On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Nirmal Govind wrote:
> Rich - you may want to take a look at some of the frontends out there
> that create the bib file for you.. so you'll just have to enter the
> info. into nice GUIs... gBib and sixpack are on Linux systems, there's
> tkbibtex on Windows... there're a few more like EndNote and
> pybliographer too that you can try..
nirmal,
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm using refDB for my reference library, but
it will be quite some time before I get all the entries (several hundred of
them) converted from the old system. It's boring work so I do only a few at
a time.
In the meantime, the references that I'm using in the book I'll just add
to the book.bib file so they're available right away.
FWIW, I don't like GUIs. I put up with 'em because sometimes there's no
choice (Eclipse) or becuase they actually make life easier (LyX vs. LaTeX),
but I try to do as much work as possible on a console (like now when I
logged on and didn't start X) or in virtual terminals. If I never had to use
a rodent -- other than with graphics applications -- I'd be a much happier
touch-typist. :-)
Rich
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