[TriLUG] LaTeX gurus: is it possible to ignore lines on 'include'

[Andrew Perrin]

I've become a conservative (technologically, speaking, not politically
:)), and so don't use a GUI for this. I use GNU emacs to edit LaTeX and
BibTeX files "by hand" with the assistance of AucTeX-mode and flyspell. I
made the switch from Word to LaTeX while working on the first chapter of
my dissertation; I spent, *literally*, an entire day getting a single
figure placed where I wanted it to go on the page, and decided enough was
enough. I was already a unix geek at work, so backed up my home machine,
loaded debian, and was off!

I haven't seen xisi2bib, but I'll check it out - it looks promising. The
least satisfying part of my writing environment is entering bibtex entries
by hand. Not that it's terribly difficult, but automating it would be more
pleasant.

Best,
A

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Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Douglas Kojetin wrote:

> Thanks for all the informative replies.  Does anyone know if bibtex (or
> something similar) could be useful to keep track of not only references
> but PDF files as well?  I have a ton (quantity ton, not weight ton ...
> :) ) of articles I'd like to 'link' to my references, search through,
> then find what PDFs I might want to read.  Any ideas?  I've seen the
> package Librarian on the bioinformatics website, but that's not
> necessarily what I had in mind: a) it's web-based and b) the GUI isn't
> what I was looking for in terms of displaying/updating information.
>
> I mostly use PubMed, and the easiest way for me to do things so far has
> been to search PubMed (it'll do ISI WOS, and many other online
> databases) within EndNote and save as a bibtex file.  But ... I might
> have to play around with non-EndNote software in the near future!
>
> BTW, what do you guys use for LaTeX editors?  I've been pretty
> satisfied with TeXShop, but I'd like to get a feel for what others use.
>
> Thanks,
> Doug
>
>
> On Mar 24, 2004, at 11:04 PM, Ed Hill wrote:
> > I use Makefiles with LaTeX occasionally but the above method is
> > sufficient for most needs.
> >
> > And, like Andrew, I have a few huge bibtex files that I've edited and
> > copied around for some years.  More recently, I've been using "isi2bib"
> > or "xisi2bib":
> >
> >   http://www.chemphys.lu.se/Homepages/h_nienhuys/p/latex/i2b/
> >
> > to convert entries from the ISI Web of Science.  Also, take a look at
> > bibtexml
> >
> >   http://bibtexml.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > which can be used, along with free Java XSLT packages (eg. xerces &
> > xalan) to produce reasonably-good-quality HTML markup from your ISI
> > and/or bibtex collections.
>
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