Hi Jukka (and Frank) Nice references! I think I will give rubber a spin. Not that I am lost in my makefiles but indeed there might be something better. jabref sounds cool too. Indeed Java GUI probably is quite nasty but your description gives some nice features which I think are not present in pybliographer which I'm using at the moment and which I really like. if only someone packaged it for debian well -- there was ITP http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2005/03/msg01069.html Frank, how is packaging going or did you abandoned the idea? -- Yarik On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 01:01:38PM +0300, Jukka Suomela wrote: > Hi all, > Here is a list of some tools which I find useful and noone else has mentioned > yet. (Sorry if I missed someone's email.) > - glpk: > An LP and MILP solver library. > I can't say I like the API that much. The header files pollute the name space > by defining macros like "print". There are useful functions for printing LP > problems in human and machine readable formats but those functions can only > print to a named file, not to an open file handle or such. There are problems > with const correctness. C arrays which are indexed from element 1 instead of > 0 make your C code look nonidiomatic and thus error-prone. > However, the thing seems to do what I want, and the reference manual is great. > Just don't say I didn't warn you. The lp-solve (i.e. lp_solve) library seemed > to be an even worse mess, YMMV. > - rubber: > I always use this tool to build my Latex documents. Thanks to it, Latex is now > a productive tool instead of a PITA. > One simple command "rubber -Wall foo.tex" automatically performs all steps to > build up-to-date dvi, ps, pdf, etc. versions of the Latex document, including > things like running bibtex and converting images to eps or pstex format if > needed. It hides all garbage printed by Latex, parses error messages, and > prints relevant messages in a human-readable format. Thanks to the -Wall > switch, it can even print warnings when there was no need to re-run Latex > this time. > Magic "% rubber: ..." comments inside the Latex source can be used to specify > paths for Latex class files, bibliography files, bibtex style files, etc.; > you can also specify if and how you want to create ps and pdf versions. You > don't need to maintain any external Makefiles or worry about your build > environment; one Latex source file is enough. This is important when more > than one people are working on the same document: checkout the document from > the version control system, run rubber, and you've got the most up-to-date > version of the paper. > - jabref: > A GUI for maintaining a bibliography in a bibtex file. (Not in Debian as far > as I know; see http://jabref.sourceforge.net/ ; written in Java, so > installation is relatively easy if you have a working Java environment.) > Naturally, there are many similar tools. I don't know if there is anything > better; JabRef is far from perfect, but at least the following aspects are, > in my opinion, useful: First of all, it is not just a bibtex editor, it is > also useful for storing interesting articles and browsing and reading them. > The current version works fine in a group work model where the bibliography > file and the corresponding PDF files of the articles are kept in a version > control system. JabRef supports things like maintaining a tree-like hierarchy > of categories and storing one article in multiple categories. It supports > Latin-1 characters nowadays quite well. It can automatically generate bibtex > entry keys by using a customisable key generation rule. It runs in Windows, > too, which can be an important aspect in group work. > If you are looking for a tool like this, you might want to give it a try. Just > don't give up immediately when you notice that the usability of the GUI is > far from what one sees in commercial software. One can get used to it. > Best regards, > Jukka Suomela -- .-. =------------------------------ /v\ ----------------------------= Keep in touch // \\ (yoh@|www.)onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko /( )\ ICQ#: 60653192 Linux User ^^-^^ [175555]
Attachment:
pgpFOu1wsy7ui.pgp
Description: PGP signature