[OS X TeX] Sente - New bibliographic app
Kyle Johnson
kbj at linguist.umass.edu
Fri Sep 10 15:11:56 CEST 2004
I also switched from Endnote to Bookends a couple years ago when I
started using LaTeX. The author is indeed very responsive to
suggestions, and has already gone a ways in making it useful for LaTeX
users. I'm sure he would respond to the need for additional fields,
mentioned in an earlier post. It's got a simple, and fast, interface
that I like -- I prefer it to Bibdesk for its speed. I maintain by
3000+ references in Bookends and then periodically run its built-in
utility for generating a .bib file. When I want to cite something in a
document I'm writing, I switch over to Bookends, search for it, push a
button and it automatically inserts the \cite tag in the source
document.
Kyle
On Sep 10, 2004, at 3:07 AM, Denis Chabot wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le Vendredi, 10 sept 2004, à 02:00 Europe/Paris, TeX on Mac OS X
> Mailing List a écrit :
>
>> Simon Spiegel wrote:
>>
>>> I just stumbled across this yesterday and it looks quite interesting.
>>> Sente (
>>> http://www.thirdstreetsoftware.com/index.cgi?page=introduction
>>> ) is an app for retrieiving all kind of online bibliographic data. It
>>> can access Pubmed, LoC, z39.50 servers and probably. You can create
>>> quite elaborate filters and it automatically updates your searches.
>>> It
>>> exports to BibTeX and EndNote. Unfortunately it's not free.
>>
>> Its a nice app. I'm thinking of buying it after some encouraging
>> exchanges with the developer. Exporting BibTeX to BibDesk is a bit
>> clunky (goes via an intermediate text file), but it works. Adding (in
>> the case of Sente) and improving (in the case of BibDesk) AppleScript
>> support could vastly improve the utility of both apps.
>>
>> BTW is anyone using Bookends and ReferenceMiner ? If so, any gotchas
>> wrt BibTeX ?
>>
>> mark.
>>
> About 8 months ago I switched from EndNote to Bookends because EndNote
> was becoming to Windows centric in my view. I cannot comment much on
> Bookends usefulness to the TeX world because I am very much a beginner
> to TeX. But I think the idea is to use Bookends with your LaTeX
> documents just as you would use it (or EndNote) with a Word or rtf
> document: you use its method of inserting citations, and it will
> produce a copy of your document with the inline citations inserted and
> a bibliography at the end. It can also accept TeX style citations
> (\cite or whatever you decide, but only one is possible in a given
> document) instead of its own, but in the present version you would
> lose the ability to have the citations formatted inside or outside
> parenthesis if you don't stick to its own citation mechanism, at the
> cost of portability. The author is very responsive though, and in a
> next revision will allow the use of 2 citations strings of your
> choice, for instance \citep and \citet, to fulfill that need. But my
> understanding is that it will not produce a file containing your
> citations that can be further manipulated with BibTex etc. This could
> be good for a beginner as it is much easier to define a new
> bibliography formatting style in Bookends than in programming. You can
> also take advantage of Bookends list of Journals and their
> abbreviations to switch from full journal titles to abbreviations
> according to you needs. I think you use macros to do this in TeX, but
> I have not reached this level of TeX-maturity yet.
>
> I did not have time to experiment much and these conclusions could be
> due to my ignorance. Again the author is very open to suggestions.
>
>
> Denis Chabot
>
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