I use a combination of Zotero, a firefox plugin (www.zotero.org), and
Jabref. In the future Zotero itself might hopefully be able to directly
push citations to lyx which will probably mean the end for jabref on my
laptop. Until now it has at least a direct copy function (ctrl+alt+c)
which allows you to insert a citation in Bibtex format.
At the moment I use Zotero to collect citations and pdf files (which is
very easy with the built in attachment function. When I'm done I export
the database from Zotero to Jabref (either via ctrl+alt+c or the export
to Bibtex mode) and use JR only to store the database and to push to lyx.
Zotero makes my life a lot easier as I'm able to manage my literature
while browsing without having to klick around between several programs.
The plugin is able to grab citations directly from webpages and from the
most important online Databases (e.g. WebOfScience, Jstor, Blackwell,
Wikipedia and many more) with one single click! Amazon is also supported
which is very nice for books.
I think Zotero is one of the most promising programs in the field of
literature management. The only thing that I miss is a push to lyx
function from within firefox. I've filed a feature request a while ago
(http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/537/lyx-support/#Item_0) and one of
the developers wrote that he thinks it wouldn't be very difficult to
program a lyx integration for Zotero and they would guide someone
through it. But I've got no programming experience at all, so I don't
think that someone is working on that at the moment. Is there maybe
someone here in lyx community who has the knowledge and is interested to
make that work (and probably many scientists happy)?
If one day Zotero can communicate with lyx I'm pretty sure that a whole
bunch of MSWord/Endnote people would switch to lyx as the combination
offers a huge potential to save some time and trouble when writing
scientific papers. But thats just me dreaming ... :-)
Cheers!
Michael
Ares schrieb:
Here I am back with a new, silly question: what is the most favourite
bibtex editor under GNU/linux? I have been using JabRef under Windows,
but I realised that it runs under the Java Runtime Environment, and I
do not want to install new components if I do not really need them...
So, let's go with the poll!
