[OS X TeX] bibtex apps

[Simon Spiegel]

I haven't used Aquatkbibtex yet, but I've looked at many others bibtex 
UIs, and BibDesks beats them all IMO. I just had a short look at 
Aquatkbibtex and couldn't see any advantages over BibDesk, just an ugly 
UI. BibDesk is OSX native, allows as many fields as you want without 
the need to edit the bibtex source. It takes care of your pdfs and has 
LaTeX preview.  It also handles special characters well and will very 
soon feature citation completion for all Cocoa apps. There's no 
official build with this feature yet, but I just compiled my own build 
yesterday. I now simply type \cite{anyname} in TeXShop, press F5, and 
voilà: All entries matching my search pop up. This is a terrific 
feature and will probably appear soon in an official build.

There are great things planned for the future of BibDesk. Among other 
things an iTunes-like UI with playlists-like smart searches.

HTH

simon

On 27.07.2004, at 19:03, Denis Chabot wrote:

> Hi,
>
> has anyone compared bibdesk and Aquatkbibtex? I have tried (briefly) 
> bibdesk and found it interesting and quite good, with a few cosmetic 
> problems, but being still very unfamiliar with all the bells and 
> whistles of bibtex, I don't know what to expect. If some of you have 
> tried both programs, I'd very much appreciate the pros and cons of 
> each. If there are other programs out there, please discuss those as 
> well.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Denis Chabot
>
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