Although working on integration between an open-source project like  
BibDesk and a closed-source, for-pay product such as Mellel seems  
problematic as a student project. The question is, what open-source  
word processor is a good option? Not much comes to mind. LyX as a  
LaTeX front-end is still too much for most people, and the current  
crop (Abiword, OpenOffice) of free alternatives doesn't look good.  
The future of OpenOffice as an environment with serious, built-in  
citation support looks promising, though:

http://bibliographic.openoffice.org/

Of course, we're still at least a year out from OOO 3.0 and probably  
more time after that for the (now-alpha) Cocoa port, unless you want  
to work with NeoOffice instead.

If we ever get a Computer Science undergrad major at my institution,  
I'll be recruiting.

-AHM

On Oct 7, 2007, at 3:26 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:

>
> On Oct 7, 2007, at 15:04, Daniele Pontillo wrote:
>
>> great! I'll give up being a cardiologist and get into computer biz.
>> I.e. my honorarium for an office visit is $150 (30 min), still
>> cheaper than your fares... Sorry for the OT.
>
> My point is that it might be a good student project, if someone has an
> appropriate grant (I'm serious about that...I know there are college
> students and faculty on this list).  Feature requests are free, but
> implementing them is not...and we haven't had any new developers come
> on board since 2004, as far as I recall.
>
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