To reiterate, my main issue is with bibliography/citation formatting. I looked briefly at RefDB and rejected it because the documentation specifically said:
"refdb performs only a very limited amount of formatting for those items which are not well supported in BibTeX. [...] All other formatting is left to the LaTeX/BibTeX system." (http://refdb.sourceforge.net/manual/x193.html#AEN210) Has this changed? If not, I don't think RefDB will solve the problem. -Jeremy > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rich Shepard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Jeremy Wells" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Bibliography/citation formatting issues > Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 06:35:00 -0700 (PDT) > > > 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 >
