It's a LaTeX GUI. http://www.lyx.org/
I approve of the LaTeX/BibTeX approach. BibTeX was the first (but not last!) document syntax that drove me to write Makefiles... :-) Chris -----Original Message----- From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 3:49 PM To: dev@river.apache.org Subject: Re: Bibliography format question I know nothing about Lyx, so I'll have to look into it. What format does it keep its files in? Patricia On 3/9/2011 1:32 PM, Peter Firmstone wrote: > For people who don't know TeX, it might be possible to use Lyx? > > Peter. > > Patricia Shanahan wrote: >> On 3/9/2011 11:16 AM, Tom Hobbs wrote: >>> Hi Patricia, >>> >>> The basic rule is, if you're the first person doing it, then you get >>> to chose. And as you say, the result will be in a format that >>> everyone can read and see. I assume that your "left to myself" bit >>> describes a fairly standard way of doing this kind of thing. In which >>> case, I'd say go with that. >> >> The approach I'm considering is the way it is often done in the >> computer science academic world. Its main disadvantage is that it is >> not WYSIWYG. Its advantages are very precise formatting control, text >> source files that work well with revision control, and availability of >> prepared BibTex data for many publications. >> >> However, I don't want to exclude others who might not be familiar with >> LaTex but would otherwise contribute. >> >>> >>> On a vaguely related note. I agree with you that a distributed >>> transaction manager is a more useful (necessary?) addition than a >>> distributed Java Space, so I took the liberty of creating a Jira for >>> tracking it's issues, notes, thoughts etc. >>> >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RIVER-394 >>> >>> I hope that's okay. >> >> It's not just okay, it's excellent. I plan to comment on it as I learn >> relevant information. >> >> Patricia >> > >
