$Id: RM-to-BibTeX-HOWTO,v 1.2 2003/07/20 15:18:03 potse Exp $
	
This is one way to convert a Reference Manager database (*.rmd) into a
BibTeX database (*.bib) file. All necessary tools can be found in the
bibfrob package (http://www.potse.nl/software/bibfrob).

 1. Load the .rmd database into Reference Manager

 2. Select File|Print

    * set "output style" to "bibtex<version>.os"  (several versions of
      bibtex.os, for several versions of Reference Manager, are
      available in the bibfrob package

    * set "destination" = "to file"

    * save as type "text only", and select a file name

    * OK

    This creates an initial BibTeX database file. This file can be
    used with BibTeX, but the labels, which were assigned by Reference
    Manager, are still in the form "i<integer>". This is not very
    convenient.

 3. The "bibkeys" script, also available in bibfrob, assigns more
    convenient cite keys to a BibTeX database. It creates a key from
    the last name of the first author, and the year of publication,
    and takes care of situations where this scheme does not work well
    (e.g. multiple publications by the same author in one year are
    handled by appending letters a, b, ... and long author names are
    abbreviated to 5 characters).

    Bibkeys is a perl script, i.e. it requires the Perl program to
    run. It also depends on the Text::BibTeX Perl module, available
    from the CPAN archives (http://www.cpan.org).

 4. Check the resulting .bib file manually for things that went
    wrong. For example, author names that were entered incorrectly in
    Reference Manager may come out even more mangled when treated by
    BibTeX.