On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 11:32:25AM +0100, Nachev, Parashkev C wrote:

> It seems to me the main thing that is stopping the whole of the
> scientific community switching to Lyx is the lack of an easy way of
> integrating it with bibliographic management software.  None of the open
> source bibliographic software has the functionality of Endnote, in
> particular the ability to search, retreive, and insert citations to
> online references.  If there is any way of incorporating a plug-in that
> will do this I think Lyx may even kill off Word, in academia at least.

If I remember correctly, most of the big online databases use
proprietary stuff in terms of access, and it's not simple for free
software to use them. But as Martin says, that's something for
Pybibliographer or whatever, not lyx itself

regards
john

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