I've had a look at pybliographer over the last couple of days an so far I like what I see. The only thing I couldn't find was an option for online searching (e.g. Web of Science, PubMed, ...) as it comes with Reference Manager for Windows. Is there something like a plugin doing the job or do I have to copy and paste all the fields from my browser window?
Another thing I would be interested in is a LaTeX-editor which recognizes bibTeX-files and opens a window with available references each time I type '\cite'. I've installed Lyx yesterday, which seems to have this feature, but I'm not yet sure, if it is a good editor for LaTeX. Any recommendations?
Cheers, Conrad.
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
time, I'll give sixpack another try, because I've read some recommendations about it and the screenshots look also quite nice.
Wonder how they did that - I found it looked rather ugly. Of course that's a matter of personal taste...
Like all the debates about how to get software, installing things
without the assistance of a Package Manager requires you to understand
your environment well, and to learn the package itself well. Once you do
that, you have full flexibility to do what you want.
Not that I'm interested in discussing the merits of perl, but I disagree with that statement. For any decent GNU program I run ./configure; make and be finished. Even for non-GNU programs a simple make usually works. In comparison, perl hardly ever works as simply. Along your lines of argumentation, does that mean most perl programs are broken? I don't know much about perl or its packaging system (and don't intend to change that), that's why I refuse to run some perl "installer" of to me unknown crappiness as root. Spamassassin installs well, and as non-root. Perl-rpms hardly ever work when installed on a system other than the one they were made on, C programs often do, especially when they're simple GUI ones such as sixpack. You can argue whatever, perl is more trouble to install than C.
Your point about users, time and source can be extended to installation. I shouldn't need to learn perl to install a perl app...
Maybe we should continue this discussion over a sixpack ;)
IMHO perl + GUI = useless combination, so don't waste your time and getIM not-so HO, the choice of the underlying language is utterly
something with a future instead.
irrelevant to an end-user.
Not quite. The point I was getting at was that, by choice of perl + GUI, the result will be bloated and slow. I have doubts this can be fixed. pybliographic starts up several times faster than sixpack, and is much more responsive. Python is known to be much more efficient (actually close to/same as C++, there's a paper on that). This is end-user relevant, indirectly maybe.
The myth of open-source is that "any user" can fix the
distributed code to do what they want. This is simply not true - it
requires skills and time that most users don't have.
Different topic, but true. We all still prefer open source, and know why.
Volker
