Re: [docbook-apps] Moving towards docbook

[Markus Hoenicka <markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de>]

Hi,

Quoting Bram Vogelaar <mylists@teambla.com>:

> 6) As biologist we are attached to the hip with endnote (or reference
> manager), could someone explain how they incorporated and or replaced
> their endnote reference libraries to work with  their docbook workflow.
> especially  the conversion from endnote to docbook,
> cite-while-you-write , and the auto numbering and formating that is
> done by endnote
>

As a fellow biologist I've been working on this problem for a couple  
of years. The result is RefDB (http://refdb.sourceforge.net), a  
reference manager and bibliography tool for markup languages. You can  
export your Endnote or RefMan databases to RIS and import that  
straight into RefDB. Cite-while-you-write is implemented in two editor  
extensions (Emacs and Vim), including reverse lookup and  
author/title/keyword searches from marked sections. You can create  
formatted citations and bibliographies from your DocBook sources and  
the reference database according to the target style. RefDB supports  
all flavours of DocBook (SGML, XML versions 4 and 5 including  
namespaces). Document transformation can be included into  
(semi-)automatic toolchains by means of Makefiles and shell scripts.  
RefDB ships one such solution which allows you to run e.g. "make pdf"  
to obtain a PDF version of your document, but it should be simple  
enough to integrate parts or all of this into your own custom toolchain.

regards,
Markus

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