On Monday 28 December 2009 01:26:04 Petr Šimon wrote: > Hello, > I have put together a simple plugin for Zotero that does little more > than just inserting citations to LyX documents. It's been inspired by > Lytero, which I wanted to improve, but ended up starting from scratch > (with some help of Lytero code). Hence the new name. > > My ideal for LyX/Zotero plugin was: > 1. no need to export to bibtex every time I added articles to Zotero > 2. automatic updates of the bibtex database > 3. no need to specify the document and bibtex file every time I close > Zotero or LyX > 4. custom keys > > Hope others will find it useful. > Please see: http://www.klubko.net/?page_id=945 for details and the > installation file. > I have tested only on Windows XP, Firefox 3.5.6. It seems to be working > quite smoothly, but more testing and some improvement will follow. > Please let me know about any problems you encounter and > comments/improvement ideas.
Hi Petr, I know nothing about citations. I've used bibliographies in a couple books, but that's about it. So it would be a great favor to me (and I'm probably not the only one) if you could explain a little about Reference Management Software, why you want it, what you do with it, what you look for in the Reference Management Software best suited to you? What's the difference between citations, references and bibliographies? Assuming citations are individual elements of bibliographies, could you please explain why Zotero makes adding and maintaining them easier than doing it with bibtex or whatever is normally used in LyX? Also, your website has this line: "When you try to add already existing BibTeX database to a new document, you will be warned that you are about to overwrite the file. Don’t worry and press OK. The file is not really going to be overwritten, that’s just standard dialog that I don’t know how to remove (lazy to look :) )." Normally I don't care about errors in new software, but this is a particularly nasty error because it will either: 1) cause people not to use your software, or 2) cause people to disregard your software's overwrite warnings, even when it's really true. #1 is bad, #2 is disastrous. I'd suggest you find and fix that one bug. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
