...and I can't help remarking that this is a bunch of people who are hacking away at a pretty advanced system. A bibliography format shouldn't be beyond them :)
On 10Mar, 2011, at 16:59 , Christopher Dolan wrote: > I think everyone agrees that whatever output you create, Pat, will be > appreciated so feel welcome to use the tools you prefer. > Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] > Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 5:31 PM > To: dev@river.apache.org > Subject: Re: Bibliography format question > > I've taken a quick look at Lyx, and it is not exactly a LaTeX GUI. It > has its own file format, with LaTeX import and export, although it > closely depends on LaTeX and does do BibTeX bibliographies. > > It uses programs such as pdflatex to do its typesetting, so it cannot > have any capabilities that are not in LaTeX. > > I'm reluctant to commit to a single GUI, so I'm still intending to > maintain the source files as LaTeX and BibTeX, for which there are many > GUI editors and command line tools. However, I will periodically import > into Lyx to make sure it works. I don't expect need to do anything > really fancy with macros and the like in LaTeX. > > Patricia > > On 3/9/2011 3:19 PM, Christopher Dolan wrote: >> It's a LaTeX GUI. http://www.lyx.org/ >> >> I approve of the LaTeX/BibTeX approach. BibTeX was the first (but not >> last!) document syntax that drove me to write Makefiles... :-) >> >> Chris >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] >> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 3:49 PM >> To: dev@river.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Bibliography format question >> >> I know nothing about Lyx, so I'll have to look into it. What format > does >> >> it keep its files in? >> >> Patricia >> >> >> On 3/9/2011 1:32 PM, Peter Firmstone wrote: >>> For people who don't know TeX, it might be possible to use Lyx? >>> >>> Peter. >>> >>> Patricia Shanahan wrote: >>>> On 3/9/2011 11:16 AM, Tom Hobbs wrote: >>>>> Hi Patricia, >>>>> >>>>> The basic rule is, if you're the first person doing it, then you > get >>>>> to chose. And as you say, the result will be in a format that >>>>> everyone can read and see. I assume that your "left to myself" bit >>>>> describes a fairly standard way of doing this kind of thing. In >> which >>>>> case, I'd say go with that. >>>> >>>> The approach I'm considering is the way it is often done in the >>>> computer science academic world. Its main disadvantage is that it is >>>> not WYSIWYG. Its advantages are very precise formatting control, > text >>>> source files that work well with revision control, and availability >> of >>>> prepared BibTex data for many publications. >>>> >>>> However, I don't want to exclude others who might not be familiar >> with >>>> LaTex but would otherwise contribute. >>>> >>>>> >>>>> On a vaguely related note. I agree with you that a distributed >>>>> transaction manager is a more useful (necessary?) addition than a >>>>> distributed Java Space, so I took the liberty of creating a Jira > for >>>>> tracking it's issues, notes, thoughts etc. >>>>> >>>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RIVER-394 >>>>> >>>>> I hope that's okay. >>>> >>>> It's not just okay, it's excellent. I plan to comment on it as I >> learn >>>> relevant information. >>>> >>>> Patricia >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >
