Re: [NTG-context] OT: What reference management software do you use?

2011-05-24 Thread Stefan Müller
On 23.05.2011 23:47, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: As to the question "why strings": Pontus's answer named one important aspect. I have several .bib files which contain nothing but string definitions: one with abbreviated, one with full journal titles; one with English strings ("reprint," "Munich")

Re: [NTG-context] OT: What reference management software do you use?

2011-05-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 23, 2011, at 11:32 PM, John Haltiwanger wrote: > I hope my question does not come off as too aggressive, but why on earth are > we still using BibTeX? Or, more accurately, when can we _stop_ using BibTeX > and move onto something that has native UTF-8 support and can also integrate > wi

Re: [NTG-context] OT: What reference management software do you use?

2011-05-23 Thread Otso Helenius
> What is the next step for bibliographies in Context? Surely we won't be > chained to BibTeX (which has seemingly been largely been in practice for the > sake of BibLaTeX) forever? Perhaps Biber (http://biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net/) could fill the void. It supports Unicode, is BibTeX compatibl

Re: [NTG-context] OT: What reference management software do you use?

2011-05-23 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Mon 23 May 2011, Stefan Müller wrote: > Okay, then I should definitely take a look at JabRef. Anyhow, maybe I'm > naive here, but I don't see a reason why Zotero should support BibTeX > Strings. If I type the BibTeX file manually, sure. But Zotero reads the > (e.g.) Journal names from the

Re: [NTG-context] OT: What reference management software do you use?

2011-05-23 Thread John Haltiwanger
I hope my question does not come off as too aggressive, but why on earth are we still using BibTeX? Or, more accurately, when can we _stop_ using BibTeX and move onto something that has native UTF-8 support and can also integrate with a reasonable configuration environment such as CSL? What is the

Re: [NTG-context] OT: What reference management software do you use?

2011-05-23 Thread Stefan Müller
Okay, then I should definitely take a look at JabRef. Anyhow, maybe I'm naive here, but I don't see a reason why Zotero should support BibTeX Strings. If I type the BibTeX file manually, sure. But Zotero reads the (e.g.) Journal names from the corresponding websites, so there should be no need

Re: [NTG-context] OT: What reference management software do you use?

2011-05-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 23, 2011, at 10:45 PM, Stefan Müller wrote: > +1 for Zotero > > I tried Mendeley some time ago. It's standalone but sill quite similar to > Zotero. "Browser-integration" works via a special bookmark. It also has an > embedded pdf-viewer, which is very neat. Reason for changing to Zotere

Re: [NTG-context] OT: What reference management software do you use?

2011-05-23 Thread Stefan Müller
On 22.05.2011 22:14, Otso Helenius wrote: using ConTeXt and not LaTeX you maybe also use a nice reference management software the main stream does not know about. But probably it is not related to ConTeXt at all since it is BibTeX in the end. I can warmly recommend Zotero. It works very well

Re: [NTG-context] OT: What reference management software do you use?

2011-05-22 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sat 21 May 2011, Paul Menzel wrote: > using ConTeXt and not LaTeX you maybe also use a nice reference > management software the main stream does not know about. But > probably it is not related to ConTeXt at all since it is BibTeX in > the end. As someone using stone-age reference management (

Re: [NTG-context] OT: What reference management software do you use?

2011-05-22 Thread Otso Helenius
>using ConTeXt and not LaTeX you maybe also use a nice reference >management software the main stream does not know about. But probably it >is not related to ConTeXt at all since it is BibTeX in the end. I can warmly recommend Zotero. It works very well and can fetch content directly from web page

Re: [NTG-context] OT: What reference management software do you use?

2011-05-22 Thread Joerg . Hagmann
Hi Paul, I recently switched from "Papers" (Mac only, commercial) to JabRef. Advantages: JabRef is open source, and I can use it at work (Macs) and at home (Linux). I like it -- it has everything I need (searching PubMed etc., managing a collection of pdf-files...). Cheers, Jörg Quoting