Re: sharing a bibliography

2005-12-24 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 23 2005, Joe Mc Cool wrote: > I am sometimes worried that I am investing a lot of time in something > that just _might_ be superceeded in a few years time ? Well, there is also quite a lot of advance in the (La)TeX land. And I wouldn't worry too much about LaTeX becoming obsolete, because

Using LaTeX and references (was: Re: sharing a bibliography)

2005-12-24 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 23 2005, Daniel Webb wrote: > Ah, well, I'm not sure. I have always used it with Latex/Bibtex. > You'll notice in the Jabref window where a reference is edited, there > is a "bibtexkey" field. Supposing the bibtexkey for an article is > "bob:95:pumpkin". Within a Latex document, I just pu

Re: sharing a bibliography

2005-12-23 Thread Michael Marsh
On 12/23/05, Joe Mc Cool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 04:15:31AM -0700, Daniel Webb wrote: > > Especially if you typeset mathematics, Latex makes Word and Openoffice look > > like toys, and we're talking about a program the basis of which has been > > Yes, agreed. But are t

Re: sharing a bibliography

2005-12-23 Thread Joe Mc Cool
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 04:15:31AM -0700, Daniel Webb wrote: > Latex is a huge learning investment, but if you write a lot, or are planning Too right, I am struggling through that investment at the minute but loving every minute of it. > Especially if you typeset mathematics, Latex makes Word an

Re: sharing a bibliography

2005-12-23 Thread Daniel Webb
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 10:02:44AM +, michael wrote: > Sorry for not being clear. I want a place to store my refs, that I can > access (ie both read the refs but also cut'n'paste into Linux/OpenOffice > and Windoze/Word) from several machines (if that means copying the > database about that is

Re: sharing a bibliography

2005-12-23 Thread michael
> > > > > I was thinking about using the bibliography 'database' in OpenOffice to > > > store all my references (and to include short notes such as 'read/not > > > read', 'contains vital info on XY and Z'). But I need to share said info > > > across machines, generally Debian but not the same ver

Re: sharing a bibliography

2005-12-22 Thread Luis Fernando Llana Díaz
El Jueves, 22 de Diciembre de 2005 21:05, michael escribió: > I was thinking about using the bibliography 'database' in OpenOffice to > store all my references (and to include short notes such as 'read/not > read', 'contains vital info on XY and Z'). > An excellent tool to store and retrieve bibli

Re: sharing a bibliography

2005-12-22 Thread Daniel Webb
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 08:05:40PM +, michael wrote: > I was thinking about using the bibliography 'database' in OpenOffice to > store all my references (and to include short notes such as 'read/not > read', 'contains vital info on XY and Z'). But I need to share said info > across machines, g