I use JabRef on Mac OS X, which I chose initially because it
interfaces with LyX. I am mostly happy with it. My two complaints are
the same as Charles de Miramon's: JabRef is a little slow and you
have to get rid of ASCII characters with diacritics in your
bibliography before you convert it to JabRef format, because JabRef
will mangle them.
I tried using BibDesk and didn't get too far with it, though some
features of the interface are very nice. Apparently, there is also a
way to make it work with LyX, via AppleScript:
http://www.threewordslong.com/projects/misc/bibdesktolyx/
The scripts on that webpage are for LyX 1.3.5 and 1.3.6.
Maria
On Mar 30, 2006, at 9:22 AM, Richard Heck wrote:
I've tried a whole lot of these GUIs, and Pybliographer
(http://pybliographer.org/) is by far my favorite. Pybliographer is
written in Python, but with a Gnome GUI. I don't know if it actually
needs more than the GTK libraries. If it does, then that should be
fixed, as there's really no reason it shouldn't run on other
platforms.
In any event, Pybliographer is in active development and has a
responsive mailing list. And since it's written in Python, it's pretty
easy to hack on it.
Before I started with Pybliographer, I used TkBibTex, which is written
in Tcl/Tk. It's a bit old now, but still works reasonably well.
Richard Heck
Tim Vaughan wrote:
Hi,
I plan on using Bibtex to handle the citations needed for a series of
essays I am writing. I have come across two Java GUIs, JabRef and
Bib-it and an OS X one, BibDesk.
I'm happy to try them all out but I was wondering if people had
experience with these programs or others and which they would
recommend?
Tim
