There are several (free and non-free) reference managers in the "market". Zotero is one of them, JabRef is another, personally I use (and recommend) Bibus. There are even more. A comparison can be found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software here . Most can handle BibTex.
It seems to me that implied in the original post is the question whether LibO should join this "market", offering a (full fledged?) bibliography/reference manager. This will require, of course, the ability to directly import Bibtex files. My impression is that: (1) there are plenty of good-enough (and getting better) reference manager programs; (2) developing a good one is not trivial; (3) the variety of programs indicate a variety of needs and usage style - implementing one in LibO might make people unhappy with LibO because they don't like the way it handles bibliography, which is not its main object in the first place... so I think that LibO should focus on providing a good and easy to use interface (API?) for other /programs/ that take bibliography/reference as their main business. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Feature-request-native-BibTeX-support-tp3157370p3158509.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
