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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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