Re: Anyone knows how to do dvd/book collection management in Emacs?

[Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>]

Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com> writes:

> CHENG Gao wrote:
>> Thanks for your info. I browsed ebib manual and thought it can only
>>  operate on a pre-created bib file. Glad to know it can create the file.
>
> mmm... i admit, it's burried a bit in the manual. the very last paragraph
> in section 2.1 "Getting Started" mentions it.
>
> anyway, ebib is meant to be used with bibtex files, and bibtex is meant to
> be used with latex, not as a stand-alone bibliography database engine. so
> if you just want to create a database of your books and dvds, and have no
> intention of using it with latex, ebib is probably not the best tool for
> the job.
>

That is quite true. However, one advantage may be that you can then easily use
one of the LaTeX packages for creating/printing covers for cd/dvd cases, so it
you have dvds you have burnt yourself, you can easily generate good covers for
them. 

If the OP has no such plan to do this, there are probably better slutions than
ebib, such as emacs forms, emacs db etc.

Tim

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