On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Jeremy Wells wrote:
I have now come full circle and am again looking at Lyx in combination with JabRef. In my assessment, the biggest weakness of Lyx and Latex is problems with supporting different bibliography and citation styles. In my field (historic preservation), which is quite multidisciplinary, I may be called on to conform to hundreds of different bibliography/citation styles for which there is no relevant bibtex style file.
Jeremy, I suppose that "quite multidisciplinary" is different from my subject areas; they're only "slightly multidisciplinary." :-)
Solutions?
Yes: RefDB <http://refdb.sourceforge.net/index.html>. Markus is incredibly responsive to requests for enhancements, the system supports many different journal styles, and users come from a wide spectrum of subject specialties. A fellow at a Canadian university's English Department heads their digital antiquities project (or something like that) and uses RefDB. He asked for a more automated install script, and a bunch of us are testing it on different distributions and finding those things that work in FreeBSD but not linux. The application can also read the formats of various on-line databases, too. RefDB works with PostgreSQL (8.1.x), Sqlite, Sqlite3, and MySQL. It can be set up on a server separate from the clients, and users can share a single database (with read access to entries not their own) or multiple databases. It exports to BibTeX and RIS (perhaps other formats), and imports from those as well as the on-line formats. Take a look. It's a great tool with a dedicated creator. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | The Environmental Permitting Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.(TM) | Accelerator <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
