karron@MCIRPS2.MED.NYU.EDU (07/28/90)
Does anyone have experience with the various bib database systems out there for unix, particularly, those that I can run on my IRIS workstation ? What system do you use and do you like it ? What would you like to see. What about the Documentors Workshop stuff from sgi ? Is is any good for academic bibs ? Freeware ? Commercial systems ? Has anyone tried or is using ocr scanning to input abstracts and text whith an eye to extracting the bib info ? Are there any systems for this. Is there any ocr support that will run on an iris ? How does tex compare with postscript for paper writing ? How is the sgi TeX system ? Dan. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | karron@nyu.edu Dan Karron | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New York University Medical Center | | 560 First Avenue \ \ Pager <1> (212) 397 9330 | | New York, New York 10016 \**\ <2> 10896 <3> <your-number-here> | | (212) 340 5210 \**\__________________________________________ | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV ("Brent L. Bates AAD/TAB MS361 x42854") (07/30/90)
I don't know about using any bibliography software, but we use TeX.
I wouldn't try to write a paper directly in PostScript. In my branch
we use TeX for three main reasons. One, it is free and works on
almost any machine. Two, our Techinical Editting section here at NASA-
Langley uses it. This helps speed things up when you need to get a paper
published. Three, it is very powerful and you can run it from any dumb
terminal. The files are simple text files that can be easily transfered
from machine to machine. With a dvi to ps filter we can us our PostScript
laser printers. We don't use LaTeX, because it has a tendency to do things
its own way and doesn't like to let you do it the right way.
You could also use things like troff and Transcript too.
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Brent L. Bates
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Hampton, Virginia 23665-5225
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E-mail: blbates@aero4.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero2.larc.nasa.gov