BE to bibtex citation conversion

[sondre]

Hi,
I got bookends quite recently to help organise references for my master thesis, and I've been impressed by its features and flexibility. My planned workflow includes doing most writing in scrivener, and later export to mellel for final formatting. However, I am also intrigued by the possibility to use the mmd->latex exporter, and I see that BE also handles bibtex citations nicely.

Since I would like the option to choose later what format I want to use, I was wondering if there is a way to convert all my regular BE temporary citations throughout a document to bibtex style, for example by using the scan function? I've been looking for info on such a feature in the user guide and the forum, but I haven't been able to find any (As I said, I'm a new to bookends so I may have missed it). I looked at the possibility to make my own bibtex citation style using the formats manager but couldn't really figure out how to get everything right. (I already generated bibtex keys for my refs.)

For example, {Anderson, 1983, #4938@49} would be converted to something like \citep[49]{Anderson1983}.

cheers,
Sondre

[Jon]

Hi,

You can have Bookends convert one type of citation style to another by doing a proofreading scan (I'd recommend generating a new document when you do). But Bookends won't change the @ notation to \citep for you. You'd have to do that yourself. Also realize the BibTeX scans only work with text files -- so if you want to do a BibTeX scan on a Mellel document, save it as text first.

Jon
Sonny Software

[sondre]

Hmm, has anyone else got any tips for a way to do a "smart" BE to bibtex conversion scan, which takes care of cited pages, etc. automatically? Maybe this could be an idea for a BE feature in a later version? (Dunno if other people would find it useful)