Re: Another bibliography management software.
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
<jordigh@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/05/2008, Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> wrote:
> > Biologists use a lot MS word for preparing manuscripts, in particular
> > for the features that allow to put comments in bubbles displayed in the
> > margin. Typically, the manuscript circulates among authors and each add
> > modifications and comments, that are eventually stably integrated in the
> > manuscript by the main writer.
>
> Interesting. I have been writing my thesis as a back-and-forth thing
> between my advisor and me, and I print it out, he writes on the
> margins, I retype things, and it goes back to him. The best
> replacement to the bubble system I can think of is some source
> management system, like git, hg, or svn. I'm not sure I'd be able to
> easily sway my advisor to learn to use either one of those, though.
>
> Is there anything better in Debian?
I think not. I run Office 2007 in a virtual machine for solely -this- reason.
- Andrew Kvalheim
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