Re: bibliographic software (linux only)

2020-09-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 15 Sep 2020, Pavel Sanda wrote: Apart from other options mentioned in this thread, what about staying with 4.x? You might by even lucky that snap/flatpack package already exists for 4.x and you could likely stay with that solution for quite a long time... Pavel, My response

Re: bibliographic software (linux only)

2020-09-15 Thread Pavel Sanda
On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 09:26:45AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > I've used JabRef for years but 5.x frustrates me to no end. They've lost the Apart from other options mentioned in this thread, what about staying with 4.x? You might by even lucky that snap/flatpack package already exists for 4.x

Re: bibliographic software (linux only)

2020-09-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 13 Sep 2020, Neal Becker wrote: I'll just warn you that last time I tried biblatex with ieee the spacing looked wrong, bibliography took to much space Neal, My skimmed reading of the manual suggests that's adjustable. Also, any document I produce for a project that contains

Re: bibliographic software (linux only)

2020-09-13 Thread Neal Becker
I'll just warn you that last time I tried biblatex with ieee the spacing looked wrong, bibliography took to much space On Sat, Sep 12, 2020, 4:04 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 12 Sep 2020, V K wrote: > > > I'm historian, so never used this style – I need verbose ones (and even > > heavily

Re: bibliographic software (linux only)

2020-09-12 Thread V K
On Saturday, September 12, 2020, 05:59:43 AM GMT+3, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 11 Sep 2020, Rich Shepard wrote: > I think I've found a solution, and it might work for you, too: pubs > . Will report after I read the docs and take > it for a test drive.

Re: bibliographic software (linux only)

2020-09-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 12 Sep 2020, V K wrote: I'm historian, so never used this style – I need verbose ones (and even heavily modified one of them). So can said nothing about this style. Biblatex uses biber, so I think this is correct. Valdemaras, The biblatex.pdf says it's tied to biber, but also

Re: bibliographic software (linux only)

2020-09-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 11 Sep 2020, Rich Shepard wrote: I think I've found a solution, and it might work for you, too: pubs . Will report after I read the docs and take it for a test drive. Since there's so much wildland fire smoke here I'm staying indoors (except to collect the

Re: bibliographic software (linux only)

2020-09-11 Thread V K
On Friday, September 11, 2020, 07:26:56 PM GMT+3, Rich Shepard wrote: I've used JabRef for years but 5.x frustrates me to no end. They've lost the emacs keyboard chords that were present from 1.x through 4.x so to edit an abstract, for example, I need to use the arrow and Del keys.

re: bibliographic software (linux only)

2020-09-11 Thread V K
On Friday, September 11, 2020, 07:26:56 PM GMT+3, Rich Shepard wrote: I've used JabRef for years but 5.x frustrates me to no end. They've lost the emacs keyboard chords that were present from 1.x through 4.x so to edit an abstract, for example, I need to use the arrow and Del keys. And,

Re: bibliographic software (linux only)

2020-09-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 11 Sep 2020, V K wrote: I'm using Zotero with two extensions: Betterbib(la)tex https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/ to work with biblatex. You can configure almost everything, for example, export to biblatex options – see

Re: bibliographic software (linux only)

2020-09-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 11 Sep 2020, Chris Menzel wrote: The Better BibTeX Zotero plug-in (https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/) beautifully integrates Zotero and BibTeX. I did an initial import of my (very large) BibTeX file into Zotero and now use Zotero exclusively, relying on the plug-in to update my

Re: bibliographic software (linux only)

2020-09-11 Thread Chris Menzel
Rich, The Better BibTeX Zotero plug-in (https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/) beautifully integrates Zotero and BibTeX. I did an initial import of my (very large) BibTeX file into Zotero and now use Zotero exclusively, relying on the plug-in to update my BibTeX file whenever I make changes

Re: bibliographic software (linux only)

2020-09-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 11 Sep 2020, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I haven't used it (I'm sticking with JabRef), but Mendeley ... Thanks, Paul. When I looked at their web site I got the impression that the database is stored in their server, not mine. That's likely highly useful for multiple users of the same

Re: bibliographic software (linux only)

2020-09-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 9/11/20 12:26 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: I've used JabRef for years but 5.x frustrates me to no end. They've lost the emacs keyboard chords that were present from 1.x through 4.x so to edit an abstract, for example, I need to use the arrow and Del keys. And, they've changed the UI so some data

Re: bibliographic software (linux only)

2020-09-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 11 Sep 2020, Maria Gouskova wrote: I used JabRef and BibDesk (Mac OS) for years, and then KDE's KBibTeX, but lately I just open my .bib file in Vim. I found that KBibTeX screwed up the syntax of my file (which has something like 6000 references now, so it was painful to debug). In Vim,

Re: bibliographic software (linux only)

2020-09-11 Thread Maria Gouskova
On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 12:26 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > I've used JabRef for years but 5.x frustrates me to no end. They've lost > the > emacs keyboard chords that were present from 1.x through 4.x so to edit an > abstract, for example, I need to use the arrow and Del keys. And, they've > changed