BibTeX Import and Export

You can import records from BibTeX files or export data from the database to that file format. WibTeX recognizes whether the file to be imported has a Windows/DOS-Format with CR/LFHID_CRLF line ending, or whether the file is stored in UNIX or Macintosh format. Currently, only the Windows/DOS format will be exported. If you encounter difficulties while trying to import a UNIX or Macintosh formatted file, open this file with a word processor such as Microsoft Word, save it as plain text, then try importing it again.

Please make sure that the file to be imported is really a BibTeX database file. If not, you will not be very happy with whatever happens next... However, in case something went wrong, you can always delete faulty records one by one or together.

When importing BibTeX files, errors may occur that can even lead to a crash of the application. (This is extremely rare, though.) Try to avoid, therefore, that the file to be imported has characters outside the brackets {}.

Please do not use BibTeX files in which there are no spaces before the field entries. This would NOT work:

@article{migliaccio-etal:04,

author = {Migliaccio, F. and M. Reguzzoni and F. Sansò},

title = {Space-wise approach to satellite gravity field determination in the presence of coloured noise}

}

Instead, you would need to reformat this, for instance, into:

@article{migliaccio-etal:04,

author = {Migliaccio, F. and M. Reguzzoni and F. Sansò},

title = {Space-wise approach to satellite gravity field

determination in the presence of coloured noise}

}

Please make sure, too, that the last curly bracket is placed into a separate line as in the examples above. Otherwise, WibTeX will not recognize the end of the record correctly.

Moreover, there must not be any paragraph mark within a field, i.e. between curly brackets or quotation marks.

WibTeX has become more stable with every new version. You can now even import structures such as title = "My Title" # hallo,. (During the export, the records in the database are converted into the BibTeX format and stored in a text file with suffix *.bib. You can choose the place where to store the file.) TeX code for special characters such as "u for is automatically converted before the import takes place.

Create a BibTeX-Preamble

Click on this icon or the corresponding entry in the menu Extras in order evoke a dialog that allows you to enter a preamble for BibTeX. It will be inserted into all subsequent BibTeX files that are going to be created by using the export function (until you remove the preamble again). Hint: Most users will not need this function.