On 22.3.2012 20:36, David L. Johnson wrote:
On 03/22/2012 02:08 PM, Alex Vergara Gil wrote:
I have an objection to the use of bibitems in LyX: If you use BibTeX
you can choose the bibliographic standard such as Vancouver, etc,
besides the BibTeX sorts bibliography items in the required order
acordingly to the standard; with LyX's bibitems you simply cannot do
this and is like turning back to MS Office. Is this a bug?
No, it's not a bug. Perhaps it's old-fashioned, but I've never seen the
need to bother with bibtex. Most of my papers have maybe 5-10
references, that is certainly easy enough to do "by hand".
The bibitems are also extremely convenient to use if you have to cite
more odd sources like interviews from certain archives and so on. I
usually have two environments for my sources; first the oddballs from
different archives as bibitems, followed by the literature references as
a BibTeX bibliography. Both can be seen in the LyX citing menus.
Niklas Huldén
