[Pybliographer-general] Re: Welcome to the "Pybliographer-general" mailing list (Digest mode)

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  Just downloaded and compiled pybliographer 1.0.7 (after some minor
hassles), fixed the "Search" problem by getting rid of my old gnome-python
files, and I'm generally quite happy.

Questions/feature requests:

1.  I'd be interested in a translator from ISI/Web of Science to
pybliographer/BibTeX format.  (One of the nice things about sixpack, which
has other problems like lack of support/difficulty compiling, is that it
was built around Dana Christensen's (?) "bp" perl module, which was a
general purpose bibliographic translator.  I wrote/polished up an ISI/BIDS
translator for that package.)   I can always use bp to pre-translate, but
having it all in one package would be nice ...  If I get enough time I
might try to figure out how to do it, but I don't speak Python.

2.  I'm a biologist, so one of the things that comes up frequently in my
bibliography are italicized Latin binomials (_Homo sapiens_, _Tsuga
canadensis_, etc.).  Right now pybliograph* throws these away with a "warning: unable to
convert `\em'" (or some such).  This is cosmetic but it would be
interesting to see what kind of a system pybliographic might use for
marking this kind of information ...

  thanks for working on pybliographic  -- it seems as though it's crossed
the threshold where it is usable and ready to take off.

  (I must admit that it was a bit of a hassle to find all the bits and
pieces I needed to install it; perhaps the hardest part was figuring out
that gnome-python is a superset of pygtk, since there's no really direct
link to it from the referenced page.  I eventually found it via the link
on

http://www.daa.com.au/~james/gnome/

to

ftp.gnome.org:/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/gnome-python

...
 I also had to do a little bit of shuffling since default installs put
things in "/usr/local/..." while all of the default (RH 6.1)-installed
stuff was in "/usr/...", ahead of the new installations.)



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