[OS X TeX] Bibdesk choose fields and automate

Ueliisa ueliisa at gmx.net
Thu Apr 28 09:12:19 EDT 2005


Thanks again Maarten

you are right - I should read more of them - and I have them offline - 
and read it
but sometimes it is so difficult to find the right word to search ...
or only to find the chapter where it is explained

Thanks for you help
ueliisa


On 28.04.2005, at 14:22, Maarten Sneep wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Now I see what you mean. BibDesk is a good GUI for manipulating 
> bibliographic databases, it is not a command-line tool.
> I've added some comments, as this is never going to work.
>
> On 28 apr 2005, at 14:07, Ueliisa wrote:
>
>> This is my engine code
>> ******************************
>> #!/bin/sh
>> bfname=$(dirname "$1")/"`basename "$1" .tex`"
>
> Practically all tex-related tools expect to be run from the same 
> directory as the main tex file.
> bfname=`basename "$1" .tex`
> pushd `dirname "$1"` # this may be superfluous, as TeXShop probably 
> does it for you already
>
>> pdflatex "$bfname"
>> bibdesk "$bfname"               <<== it looks not working and I did 
>> not found a doc yet
>
> bibtex "$bfname" # will actually act on "$bfname".aux, but _must_ be 
> called without extension.
>
>> makeindex "$bfname".idx
>> makeindex -s "$bfname".ist -t "$bfname".glg -o "$bfname".gls 
>> "$bfname".glo
>> pdflatex "$bfname"
>> pdflatex "$bfname"
>
> You might want to add some checks in between to make sure each step 
> was successful before proceeding to the next step.
>
> Maarten
>
>> On 28.04.2005, at 10:50, Ueliisa wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> once more I looking for a solution in 2 point for bibdesk:
>>>
>>> - how I must insert bibdesk to an .engine flie to auto run it 
>>> together all the others
>
> See above.
>
>>> - I want more fields to the bibligraphy as it shows by default.
>>> 	 URL, Annote, ... Is it possible?
>
> Yes, see the FAQ pointed out to you a few days ago. And please, do 
> some basic reading on TeX systems, the "Not so short…" introduction 
> has a section on how to actually run the tools from the command-line 
> (IIRC), which is a prerequisite for writing engines and shell scripts.
>
> Maarten
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