On Bibtex, command line editing, and GUIs ... My fingers think in emacs, and although I now work on a Mac after 16 years on SunOS, Solaris, and predecessors, I instinctively gravitate toward command line solutions in unfamiliar situations.
That said, I would strongly urge using a good GUI Bibtex manager. Unless you enter Bibtex entries every day, or at least every week, so that the syntax and special formatting tricks (even of the emacs bibtex-mode) are fingertip-familiar, using a command line tool will mean relearning the tricks and format each time you go back to add to your bibliographies. GUI tools were made for exactly that situation of periodic unfamiliarity. And some GUI tools, like pybibliographer, not only offer a full range of entry options, but also convenient features like automatically injecting a reference into LyX. For what it is worth, I use Bibdesk. On the LyX/Mac howto I recommend a bunch of other Bibtex managers compatible with LyX/Mac. There are even more good Bibtex managers available for X11. -- Ronald Florence www.18james.com
