>>Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 09:35:46 +0200 (CEST)
>>From: Guenter Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Subject: Re[2]: pybliographic
>>To: LyX Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>>On Thu, 3 May 2001 20:23:18 +0200 wrote Peter Suetterlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>
>>> Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote:
>>>
>>> > >>> Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
>>> > >>> > I am using pybliographic for lyx (the excuse for asking here)
>>> > >>> > and wonder whether somebody knows how to get rid of double entries
>>>
>>> > AFAIR, this produces a warning, not an error: the first entry
>>> > only is kept, and the warnin allows tocheck if the data are really
>>> > the same.
>>>
>>> It indeed is a problem. I think if pybliographic finds double entries
>>> during merge it automatically assigns a new key (normally aold key +
>>> -a). But no warning.
>>>
>>> > Have a look at Nelson Beebe's suite of scripts to control
>>> > a set of bib files, I found it quite useful.
>>>
>>Have you tried
>>
>>ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool.tar.gz ?
>>
>>BibTool is a really mighty tool when it comes to
>>processing .bib files. BibTool can find out doublettes on the base of
>>content and is even configurable regarding on what to see as relevant (e.g.
>>just Author/Title or also Year or Journal...) So it is your friend if there
>>are different keys for the same citation.
>>The disatvantage is the lacking GUI:
>>there is some overhead, as you have to
>>compile it yourself and carefully study the (very good but also complex)
>>documentation.
Don't need a GUI there, it's mostly for automated reference management,
so batch work is needed.
>>
>>Another (faster) possibility would be tkbibtex:
>>
>>http://www.cat.csiro.au/cmst/staff/pic/tkbibtex.html
>>
>>In tkbibtex, if you merge two files, you will be asked for every already
>>existing key whether to overwrite or to skip. If there are not too many
>>doublettes, this might be the fastest way, as tkbibtex is just one "download
>>and run" file. (As long as you have tcl/Tk installed, which should be the
>>case for most Unix/Linux systems).
Very fast really, and needed to feed the LyX pipe I guess ?
Thnaks for your hints.
--
Jean-Pierre
