Jabref vs mendeley1/12/2024 ![]() ![]() I can provide examples of output bibtex from mendeley, papers and bibdesk. This of course assumes all the fields are dumped to the bibtex, even if some standards have to be bent or created. Another use for exporting the links to bibtex is mass correcting paths: suppose I've just relocated my pdf library, then all I have to do is an export to bibtex and do a find-replace of the old-new path. Standard or not, at least one can edit the output of mendeley to allow zotero importing the link. So if such distinction between links and stored copies is important a comparison of the file path and the zotero base path should distiguish both.įinally when I said zotero bibtex was poorer I was referring to the output, because it simply does not list the links to attachments. But anyway all references to a pdf are an "external" link, it just happens that some of those files are local copies of others. I also think this discussion only makes sense for linked files, where the local repository can be easily browsed or shared with other programs. So if there is no standard, we adapt to all, one at a time, on request basis perhaps. ![]() Better yet, add also the opposite, a list of the possible "not so standard" outputs to make zotero export a bibtex matching some target program! I'd be pretty happy even if I had to click on a list saying which program made the bibtex I'm about to import. %% This BibTeX bibliography file in UTF-8 format was created using Papers. Just for the record, Papers identifies itself on the bibtex header with: Maybe it shouldn't be hard coded but instead based on upgradable translators. In the end the zotero bibtex is poorer than that of other programs and is less useful for either communicating the some data among them or simply doing a backup.īy a "more versatile import function" I mean automatic recognition of the bibtex contents, including the line pointing to files. I suppose it is because of the structure: a link is an addition to the original record, but is not seen as part of it. Namely the import of Papers' bibtexs into zotero looses the pdf link (I'm aware of but I still dream of a friendlier and more versatile import function)Īnother issue is that a linked file in zotero is not exported within the bibtex. Local-url = ,Įach app has some strong and weak points which I'm not going to discuss here, but I want to stress how sorry I am that I cannot get the best out of each just because they fail to communicate (lack of standards? bad implementations?) It creates a bibtex with the following structure for the pdf link: In addition to Zotero and Mendeley I've also tried Papers (Mac). ![]()
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