Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Feature request: native BibTeX support

Thanks for your answers.

Zotero is a very good software but I work mainly in LaTeX and Zotero
supports only a kind of syncronization with a .bib file. Some export
problems exist and for me it is not acceptable because I need a very
clean BibTeX file to produce papers and books. Moreover Zotero works
only under Firefox, right? Not all people in our lab use Firefox.
However I have just visited the Zotero website and seems that alpha
versions for other browser support exist... I'll give it a try and
I'll check again the BibTeX support :)

I have used Bibus up to two years ago to work with OpenOffice but I do
not think is a great software. In Wikipedia a lot of reference
managers are listed but no one has a real support for BibTeX files.
Just export. In my opinion, only Zotero has an advanced management of
BibTeX files thanks to a real time syncronization.

I don't want that LibO becomes a reference manager (no import, no
sorting, no hyperlink, no pdf). My hope is that in the future LibO
could use an external database (BibTeX or SQLite, etc...) without the
need of an external program to cite a reference and to produce a
bibliography. An internal bibliography system already exists in LibO
and in OpenOffice but is very poor.
In this way one can manage its bibliographic database with the program
he/she prefers and then LibO is able to use this databases natively,
without the help of external program and without the need of an API.

Thanks for this nice discussion!

Ciao ciao.
Fra



On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:10, drorlev <dror.sign@gmail.com> wrote:
> There are several (free and non-free) reference managers in the "market".
> Zotero is one of them, JabRef is another, personally I use (and recommend)
> Bibus.
> There are even more. A comparison can be found
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software
> here .
> Most can handle BibTex.
>
> It seems to me that implied in the original post is the question whether
> LibO should join this "market", offering a (full fledged?)
> bibliography/reference manager.
> This will require, of course, the ability to directly import Bibtex files.
>
> My impression is that:
> (1) there are plenty of good-enough (and getting better) reference manager
> programs;
> (2) developing a good one is not trivial;
> (3) the variety of programs indicate a variety of needs and usage style -
> implementing one in LibO might make people unhappy with LibO because they
> don't like the way it handles bibliography, which is not its main object in
> the first place...
>
> so I think that LibO should focus on providing a good and easy to use
> interface (API?) for other /programs/ that take bibliography/reference as
> their main business.
>
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