[OS X TeX] BibDesk + CVS Checkout?

[Jung-Tsung Shen]

Thanks, Mike. I guessed so as well. I took a look at the download
section of JabRef at sourceforge. The latest version 1.8.1 was just
released on sep. 15, and the Windows installer is not ready yet.

Regards,
JT

On 9/15/05, Michael McCracken <michael_mccracken at mac.com> wrote:
> This does indeed seem to be a problem with the program you were using
> on Windows, since adding that field does result in valid BibTeX, even
> if only BibDesk actually uses it.
> 
> I don't know much about BibTeXManager, but for a more capable editor
> on windows I might suggest JabRef: http://jabref.sourceforge.net/
> 
> JabRef is a Java app that also runs on OS X, they have a Windows
> installer for it, and it does read files generated by BibDesk.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> -mike
> 
> On Sep 15, 2005, at 4:06 PM, Jung-Tsung Shen wrote:
> 
> > It seems that, BibDesk created a new field immediately after the
> > "author" field, and it looks like
> >
> > Date-Modified = {2005-09-15 08:29:13 -0700},
> >
> > which is not recognizable by BibTexManager on Windows, and therefore
> > everything after this field in this record is missing when viewed on
> > Windows. This also messed up the whole database viewed on Windows if I
> > tried to re-ordered by whatever criterion.
> >
> > On 9/15/05, Jung-Tsung Shen <jushen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks for the information, Mike.
> >>
> >> Here I would like to report the first experiment with negative
> >> result.
> >>
> >> Program info:
> >> --------------------
> >> BibTex on Mac.
> >> BibTeXManager on Windows ( http://www.imamod.ru/~vab/bibtexmng/   )
> >>
> >> CVS system:
> >> --------------------
> >> CVSNT on both Mac and Windows (although the Windows is adopted as
> >> server, so the CVSNT on Mac doesn't have effect in the description
> >> below)
> >>
> >> CVS client:
> >> -------------------
> >> MacCVSClient X on Mac
> >> TortoiseCVS on WIndows
> >>
> >> --------------------
> >>
> >> What I did:
> >>
> >> (1) On Mac, in BibDesk, I enabled autofile. There's a field "local
> >> URL" in my bib databse with file name myBib.bib, which specifies the
> >> local path to the physical file/paper.
> >>
> >> (2) Imported module from Mac.
> >>
> >> (3) Checked out module from Windows.
> >>
> >> (4) Open myBib.bib using BibTexManager on Windows.
> >>
> >> For those with file links, the "title" of those records which has
> >> file
> >> link is invisible!!
> >>
> >> Not knowing too much about both bibtex programs, I played around to
> >> enable/disable various kinds of options, including the "URL"
> >> option on
> >> BibTeXManager, but still in vain.
> >>
> >> Of course the problem seems to be on the Windows side. Does anyone
> >> have encountered the same problem and come up a solution?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> JT
> >>
> >> On 9/15/05, Michael McCracken <michael_mccracken at mac.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> On Sep 15, 2005, at 11:40 AM, mark oilcan wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Will BibDesk 2.0 break this sort of functionality? I hope not in
> >>>> that I
> >>>> have a similar set-up where my .bib file might be modified by means
> >>>> other than BibDesk. It seems like having to reimport and export
> >>>> each
> >>>> time I use BibDesk will be a bit of a pain compared to the way it
> >>>> works
> >>>> now. (I understand that the trade off is added functionality in
> >>>> other
> >>>> areas, but it just turns out that I don't see myself using those. I
> >>>> don't doubt that I'm in the minority, though).
> >>>>
> >>>> Mark A
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> The answer is probably No and Yes.
> >>>
> >>> As planned, BibDesk 2 will still do everything that BibDesk 1 does.
> >>>
> >>> What we're doing for BD2 (slowly, I admit) is adding the ability to
> >>> read a new file format that lets you store a lot more information
> >>> and organize things better. We'll support easy import and export
> >>> from regular BibTeX files, but if you still want to use BibTeX as
> >>> your
> >>> main format, especially if you want to work with Windows/Linux/etc,
> >>> you'll
> >>> be able to do it, since opening .bib files in BD2 will act exactly
> >>> as it does now.
> >>>
> >>> So, for those who don't envision using new organizational features,
> >>> don't worry.
> >>> I expect that new features will be added to both the .bib editing
> >>> capabilities
> >>> and the new format for a long time - there are no plans of dropping
> >>> support
> >>> for editing BibTeX!
> >>>
> >>> -mike
> >>>
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