On 04/20/12 at 09:57am, Alex Vergara Gil wrote: > > El 20/04/2012 07:46 a.m., PhilipPirrip escribió: > >On 04/20/2012 04:30 PM, Alex Vergara Gil wrote: > >>why should I move out of LyX to edit my Bib files? > > > >Because, as I said, you *don't* need to edit your bib files. You > >can have a program (if your OS is multitasking) to make bib > >database for you, by downloading all the data from the internet. > > > >Do you browse the web also from LyX, or you have to move out of it > >perhaps? > > > Ok now I see your point! Nevertheless the fact that you must be > available to have your references from internet doesn't seem to be > always right for me, in several cases what you have are the articles > because you have the magazine or the authors sent them to you, and > then your approach isn't good at all. This is why LyX should have a > reference manager. However if you get all your article from internet > then you can use your approach. It's a matter of users choice and > possibilities, and LyX should fit to every user need.
I think Philip's point was simply that there are many tasks you don't use LyX for. Browsing the web or checking your email are two of them; managing your bibtex files could be another. I might have missed the beginning of this thread but, when you have used JabRef or some such, what have you found missing? Manolo --
