Re: Caution on BibTex references with Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg115611] Re: Caution on BibTex references with Mathematica
- From: Armand Tamzarian <mike.honeychurch at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 05:53:58 -0500 (EST)
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On Jan 14, 10:20 pm, Alexei Boulbitch <alexei.boulbi... at iee.lu> wrote: > Yes, Todd, > > As I have already reported, I tried to insert an EndNote 9 citation into a notebook Mathematica 8, PC/XP. > Mathematica was unable to localize the EndNote data base, and the whole operation failed. So not only bibtex, > but also EndNote citations are not supported. That is in contrast to documentation. > > Dear WR Team members, please include this information into your report sent to the person whom it concerns. > > Regards, Alexei > > Hi All, > > I just wanted to share a recent experience using Mathematica 8's new citation management functionality. I run Mathematica under Window's XP (32 bit) and was excited when Mathematica 8 was released to see documentation indicating that it could accept BibTex citations. > > I maintain my own reference database using a piece of open source software called JabRef (http://jabref.sourceforge.net/) which is very nice. Unfortunately, I was never able to get Mathematica to successfully read my bibliography database. > > When I contacted technical support about it, and provided test data for them, I eventually received the following response: > > "I apologize for the length of time that's been required for this. We're > still working on figuring it completely. We know that bibtex entries which > have inline latex often has some issues. Inline latex is processed but some > of the kinks have yet to be worked out. Your example has been sent to the > developer in charge of this area, and hopefully in the next release we will > have smoother integration of Bibtex into Mathematica." > > It appears that there is still significant work needed to make this functionality really robust in Mathematica. Be careful if you invest significant time into this. > > Anyone else have experience on this? > > Best regards, > Todd > > -- > Alexei Boulbitch, Dr. habil. > Senior Scientist > Material Development > > IEE S.A. > ZAE Weiergewan > 11, rue Edmond Reuter > L-5326 CONTERN > Luxembourg > > Tel: +352 2454 2566 > Fax: +352 2454 3566 > Mobile: +49 (0) 151 52 40 66 44 > > e-mail: alexei.boulbi... at iee.lu > > www.iee.lu > > -- > > This e-mail may contain trade secrets or privileged, undisclosed or > otherwise confidential information. If you are not the intended > recipient and have received this e-mail in error, you are hereby > notified that any review, copying or distribution of it is strictly > prohibited. Please inform us immediately and destroy the original > transmittal from your system. Thank you for your co-operation. Given that the Windows only Endnote Link was developed in 2009/2010 it probably only works on Endnote versions that were around then. Endnote 9 is a much older version so there maybe some differences in how that talks/links to other programs. If you have Windows it ought to work for Endnote X2 or X3 etc.