Re: [Refdb-users] jedit and refdb?

[Phillip L. <p....@ru...>]

>>>>> "Markus" == Markus Hoenicka <mar...@mh...> writes:

  Markus> while we're at it, we shouldn't forget Emacs which can be
  Markus> turned into a frontend to just about anything with a few
  Markus> lines of Lisp code. I'd appreciate if there was some
  Markus> friendly competition between the jEdit and the Emacs camps
  Markus> over getting the first functional frontend out the door...

This will be the point at which refdb comes really useful for me. 
I looked at doing something similar a while back, (a front end to
medline!), but sadly the lovely reference display and choose code in
reftex would require quite a lot of work to reuse as widgets for a
different (non .bib) backend. 

Still as a quick solution, using W3 and refdb's web front end, should
be reasonably usable. 

I think that all of this will get more likely when refdb is a little
easier to install and use. I think the recent addition of sqlite is a
good thing, as it will prevent many of the MySQL related difficulties
from happening. 

Cheers

Phil