El 20/04/2012 08:18 a.m., Liviu Andronic escribió:
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Alex Vergara Gil<a...@cphr.edu.cu> wrote:
at all. This is why LyX should have a reference manager. However if you get
Perhaps it _should_ not. LyX has evolved, in the spirit of Linux apps
development, to be very flexible and interact with a myriad of 3rd
party tools (LaTeX, docbook, HTML, Inkscape, various converters,
Sweave, Gnumeric, etc.), and thankfully so. It does not try to do
everything and all, as monolithic Windows programs usually do.
Instead, it delegates many low-level tasks to external programs. If
you have a preference for a reference manager in particular, then use
it to manage your references: LyX will automatically pick up the
changes.
In this point I am not fully agree. LyX integrates Gnumeric spreadsheets
into it, can edit LaTeX command directly and so on, off course you must
have the external programs to do this but they are integrated with LyX.
So why not to integrate a Bibliography manager also?
It may be nice, perhaps, for LyX to provide an 'Edit BibTeX refs'
button that would allow to easily launch your preferred reference
manager on your ref library. But that is a different matter.
I'm ok with this last point, but actually lyx doesn't have this. So "it
may be nice" yes.
of users choice and possibilities, and LyX should fit to every user need.
Most certainly not. LyX is a document processor, and as such provides
an efficient environment to author documents. It also provides
facilities to use references. However, it is not in the reference
management business; if you want to manage your references, use a
specialized app (or a text editor).
But is not LyX a "text editor" or a "specialized app" also? or I am
missing something.
Regards
Liviu
