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List:       lyx-users
Subject:    RE: Suggestion for LyX
From:       "Rob Oakes" <LyX-Devel () oak-tree ! us>
Date:       2009-11-26 17:10:42
Message-ID: 000f01ca6ebb$635dc5b0$2a195110$ () us
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I'd also throw in a plug for Mendeley (http://www.mendeley.com/).  It
combines the best of many programs into one.  You can use it with Zotero to
pull references from the web and with LyX via the BibTeX sync.  More
importantly, it makes it easy to organize your reference library and sync
PDFs across multiple computers.  I've only started to play with the
collaboration features, but so far I've been pretty impressed.
 
I've been using Mendeley for a book project for about a month and a half,
and it has made many things a lot easier.  While it isn't open source, it is
free (as in beer) and cross platform.

Cheers,

Rob Oakes

-----Original Message-----
From: Erez Yerushalmi [mailto:erezyerushalmi@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 9:14 AM
To: lyx-users
Cc: Izwandy Idris
Subject: Re: Suggestion for LyX

Another recommendation is to take a look at a program called Zotero.
http://www.zotero.org/
In my opinion, it is nicer than Refworks or WritenCite....
They have a nice video explaining the main idea of Zotero.

Erez

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 3:06 PM, rgheck <rgheck@bobjweil.com> wrote:

> On 11/26/2009 07:36 AM, Izwandy Idris wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I'm a new user of LyX and I found it very interesting (though I'm still
>> struggling to get familiar with it). I'm currently writing my thesis and
>> need to incorporate citation. At present, I'm using Refworks for my
>> referencing works and changing to BibTex is quite a problem for me since
I'm
>> used to Refworks and moving to another referencing software will take
more
>> time than I have. Is there any way that I can still used Refworks
>> (particularly Write n Cite option) in LyX instead of BibTex?
>>
>>
>>
> Questions like this should be sent to the LyX user's list. This list is
for
> issues with the documentation. I'm cc'ing it over there.
>
> In any event, because LyX acts a frontend to LaTeX, you have to use the
> BibTeX format for your references. RefWorks does export to BibTeX format,
> though, so you can use it with LyX. Just export to BibTeX periodically,
and
> then you can enter your citations in LyX using "Insert>Citation".
>
> That said, however, programs like JabRef that handle BibTeX natively are
> extremely easy to use. I'd recommend you install JabRef (
> http://jabref.sourceforge.net/), export your RefWorks database to BibTeX,
> and then open the resulting *.bib file in JabRef. It'll take you several
> seconds to figure it out.
>
> Richard
>
>


-- 
Erez Yerushalmi
PhD Student, Economics
Warwick University, UK
homepage: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/ep/pg/ecrfaw

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