With the release of Zotero I guess JabRef has gotten some serious competition. Plugins for citing with MS Word and Open Office (but only support for BibTex indirectly though; through exporting), and so on...
Some good things I noticed about Zotero:
- No matter if an entry is marked as having Editors or Authors, it will be shown in the same column. Saves place on the screen and makes a lot of sense.
- When searching for keywords, the matching keywords will be shown as well and not only the matching entries. This is useful in many ways. One of them being to notice errors in your assignment of keywords.
However, Zotero is still quite bad att importing bibtex files created with jabref in a sensible way, and it also lacks the promised jabref-feature of resolving fields in entries of the "Inbook" kind, which are linked to an entry for the book itself. (There are also other shortcomings.)
It will be interesting to see the development of jabref as well as zotero from now on I think. Ultimately I'd like to see them work well together (import/export), since one is more aimed at LaTeX and the other got good support for Office and its clones.
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//FTC
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Yes, you have to remove some stuff that jabref inserts in the beginning and end of the bibtex file in order for Zotero to handle the import correctly. (But it still fails to do some things, like capturing the file links properly.)
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I just installed the plug-in. It seems to have all the basic features that are necessary and has a neat GUI by the way. However, I am not so sure if I would want to rely on a browser plug-in. What if development was discontinued at one point and the actual plug-in would be no longer compatible with later versions of firefox? In addition, import of my jabref bibtext database failed :-(
However, I very much like the word processor integration feature. I had a closer look at the openoffice extension which is written in StarBasic. It could be a superb template for integrating JabRef into OpenOffice. Maybe that is interesting to you, Morton...
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Hello!
With the release of Zotero I guess JabRef has gotten some serious competition. Plugins for citing with MS Word and Open Office (but only support for BibTex indirectly though; through exporting), and so on...
Some good things I noticed about Zotero:
- No matter if an entry is marked as having Editors or Authors, it will be shown in the same column. Saves place on the screen and makes a lot of sense.
- When searching for keywords, the matching keywords will be shown as well and not only the matching entries. This is useful in many ways. One of them being to notice errors in your assignment of keywords.
However, Zotero is still quite bad att importing bibtex files created with jabref in a sensible way, and it also lacks the promised jabref-feature of resolving fields in entries of the "Inbook" kind, which are linked to an entry for the book itself. (There are also other shortcomings.)
It will be interesting to see the development of jabref as well as zotero from now on I think. Ultimately I'd like to see them work well together (import/export), since one is more aimed at LaTeX and the other got good support for Office and its clones.
Just some cents of blah blah.. Signifying something!
//FTC
Concerning jabref imports into Zotero:
Yes, you have to remove some stuff that jabref inserts in the beginning and end of the bibtex file in order for Zotero to handle the import correctly. (But it still fails to do some things, like capturing the file links properly.)
I just installed the plug-in. It seems to have all the basic features that are necessary and has a neat GUI by the way. However, I am not so sure if I would want to rely on a browser plug-in. What if development was discontinued at one point and the actual plug-in would be no longer compatible with later versions of firefox? In addition, import of my jabref bibtext database failed :-(
However, I very much like the word processor integration feature. I had a closer look at the openoffice extension which is written in StarBasic. It could be a superb template for integrating JabRef into OpenOffice. Maybe that is interesting to you, Morton...