On 9/11/20 12:26 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
I've used JabRef for years but 5.x frustrates me to no end. They've
lost the
emacs keyboard chords that were present from 1.x through 4.x so to
edit an
abstract, for example, I need to use the arrow and Del keys. And, they've
changed the UI so some data entry tabs have their widgets on the left
half
of the application window and the entry preview on the right halt. But,
accessing the right-hand column of the data entry widgets must be done
blind
because that half window cannot be expanded to the right. Serious
PITA. Yes,
I've filed bug issues on both but nothing's been fixed. I've tried using
KDE's bibliography tool but that was equally frustrating. And Zotero
doesn't
use bibtex.
Since I'm not a full-time researcher I don't need to share the
bibiography
with collaborators and I will not store it somewhere in the cloud; my
data,
my network. I also don't particularly care for a GUI; text-based works
for
me since that's how I do most of my work (except when using LyX).
I've about 1,200 books and PDFs in the bibtex database and other than
entering new documents I want to search primarily by keywords,
secondarily
by authors.
Does anyone know of a CLI bibliographic tool? Or a basic one with a
GUI that
Just Works(TM)?
TIA,
Rich
I haven't used it (I'm sticking with JabRef), but Mendeley
<https://www.mendeley.com/reference-management/reference-manager> has a
GUI that seems reasonable to me, can export .bib files, and has an
interesting "sync" feature that will update exported .bib files without
having to save a new one. (You still have to click a button to sync
changes, so I'm not sure this is a huge improvement over just exporting
a new copy.) I've also seen indications on the Mendeley site that there
is some sort of drag-and-drop interface where you can just feed it a PDF
file and have it suss out the basic citation poop. U. of Melbourne has a
page with information
<https://unimelb.libguides.com/c.php?g=565734&p=3897116> on how to use
it with LaTeX.
Paul
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