On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:20:15 +1100 Michael Lake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gavin Carr wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've just had a friend ask me whether there's anything in the free > > software world for academic research / writing i.e. tracking > > bibliographic info, citations, quotes etc., and then collating them > > into a written product. He's used a commercial Windows product > > called Nota Bene before: > > > > http://www.notabene.com/product_tour_overview1.html > > > > Sounds like the sort of thing that much be an itch for lots of > > academics, but I've not run across anything more specialised like > > this in the free software world. > > > > Any cluesticks? What do you real academics out there use (without > > wanting to start an editor and/or word processor war!). > > As he is using Windows he might like to look at this: > http://www.wibtex.de/ > > It appears to interface to BibTeX which is the standard for biblio > data in the UNIX/Linux world but also works with MS Word. > > I have not tried it myself. I just use gvim and raw bibtex files. I use Emacs + Auctex + Reftex to write in LaTeX as a replacement for Nota Bene. BibTeX does the same thing (only better) as the Nota Bene system. Reftex gives the "consistent citation" stuff. Emacs searces (not to mention more powerful find, etc) do the searching stuff. In addition, you get consistent multiple indexes. I think it is better, but I haven't used Nota Bene in quite a few years. Alan > > Mike > -- > Michael Lake > Computational Research Support Unit > Science Faculty, UTS > Ph: 9514 2238 > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 427 486 206 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 FWD: 615662 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
