On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:06:41 +1100 Sridhar Dhanapalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Russell Davie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:09:00 +1100 > > > > Gavin Carr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > > > For document editing: > > LyX is "front end" for LaTeX and in current development and regular updates > > available. http://www.lyx.org/ > > now version 1.5.0 in beta, very slick improvement over previous versions. > > Kile is a more user-friendly KDE-based TeX/LaTeX editor: > http://kile.sourceforge.net/ > > KBibTeX specifically targets the bibliography features of LaTeX: > http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=27421 More user friendly? How so if Kile requires the user to learn LaTeX markup language before they can produce a document? LyX enables a user to produce a document without having to learn LaTeX. This is avoids the significant and extra LaTeX learning curve. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
