My point was that it takes 5 minutes to learn BibDesk and it takes how many weeks to write all that code?
el On 2012-12-17 00:26 , Andrew Parsloe wrote: > On 16/12/2012 7:58 p.m., Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: >> Have a look at BibDesk, >> >> takes 1% of the time you took to re-invent the wheel. >> >> el >> >> On 2012-04-17 10:39 , Andrew Parsloe wrote: >>> On 17/04/2012 8:43 p.m., PhilipPirrip wrote: >>>> Excuse me for not trying what you've done, but I have to ask first: why >>>> do you think this is better than using Mendeley, for instance, or some >>>> other bibliography management software? >>>> >>> >>> [...] >> >>> So why don't I get Mendeley (or whatever)? There are many >>> answers to that: life is short and there are lots of things I want to >>> learn other than new software; >> [...] >> > > Old emails never die! This is going back to April. I know there are many > fine bibliography managers, and any mention of the subject always has > people bringing out their favourites. (The same thing happens with > drawing programs.) The impulse that led me to explore editing & > maintaining bibliographies in LyX was that it gave me a vast improvement > over doing the same in a text editor (which is what I had done) and it > meant that I didn't need to learn a new program -- and I was fascinated > by how far one could push LyX in this direction. I'm retired now. I have > only the most occasional need for a bibliography manager. And when I do, > I prefer to use a program I know thoroughly (LyX), even if for this > purpose it lacks the bells & whistles of dedicated programs. For people > in active academic or professional life, the criteria are different. > > Andrew > >
