![]() ![]() It's worth pointing out that BibDesk only updates the BibTex file when the File->Save command in BibDesk is used. To add actual citations I use Insert->Citation which will list all the citations available in the BibTex file. To get BibTex references working I double click on the "BibTex Generated Bibliography" icon at the bottom of the new file created from the template and navigate to the. With AutoFile, BibDesk is designed not only to keep track of reference information but also of the underlying documents being referenced. It's pretty nifty but I did find perusing its manual worthwhile, especially regarding its AutoFile feature. The first step to using BibTex is to get a bibliography manager program which can keep track of all the bibliographic entries. Thankfully there is a great standard called BibTex that handles a lot of the drudgery. One of the more unpleasant tasks in writing a paper with lots of references is keeping track of those references, linking to citations and making sure the bibliography is properly formatted and ordered. The only trick I've had to remember is to press command-return when I want to enter multiple equations at one time. But there is also a graphical formula palette available by right clicking on an equation. What's especially nice is that I can enter the T EX formula commands directly into the dialog and LY X will translate the command on the fly to the right graphical representation. But I believe that the modern versions of L Y X have vastly improved over their predecessors and the learning curve is well worth the effort. L Y X does have a learning curve and one is well advised to at least read the tutorial (Help->Tutorial). ![]() Heck (who has my undying gratitude for fixing HTML generation in L Y X) L Y X is substantially better at generating HTML. And thanks to the efforts of folks like Dr. With the 1.5.1 release I can revise that review to say that it's only minorly irritating to use L Y X but it's good points are so numerous that it's more than worth the pain if you need to deal with large documents, with math formulas or with large bibliographies. When I first reviewed L Y X a year ago I decided it was good enough to use (and have done so regularly since) but still painful. ![]() In other words, it doesn't worry about formating, just content. It focuses on What You See Is What You Mean (WYSIWYM). In fact, I spend most of my time in outline mode in Word. So the whole WYSIWYG generation of word processors left me cold. When I write I want to focus on the content, not the presentation. As someone who writes for a living I have used a whole slew of word processors and generally haven't been all that happy with any of them. ![]()
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