rtf -rw-r--r-- 1 james james 368 Aug 6 2006 rtfServiceTemplate.rtf drwxr-xr-x 4 james james 136 Aug 6 2006 rtfdExportTemplate.rtfd -rw-r--r-- 1 james james 275 Aug 6 2006 textServiceTemplate.txt
Ie they are named MMDciteExportTemplate.txt and MMDcite-P- ExportTemplate.txt.
Now I think about it, these templates use features added in the last few days. I'm using 1.3.10 (v902) which I is a 'nightly' rather than a released build, so one might want to wait a few days for the next release, or grab the latest nightly from
> On Oct 14, 2007, at 10:00 AM, Silvan Kaiser wrote:
> > Hi James! > > This looks very interesting. I just tried to test it but Bibdesk does > > not show the new file as an option for the template, only default > > templates are listed. > > Which name did you choose to the save the new file under and did you > > edit anything else to make this new file known to bibdesk? > > Cheers > > Silvan
> > PS: MacOS 10.4.10 & Bibdesk Version 1.3.10 (v865) over here
> Hi Simon,
> You need to click the + at the bottom of the File Templates listing > in the System Preferences and fill out the details, pointing to that > file when it asks for it. I don't think it matters what the files are > named but here's what I have:
> [james@MinistryOfInformation2]$ls -la Library/Application\ Support/ > BibDesk/Templates/ > total 68k > drwxr-xr-x 16 james james 544 Oct 12 11:21 . > drwxr-xr-x 21 james james 714 Mar 23 2007 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 james james 202 Oct 12 11:21 MMDcite-P- > ExportTemplate.txt > -rw-r--r-- 1 james james 202 Oct 12 11:20 > MMDciteExportTemplate.txt > -rw-r--r-- 1 james james 56 Aug 6 2006 > citeServiceTemplate.txt > -rw-r--r-- 1 james james 19k Aug 6 2006 > docExportTemplate.doc > -rw-r--r-- 1 james james 936 Aug 6 2006 > htmlExportStyleSheet.css > -rw-r--r-- 1 james james 492 Aug 6 2006 > htmlExportTemplate.html > -rw-r--r-- 1 james james 521 Aug 6 2006 > htmlItemExportTemplate.html > -rw-r--r-- 1 james james 593 Aug 6 2006 > rssExportTemplate.rss > -rw-r--r-- 1 james james 1.2k Aug 6 2006 > rtfExportTemplate.rtf > -rw-r--r-- 1 james james 685 Aug 6 2006 > rtfServiceTemplate book.rtf > -rw-r--r-- 1 james james 910 Aug 6 2006 > rtfServiceTemplate default item.rtf > -rw-r--r-- 1 james james 368 Aug 6 2006 > rtfServiceTemplate.rtf > drwxr-xr-x 4 james james 136 Aug 6 2006 > rtfdExportTemplate.rtfd > -rw-r--r-- 1 james james 275 Aug 6 2006 > textServiceTemplate.txt
> Ie they are named MMDciteExportTemplate.txt and MMDcite-P- > ExportTemplate.txt.
> Now I think about it, these templates use features added in the last > few days. I'm using 1.3.10 (v902) which I is a 'nightly' rather than > a released build, so one might want to wait a few days for the next > release, or grab the latest nightly from
> (Remember to back up when using a Nightly and probably best to > subscribe the the bibdesk-develop list if you are going to regularly > use nightlies).
> (and we should move this discussion to a bibdesk list if there's more > to say ;)
I finally had a chance to play around with BibDesk again, and looked at what James Howison had submitted a while back. His file wasn't working for me with a newer version of BibDesk, but I was able to play with the Template Editor to recreate what he did (I think) as well as to create some other templates....
I created three templates, that generate the following:
[#Gibson:1984][]
[p. ][#Gibson:1984]
[Yost, Sentner, and Forlenza-bailey (2000)][#Yost:2000]
The first version is used when there is no specific reference or string to use (e.g. `p. 15`). The second version allows you to include such a string.
The third is more like James' version, and I suppose is useful when you will not be using BibTeX and want a more human-readable citation.
I would love to get feedback from anyone who uses this, and come up with something to put on the website for others to use.
> I finally had a chance to play around with BibDesk again, and looked > at what James Howison had submitted a while back. His file wasn't > working for me with a newer version of BibDesk, but I was able to > play with the Template Editor to recreate what he did (I think) as > well as to create some other templates....
> I created three templates, that generate the following:
> [#Gibson:1984][]
> [p. ][#Gibson:1984]
> [Yost, Sentner, and Forlenza-bailey (2000)][#Yost:2000]
> The first version is used when there is no specific reference or > string to use (e.g. `p. 15`). The second version allows you to > include such a string.
> The third is more like James' version, and I suppose is useful when > you will not be using BibTeX and want a more human-readable citation.
> I would love to get feedback from anyone who uses this, and come up > with something to put on the website for others to use.
> F-
> -- > Fletcher T. Penney > fletc...@fletcherpenney.net
> Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. > - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) > < > MMDExportTemplate > .txt><MMDwithPagesExportTemplate.txt><MMDCompleteExportTemplate.txt>
