El 22/03/2012 12:36 p.m., David L. Johnson escribio':
On 03/22/2012 02:08 PM, Alex Vergara Gil wrote:
I have an objection to the use of bibitems in LyX: If you use BibTeX
you can choose the bibliographic standard such as Vancouver, etc,
besides the BibTeX sorts bibliography items in the required order
acordingly to the standard; with LyX's bibitems you simply cannot do
this and is like turning back to MS Office. Is this a bug?
No, it's not a bug. Perhaps it's old-fashioned, but I've never seen
the need to bother with bibtex. Most of my papers have maybe 5-10
references, that is certainly easy enough to do "by hand".
When I wrote my MSc thesis I must handled with 80 citations in a 100
page piece of work, imagine sort them one by one and changing from order
of apearance to alphabetical just to adjust your work to the
requirements of the institute!!! It is indeed old fashioned, you must
tell the software what kind of bibliography you need and it must
automatically reshape and sort it. BibTeX does this work, why LyX can't?
As initial step I would like to recommend developers to include an
option to export bibitems to BibTeX, and a final option should be the
use of BibTeX to produce the bibliography from bibitems. This is not too
hard to do since most of the work is already done!
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David L. Johnson
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