I've become a conservative (technologically, speaking, not politically :)), and so don't use a GUI for this. I use GNU emacs to edit LaTeX and BibTeX files "by hand" with the assistance of AucTeX-mode and flyspell. I made the switch from Word to LaTeX while working on the first chapter of my dissertation; I spent, *literally*, an entire day getting a single figure placed where I wanted it to go on the page, and decided enough was enough. I was already a unix geek at work, so backed up my home machine, loaded debian, and was off!
I haven't seen xisi2bib, but I'll check it out - it looks promising. The least satisfying part of my writing environment is entering bibtex entries by hand. Not that it's terribly difficult, but automating it would be more pleasant. Best, A ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Douglas Kojetin wrote: > Thanks for all the informative replies. Does anyone know if bibtex (or > something similar) could be useful to keep track of not only references > but PDF files as well? I have a ton (quantity ton, not weight ton ... > :) ) of articles I'd like to 'link' to my references, search through, > then find what PDFs I might want to read. Any ideas? I've seen the > package Librarian on the bioinformatics website, but that's not > necessarily what I had in mind: a) it's web-based and b) the GUI isn't > what I was looking for in terms of displaying/updating information. > > I mostly use PubMed, and the easiest way for me to do things so far has > been to search PubMed (it'll do ISI WOS, and many other online > databases) within EndNote and save as a bibtex file. But ... I might > have to play around with non-EndNote software in the near future! > > BTW, what do you guys use for LaTeX editors? I've been pretty > satisfied with TeXShop, but I'd like to get a feel for what others use. > > Thanks, > Doug > > > On Mar 24, 2004, at 11:04 PM, Ed Hill wrote: > > I use Makefiles with LaTeX occasionally but the above method is > > sufficient for most needs. > > > > And, like Andrew, I have a few huge bibtex files that I've edited and > > copied around for some years. More recently, I've been using "isi2bib" > > or "xisi2bib": > > > > http://www.chemphys.lu.se/Homepages/h_nienhuys/p/latex/i2b/ > > > > to convert entries from the ISI Web of Science. Also, take a look at > > bibtexml > > > > http://bibtexml.sourceforge.net/ > > > > which can be used, along with free Java XSLT packages (eg. xerces & > > xalan) to produce reasonably-good-quality HTML markup from your ISI > > and/or bibtex collections. > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
