[OS X TeX] BibTeX macro poll

[Michael McCracken]

Hi Will, thanks for the info. I'd certainly like to support the full 
syntax, but the problems are mainly how to display and edit that kind 
of thing in a GUI. Any suggestions are definitely appreciated.

I had heard some of the things in the TUG article, but I hadn't seen 
the exact paper itself... Very interesting reading - sounds like BibTeX 
1.0 will solve a couple of BibDesk's problems as well - thanks for the 
link!

-mike

On Sep 27, 2004, at 11:05 PM, Will Robertson wrote:

>
> On 28 Sep 2004, at 3:20 PM, Michael McCracken wrote:
>
>> What I'd like to know is, do you ever use the full syntax, and would 
>> support for macro editing in BibDesk be considered complete if you 
>> could only edit simple macros like "Month = jun" but more complicated 
>> ones were only passed through unaltered?
>
> Hi Michael
>
> I occasionally do use things like "month = jun # {~14}" (although this 
> is a very inflexible approach), and though I'd like to make your life 
> easier by saying to only worry about the simple problems, I think it's 
> necessary to eventually support the string syntax in full. Obviously 
> anything is very appreciated, and basic support will get me using 
> BibDesk as soon as it's released (probably).
>
> Regards,
> Will Robertson
>
> PS Have you read about the further developments planned for BibTeX in 
> the near(-ish) future? Very interesting reading:
> <http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb24-1/patashnik.pdf>
>
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