Maria Gouskova wrote: > I use JabRef on Mac OS X, which I chose initially because it > interfaces with LyX. I am mostly happy with it. My two complaints are > the same as Charles de Miramon's: JabRef is a little slow and you > have to get rid of ASCII characters with diacritics in your > bibliography before you convert it to JabRef format, because JabRef > will mangle them. >
Tellico is fully UTF-8 and works well with non-English languages. Tellico's developper, Robby Stephenson is very responsive. Tellico has a nice feature where you can directly search and import in your database references from online catalogs (Amazon, Library of Congress and Libraries catalogs with a z.390 interface). Tellico has also auto-completion of fields which saves time. The downside of Tellico is that the internal format is not BibTeX, you have to export at some point your database in BibTeX and make, if needed, some modifications in the .bib file. PyBibliographer strong point is that it works with .bib file and that you can change the subtle stuff inside the application. Cb2bib is a different kind of application. You have bibliographic references in free format (on the Web, in a footnote of an article), you paste it in your clipboard and call cb2bib. It will parse it and try to create a BibTex entry. Real geeks can even create new regular expressions to parse their favorite bibliographical database. Nice and original software. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
