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Extrakting single entries from a bibliography

Hello!

Sorry for disturbing, but I couldn't solve the following problems:

I started to use tellico for a scientific literature database. Now I want to 
do three things:

At first, I would like to collect entries from my tellico database into a 
literature list. But I could not figure out how to have multiple literature 
lists that use the same tellico collection in tellico. Is this possible?

Second, I would like to paste a single entry from tellico as an entry to the 
bibliography in the paper I'm working in. "Cite in OpenOffice" does not do 
anyhing, but copying a selected entry to the clipboard with a certain 
citation style (eg. APA) would be fine and maybe easier. Is this possible 
somehow?

Third, I would like to export a literature list (one of those I could not 
create "at first") into a bibliography for my paper. But I could not find any 
export that considers citation rules. Is something like this available?

Of course, any help would be apprecitated. Thank's a lot.

Grüße

Christian Swertz
www.swertz.at
+43.1.4277.46741

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Robby Stephenson | 24 Jul 16:01

Re: Extrakting single entries from a bibliography

Hi,

On Thursday 24 July 2008, Christian Swertz wrote:
> At first, I would like to collect entries from my tellico database into a
> literature list. But I could not figure out how to have multiple
> literature lists that use the same tellico collection in tellico. Is this
> possible?

I'm not quite sure what you mean by a literature list. Every Tellico file is 
independent, but multiple people could open it, if the images were shared.

> Second, I would like to paste a single entry from tellico as an entry to
> the bibliography in the paper I'm working in. "Cite in OpenOffice" does
> not do anyhing, but copying a selected entry to the clipboard with a
> certain citation style (eg. APA) would be fine and maybe easier. Is this
> possible somehow?

No, there's no citation formatting available. I'd start playing with the 
zotero code at one point to try to figure something out, but I didn't make 
any progress. To use the "Cite in OpenOffice", Tellico has to be compiled 
with the OpenOffice.org SDK, I'm not sure if any packagers are doing this. 
But if it worked, you could use the citation formatting there. The only 
real alternative I can think of, is to export to bibtex and parse the bst 
or final tex file. That's a real hack, though. The "Copy to Clipboard" only 
copies the bibtex reference.

> Third, I would like to export a literature list (one of those I could not
> create "at first") into a bibliography for my paper. But I could not find
> any export that considers citation rules. Is something like this
> available?

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Christian Swertz | 24 Jul 16:44

Re: Extrakting single entries from a bibliography

Hello,

Am Donnerstag, 24. Juli 2008 16:01:09 schrieb Robby Stephenson:

> I'm not quite sure what you mean by a literature list. Every Tellico file
> is independent, but multiple people could open it, if the images were
> shared.

I have one tellico file. This file contains all my literature. Now I'm writing 
different papers. Each papers refers to some of the entries in the tellico 
file. I would like to collect these entries and export them with citation 
formating, and keep this collection as a list in tellico for later use or for 
beeing able to work with different lists at the same time (since I'm working 
on different papers at the same time). This is not possible yet, isn't is?

> No, there's no citation formatting available. 

OK. Maybe I can do something to make this available in tellico? I really like 
KDE and tellico. Since I'm working in a university, one of the things I need 
in KDE is a literature database, and I think tellico does a great job with 
the keyword and author name handling and online cababilities and so on. The 
only thing I'm missing is a way to get the literature lists for my papers out 
of tellico. I have some experiences in programming (not exactly C++, but 
that's something I can learn) and some knowledge about citation formatting. 
You think there is a chance for me to add this?

Grüße

Christian Swertz
www.swertz.at

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Jens Seidel | 24 Jul 21:04

Re: Extrakting single entries from a bibliography

Hi Christian,

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 04:44:41PM +0200, Christian Swertz wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 24. Juli 2008 16:01:09 schrieb Robby Stephenson:
> > I'm not quite sure what you mean by a literature list. Every Tellico file
> > is independent, but multiple people could open it, if the images were
> > shared.
> 
> I have one tellico file. This file contains all my literature. Now I'm writing 
> different papers. Each papers refers to some of the entries in the tellico 
> file. I would like to collect these entries and export them with citation 
> formating, and keep this collection as a list in tellico for later use or for 
> beeing able to work with different lists at the same time (since I'm working 
> on different papers at the same time). This is not possible yet, isn't is?
> 
> > No, there's no citation formatting available. 
> 
> OK. Maybe I can do something to make this available in tellico? I really like 
> KDE and tellico. Since I'm working in a university, one of the things I need 
> in KDE is a literature database, and I think tellico does a great job with 
> the keyword and author name handling and online cababilities and so on. The 
> only thing I'm missing is a way to get the literature lists for my papers out 
> of tellico. I have some experiences in programming (not exactly C++, but 
> that's something I can learn) and some knowledge about citation formatting. 
> You think there is a chance for me to add this?

Tellico should works very well with this situation! You just have to use
a professional system for writing your texts. Tellico is able to handle
BiBTeX files (but I'm not sure whether it also supports some macro
tricks such as \noopt to give sorting hints) which is a literature

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Robby Stephenson | 26 Jul 03:10

Re: Extrakting single entries from a bibliography

On Thursday 24 July 2008, Christian Swertz wrote:
> I have one tellico file. This file contains all my literature. Now I'm
> writing different papers. Each papers refers to some of the entries in
> the tellico file. I would like to collect these entries and export them
> with citation formating, and keep this collection as a list in tellico
> for later use or for beeing able to work with different lists at the same
> time (since I'm working on different papers at the same time). This is
> not possible yet, isn't is?

Oh, there's a (relatively) painless way to do that. Select the entries you 
would like to export them, FIle->Export and choose the "Export selected 
entries" option. For an easy way to only select certain entries, you could 
add a checkbox field for a literature list, then create a filter for that 
field. Then when you select that filter, and do "Select All", only those 
entries with that field checked will get exported. Or, if you have a lot of 
lists, just add a new multiple choice field with different tags and do the 
same.

> > No, there's no citation formatting available.
>
> OK. Maybe I can do something to make this available in tellico? I really
> like KDE and tellico. Since I'm working in a university, one of the
> things I need in KDE is a literature database, and I think tellico does a
> great job with the keyword and author name handling and online
> cababilities and so on. The only thing I'm missing is a way to get the
> literature lists for my papers out of tellico. I have some experiences in
> programming (not exactly C++, but that's something I can learn) and some
> knowledge about citation formatting. You think there is a chance for me
> to add this?

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