Graham Smith

Questions on Biblios 1/6/2007

Ken, I suspect the best approach depends on what you want to see at the end. I would be tempted to use Jabref to keep the formal references and then some sort of outline/time to keep track of the his...

Questions on Biblios 1/6/2007

Ken, I hope you aren't looking for a simple answer to this, as best practice depends on the referencing style, journal, professional society, publisher etc. All of which are different. Some hints on...

Lyx 1/6/2007

Derek, Just to add to the all in one idea of Emacs, I have just found a firefox extension that gives Firefox the same look and key strokes as Emacs. Its still Firefox, but it does extend the value o...

Lyx 1/6/2007

Derek >Are you starting a bibliographic database from scratch or can one import existing >bibliographies into Jabref? Jabref imports most things, so I exported my biblioscape database as somethin...

Lyx 1/6/2007

Derek >I look forward to >hearing more about Emacs. Have you looked at the Vim text editor? There are versions >for Windows, see: http://www.vim.org/about.php I will stick with Emacs because it a...

Lyx 1/5/2007

Derek, >imagination but I seem to come across fewer image PDF files (outside JStor) than I used It is Jstor files that I have the problem with, as I have a local library of downloaded PDFs that I s...

DTSearch and Archivarius again 1/4/2007

Ike >My New Year's resolution is to stick with software which works for me. An excellent approach, which I hope you stick with. I wish I could !! >thanks for the tip to Woody's Search engine guid...

Lyx 1/4/2007

Derek > I'm even considering going back to converting pdf files >to text. It's something we both used to do I think. Yes, I did but this was mainly to do with OCRing the image based files so Zoot ...

DTSearch and Archivarius again 1/3/2007

Jack >I assume you've considered X1. Yes, thanks Before my last upgrade of DTSearch, I looked at all the main contenders, including X1, and including installing the more likely candidates. In the...

DTSearch and Archivarius again 1/3/2007

Ike I>Glad you've found a good solution. I mentioned this thread to a friend and she >recommended the free Copernic Desktop Search... I'll report back. Whenever, I read comparative reviews of th...

Lyx 1/3/2007

Derek >> What are you using for the drafting? >EditPad Lite. That was the one that looked the most promising during my search, but I have actually been using (or trying to use) Emacs the last coup...

Foxit PDF reader 1/2/2007

I wrote: >If you want a free very fast and small (2mb) PDF reader, have a look at Foxit. It seems to be the season for me changing my mind about things :-( I have just installed Acrobat reader 8, a...

askSam - or not...? 1/2/2007

Derek, >Thanks for all the feedback. I resisted - this time... Well done ;-) Graham

Lyx 1/2/2007

Derek >> And I shall stop with that example for I can go on for pages describing my >Word experiences, and it just gets me annoyed. > >A pretty fair reflection of my feelings. And many others I kn...

DTSearch and Archivarius again 1/1/2007

Just in case this gets lost at the end of the previous thread, I have started a new one. Having had the advantages of DTSearch pointed out to me after my last post. I have re-installed DTSearch and...

Lyx 1/1/2007

Tom >As I said, there must be half a dozen ways at least to get around it. It was a lusy >excuse but there comes a time when you don't fight city hall. yes, I agree. Graham

Lyx 12/31/2006

Tom, >I must be the only person left in the world who likes Word. :) I'm sure you aren't but most people I know, either hate it or tolerate it. I certainly don't hate it with a vengeance the way so...

Lyx 12/31/2006

Tom >I finally broke down and went MS after being asked one too many >times to convert a document to Word for publicaiton. A folllow up to this. I see that some of the journals I have kicking ar...

FastStone Capture - screen capture software 12/31/2006

Ike >Thanks for this, Graham. > >FastStone is amazing. Amazing that its apps are free. Glad you found it useful, they are very good apps. Graham

Good bye DTSearch, Hello Archvarius 12/30/2006

Ike, >Further DT Search functions I wouldn't want to work without: Very useful, I just haven't made use of any of these things. Maybe I should be re-installing DTSearch !! I still think Archivariu...

Lyx 12/30/2006

Cassius : >Here are some problems and suggestions that most people in this forum... The most important lesson is to do everything with styles. We solved most of our problems by me creating templates...

Lyx 12/30/2006

Tom >In the end, I found it easier to just use LaTeX in Emacs, That is interesting as until finding Lyx I had always been put off Latex by the work it seemed to entail. >Many of those documents ...

Good bye DTSearch, Hello Archvarius 12/30/2006

Ike >I thought I'd stick up for DT Search. Some excellent points, and if I had more disk space I would probably keep both installed. I have never made that sophisticated use of DTSearch, just used i...

Lyx 12/29/2006

While I am on a roll here, I have just installed Lyx after the discussion on text programs in the earlier thread. Installation on Windows is a little bit of a chore as it needs to download several ad...

FastStone Capture - screen capture software 12/29/2006

And another one Free and only a 1.2mb download from http://faststone.org/ Uses 5000k of memory which is a lot less than Techsmith SnagIt, which like DTSearch I have used for years and updated all t...

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