Hello, The bibliography is one of the few points in texmacs where the user still have to rely on latex-knowledge. This is sometimes difficult for new users (see the recent request on texmacs-users). Personally, I sometimes forget the key of a bibtex entry in a large database. I can of course retrieve it using grep/vim, but I think some more support is sometimes convenient.
I had a short look at this. Here's what I found so far, hoping it might be useful for others. I have used both pybliographer and tkbibtex before at times. It seems that pybliographer is slightly more developed. Here's some information from the website: (http://pybliographer.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pybliographer is a tool for managing bibliographic databases. It can be used for searching, editing, reformatting, etc. In fact, it's a simple framework that provides easy to use python classes and functions, and therefore can be extended to many uses (generating HTML pages according to bibliographic searches, etc). In addition to the scripting environment, a graphical Gnome interface is available. It provides powerful editing capabilities, a nice hierarchical search mechanism, direct insertion of references into LyX and Kile, direct queries on Medline, and more. It currently supports the following file formats: BibTeX, ISI, Medline, Ovid, Refer. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Both tkbibtex and pybliographer support the so-called lyx-pipe, which communicates via a file. The pyblink tool copies the information from the lyx-pipe to the X-clipboard. It is easy to change this tool so that it outputs the texmacs format. Then this combination can be used in the following way: * select a reference in pybliographic. Choose cite from the menu. Then choose "paste as texmacs" in texmacs. This is quite usable. Possible improvements: * Make texmacs watch the lyx-pipe at all times. (I did not see how to do this using guile extensions). * Create a complete interface to pybliographer in texmacs. Please let me know whether there are better solutions. If not, I could write some documentation on this if anyone thinks this is useful. Bas _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
