> 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?
There isn't such thing, and I don't know whether it's planned, but there were some very capable and infomred sounding people on the pyblio mailing list discussing the general future of open source bibliography handling. They were discussing grand style though, and I concluded to not expect any practically usable bits soon. If I had plenty of spare time I'd learn python and see if something like this could be implemented. Copying the info from the browser window is the last thing I consider doing. There are conversion programs available for all the formats I came across, and there's more info about how-to and their pitfalls on my website. You use your browser to save to file and then convert to bibtex. If you have anything to do with the IEEE, my converter is the only one available (for a bunch of engineers, IEEE's IT must be rated at diabolical). Using the bib-fixer framework shouldn't make it too hard to add basic support for another format. I found endnote to be a sufficiently big PITA that I wouldn't consider using it for data base searching. Beware, "bibtex support" means bibtex-*IMPORT* for mickey documents. Bibtex *export* doesn't feature in any of those mickeyware peoples' mindset. Its export function was a complete waste of my time. > 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'. Sounds like it requires serious awareness and programming in the editor. You might be able to hack up something standalone (I want a copy). So far I couldn't see an advantage of pyblio over nedit and bibtool, so I stayed with the text editor method. When I write documents, I need to have the .bib files on screen anyway because I keep my comments/summaries etc in there with the bibliographic entry. Getting the cite key across simply becomes copy/paste. You should find my listbib project helpful, I still have to put the last changes in and finalise the design of several extensions. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
