From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Anyone knows how to do dvd/book collection management in Emacs? Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:32:45 +1000 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <87tzvxoo2a.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175589557 5022 80.91.229.12 (3 Apr 2007 08:39:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 08:39:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 03 10:39:14 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HYeXp-0001ZX-He for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:39:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HYeaw-000425-Et for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:42:26 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!sn-xt-sjc-03!sn-xt-sjc-08!sn-post-sjc-02!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:IguJPHbBSP9sKLIBEtodalqL5y8= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 28 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:146788 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:42392 Archived-At: Joost Kremers 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 -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au