#430 NeoOffice / OpenOffice Support integrated?
Hi,
first of all - Thank you!
BibDesk is a must - have when dealing with free biblio software on the Apple Mac. I really appreciate your work, 'cause it really is a time saver while writing my diploma thesis.
The question is, whether there might be any remote chance of making BibDesk and NeoOffice working together?
I know it is not meant to work with it in the first place - but why is "NeoOffice/ Services/ BibDesk" greyed out?
Trying google for help and the fori of NeoOffice didn't came up with something useful.
Exporting the BibDesk to JabRef, from there exporting to a table for replacing the NeoOffice Database used for storing the bib data wouldn't work, because afterwards I cannot edit the entries - write protected? Besides nasty conversion problems with German Umlauts this wasn't working at all for me.
Thanks for your help
Falk
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NeoOffice is not a Cocoa app, so services won't work. It all seems to be more a problem with NeoOffice than BibDesk.
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I second Falk's feature request.
I have being playing with several reference managers on the Mac and Bibdesk comes on top of the heap. Unfortunately, I abandoned LaTeX long ago, essentially because it was impossible to convince my colleagues of its usefulness. I currently use NeoOffice, and I'm quite happy with it, except for the very cumbersome management of references/bibliographies. If BibDesk would work integrated with NeoOffice it would be simply the best solution to my writing/referencing needs.
If the developers are interested, I would suggest them to start looking at:
http://bibliographic.openoffice.org/
http://bibliographic.openoffice.org/servlets/SummarizeList?listName=dev
I would be happy to test any development version!
Best,
Miguel
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I don't know whether NeoOffice is Cocoa or not, but I do know that services do indeed work and they do find Bibdesk. I've got NeoOffice 2.2.2Patch10 and would sure love better integration with Bibdesk.
Thanks!
Robert
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Bibdesk users should check out Scrivener which allows the use of the multimardown language. This is a very simple markup language. Scrivener then can automatically export the multimarkdown document into RTF, HTML or LaTeX. I clearly favor it for writing compared to MS Office, Pages or Neo/Openoffice. Clearly, Scrivener works well with Bibdesk, too.