On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 11:51:44 +0100 (MET) wrote "Jean-Pierre.Chretien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> You may use the bib record structure to declare more fields than > what is actually needed by the bst files (I personnaly used for a while > bib records for address database indexing with bibindex), so the "import > from .bib" function of amsref may perfectly use non standard .bib fields. > (and the bib records clearly did evolve e.g. to include urls). I know this, and I wrote a bibtex parser for tkbibtex that supports nonstandard fields as well (showing them in the edit-window and saving back to file, indicating that these will not show up in the references with the bibtex-standard styles) > >>The question is: Do we like to support amsref in LyX? > > I think more efficient to have a standalone tool to check bib records > in a given style (I have written one) than checking the database > in the document. If the record is OK, it will show OK in the output, > you don't even have to check it again. > In that line, output check of bib records should rather be in > the database maintaining tool (involving batch lyxing e.g.) than > in LyX itself. I totally agree. My feature request was to enable the >Insert>Citation dialog to work with a amsref *.ltb database as well as with a *.bib, showing the available keys and their content. Also, amsref has a more helpfull error-reporting, so that the check of the database integrity can be left to amstex. Guenter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
