[OS X TeX] BibTeX, BibDesk, EndNote

[Simon Spiegel]

On 31.01.2005, at 21:10, Holger Frauenrath wrote:

>
> On Jan 31, 2005, at 20:11, Simon Spiegel wrote:
>>
>> This error has nothing to do with BibDesk. BibTeX has a limit of the 
>> size of the fields it can handle. Often this is simply a problem of 
>> Mac vs Unix linebreaks. Check out if you have Mac line breaks in your 
>> .bib file. Removing them may help you. If this doesn't do the trick 
>> and your entry is really too big, there's little you can do, I have 
>> bibtex fields which are too long for bibtex to handle. I was looking 
>> for a bibtex version with bigger buffers some time, but was 
>> unsuccesful then…
>
> Well, I have checked line endings with BBEdit: they are UNIX (just to 
> be sure, I saved it with UNIX line breaks). I also played around with 
> the encoding. It does not make a difference for the reult.
>
> It would be really sad if this little bibliography was too much too 
> handle for BibTeX because this would mean I would have to stop using 
> LaTeX for my research proposals altogether ... I must say I have a 
> hard time to belive this, though.
>
> There is two things I would like to know:
>
> I somehow seem to remember that I ran into the same problem a long 
> time ago, when I still used OzTeX on MacOS 9. It seems to me like 
> there was some way to change some parameter that fixed this. Sorry for 
> being so vague. Does anybody know about this?
>
> One problem that *could* in fact make the bibliography files larger 
> than they need to be (for the purpose of including them in LaTeX) is 
> that Endnote exported all fields, including the somewhat lengthy 
> abstracts etc. Is there a way to save/export a file in Bibdesk with 
> certain fields only? I will change the Endnote export as well, but it 
> would still be useful for me to know this for future use.

I don't know if this helps you but when I ran into problems with bibtex 
it was always due to too long abstracts and annotations. I actually 
filed a bug for this some time ago: If the lengthy field is at the end 
of the entry, bibtex simply skips it because it doesn't need them 
anyway (at least in the styles I use). So I filed a bug that BibDesk 
should write potential big fields at the end of each entry, but this 
hasn't happened yet

simon

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