On Oct 7, 2007, at 19:47, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote: > 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.
If BibDesk scanned an RTF file and replaced citekeys with citations and constructed a bibliography list, that would avoid the problem of being tied to a single program. The main problem there would be Cocoa's limited RTF support (no embedded graphics or equations). > 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/ Yeah, if they avoid death by committee, and can actually implement the software. I have yet to see a free word processor that I actually want to use. On the non-free side, Pages isn't bad, and Word is even tolerable until you start adding figures and cross references. I use BD to generate short bibliography lists in RTF using the latex2rtf support. Just out of curiosity, what would help the non-LaTeX users the most? People have mentioned integration with word processors. What would it look like? Basic RTF scanning wouldn't be too hard. A UI for templates would be nice, too. As a side note on integration, rumors indicate that you shouldn't count on the input manager working in 10.5; Services and AppleScript are probably the path forward. -- adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
