Dear all, As I need to write scientific publications once in a while, I need some sort of reference manager. Most biomedical journals insist on manuscripts in Word or RTF-format, so OpenOffice is the suite of choice under Linux I guess. Using OOo is however a pain in the neck when it comes to references. The build-in system is anything but userfriendly or intuitive. Unfortunately, the OO-bibliography project has postponed its release until OOo 3.x.
However, I recently came across a really cool tool: Bibus (http://bibus-biblio.sourceforge.net/). It is a programm written in Python, closely related to Endnote (which some of you may be familiar with :) ). It is essentially linking a database (either MySQL or SQLite) with OOo using the Python-UNO-bridge via a GUI. It is not yet 100% perfect (which tool is?), but it is *REALLY* a huge step forward. I contacted the author Pierre Martineau and he said that it will be adopted to run under OOo 2.x as well (it already does with minor modifications). A Debian (and Ubuntu) package is already available for download from his site (to those who are forced to use the Dark side as well: Yes, it runs under Windows). I would strongly advocate that someone with the proper administrative rights @Debian includes this nice piece of software into the official repository. If anyone has a better or equivalent tool for that purpose, please let me know (and yes, I am aware of LaTex and JabRef etc. but AFAIK they do not support OOo). Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Gromer, MD. PhD. Work: Biochemie-Zentrum Heidelberg / Im Neuenheimer Feld 504 / D-69120 Heidelberg / Tel.: +49 (6221) 544291 / Fax.: +49 (6221) 545586 Home: Sternallee 89 / D-68723 Schwetzingen / Tel.: +49 (6202) 855038 Mobil: +49 (172) 7694555 / URL: http://www.gromer-online.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
