I decided that instead of spending my time doing, you know, work I would rather make a Mac program that converts BibTex files into nicely formatted bibliographies that I can use in Pages. Finished the 0.0.1(alpha) release today: you copy the BibTex text into a box and it produces a nice looking bibliography.
Want to make it fully drag-and-drop though: you drag and BibTex file or text onto the output box and it automatically appears as a bibliography. And the output box needs to be fully editable. Lots of work still to do then.
I would put up a complied version, but it still needs lots of work before even the alpha version goes public.
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I'd be interested in this when you've finished it. Although BibDesk lets you turn a BibTeX file into a text bibliography as it is. Will your program do it better or more efficiently somehow?
I just don't think BibDesk is very nice to use. As with many open-source projects it seems like not much attention has gone into the design (and that's how it works as well as how it looks). My one isn't going to be a database or manager in the same way either, it will just take BibTex files and convert them.
It's mostly just because it's a nice project to get back into Mac programming: it covers most the basics and isn't too complicated.
It's also worth noting that mine is not aimed at Latex users - it would be pretty useless for them - but rather at users of other Word Processors. It also won't have a bright yellow icon.
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