[OS X TeX] converting crossref
Justin C. Walker
justin at mac.com
Mon Jul 23 01:42:54 CEST 2007
On Jul 22, 2007, at 15:43 , Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
> On Jul 22, 2007, at 15:01, Justin C. Walker wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jul 22, 2007, at 11:13 , Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 22, 2007, at 10:21, Justin C. Walker wrote:
>>>
>>>> This may not help, but I offer it as an alternative: I have
>>>> several bibtex files, in particular one for books, one for
>>>> papers. For papers in proceedings and the like, I use "\cite
>>>> {Blat}" as the book title.
>>>
>>> I'm curious: why do you use this instead of crossrefs? Does it
>>> work for any field? (yeah, I could try that for myself...I'm
>>> lazy ;)
>>
>> My Mom never mentioned that feature. I don't know that it's
>> limited to the Booktitle field.
>
> Your Mom uses BibTeX?
To be honest, no. I was speaking metaphorically :-}
>> Also, the BibDesk doc implies that the crossref'd entry lives in
>> the same file with the crossrefee ("...all parent items must
>> follow their children..."). Am I misreading this?
>
> I don't know. There are restrictions on the order of items for
> crossrefs to work properly (the parent must follow the child in the
> file), but it's possible that they can live in separate files, as
> long as the parent file is read last. None of BibDesk's crossref
> display/search/sort features would work in the case of separate
> files, though.
I did a bit of playing with this. It seems to be no better than my
use of "\cite{}" in "booktitle{}", but perhaps there is more
flexibility with the former. My first attempt also got 'bibtex' kind
of annoyed with me, but we settled that, I think :-}
>> As it stands, the title shows up (both in the preview window and
>> the actual PDF) with a properly accented 'e'. Does this mean the
>> proper character is being displayed? I ask simply out of
>> ignorance :-}
>
> Sorry, I should have been more clear: BibDesk converts Unicode<-
> >TeX automatically when saving and reading files, if the
> appropriate box is checked in the Files preference pane. This
> makes searching, viewing, and sorting a bit nicer.
Eewww: you mean actual unreadable gunk in the files? Ick. It's
ASCII for me; all this newfangled UTF encoding just makes it hard to
read ;-}
Thanks!
Justin
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