On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:18:30 +1100 Robert Thorsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2007.02.26 17:09 Gavin Carr wrote: > > 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. > > LyX has templates for nearly all major academic thesis/treatise > styles and has all the usual bells and whistles regarding toc, > citations, bibliographies, etc. I think it has been ported to W...$ Yes, LyX is good. I have just used it to layout and typeset a cookbook written by my wife. A very smooth and pleasant experience. No bibliographic references, but it was easy to do cross references and a good index. The only thing it lacks is a good outliner. The other interesting thing was that the LaTeX code that it exported was very clean. I would use it more, but there is no clean support for multiple indexes. They are possible using ERT entries, but that negates some of the advantages of using LyX. Cheers, Alan > > Robert Thorsby > -- > 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
