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

[Douglas Kojetin]

I just found this interesting EndNote-like program:  JabRef

http://jabref.sourceforge.net/

I may switch to this.  I prefer to search PubMed/MedLine though the 
HTML interface (not through EndNote's search function; it's super slow) 
... and there is a nice 'Fetch Medline' sidebar in JabRef that 
downloads the reference information when given the MedLine number.  
Very cool!

Not sure about other databases though (ISI) ... and this program may be 
'shunned' by ye who do not like to use a GUI.  I'll consider switching 
away from TeXShop at some point, but for now it gets the job done 
quickly (important for graduation)!  I too swiched from Word to LaTeX 
because of possibility (and past experience) of formatting issues ...

As far as what I was trying to explain below, I'd like some way of 
linking my reference database to my massive folder of PDF journal 
article files.  Then I'd like to have a way of searching the reference 
list for keywords to quickly access the journal article PDF I was 
hoping to find.  Does that make sense?  JabRef actually has a 'Pdf' 
field and a 'browse' button, so that may do the trick.  After looking 
at Librarian some more, it may fill my needs as well (although it would 
be nice for it to output bibtex format; it doesn't say whether it does 
or not).  The thing I like about Librarian is that it supposedly 
renames PDF files according to the reference.

Doug


On Mar 25, 2004, at 9:55 AM, Ed Hill wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 08:24, 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 don't understand what you're trying to do.  If you're looking for
> database products for indexing and searching references, there are a
> handful of them out there.  I have some very limited experience with
> "procite" (which may no longer be commercially available) and it did a
> reasonably good job of managing and exporting citations to various
> formats (including bibtex).