On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Alex Vergara Gil <a...@cphr.edu.cu> wrote: > at all. This is why LyX should have a reference manager. However if you get > Perhaps it _should_ not. LyX has evolved, in the spirit of Linux apps development, to be very flexible and interact with a myriad of 3rd party tools (LaTeX, docbook, HTML, Inkscape, various converters, Sweave, Gnumeric, etc.), and thankfully so. It does not try to do everything and all, as monolithic Windows programs usually do. Instead, it delegates many low-level tasks to external programs. If you have a preference for a reference manager in particular, then use it to manage your references: LyX will automatically pick up the changes.
It may be nice, perhaps, for LyX to provide an 'Edit BibTeX refs' button that would allow to easily launch your preferred reference manager on your ref library. But that is a different matter. > of users choice and possibilities, and LyX should fit to every user need. > Most certainly not. LyX is a document processor, and as such provides an efficient environment to author documents. It also provides facilities to use references. However, it is not in the reference management business; if you want to manage your references, use a specialized app (or a text editor). Regards Liviu
