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+category:
+    - computer
+title: Bibliography, equations, structured authoring, and me
+date: 2005-05-02T06:08:00
+---
+
+I wrote about my experience with LyX and the reasons why I am looking
+for an ideal solution to my authoring needs. One strange thing which
+surprises me for all that time (at least since 1998) is that there is
+still so little done in resolving my problems, because it seems to me
+that it should be an itch needed to be scratched by approximately the
+same number of people as users of LaTeX_, so I was surprised why so
+few programmers seems to be interested in this (if I am not mistaken,
+really all exceptions from this rule I listed in the previous message on
+this).
+
+Couple of days ago it came to me what’s going on—I am actually in
+between couple of communities with requirements slightly different from
+mine. I am not a typograph (even though I appreciate beautiful
+typography), so although I certainly appreciate beauty of typesetting
+provided by TeX_ it is not a crucial quality for me. I also appreciate
+its beautiful typsetting of formulas, but I really need to typeset only
+all three equations (and even these are really simple ones) from
+statistical models (as complicated as I am able to comprehend, which
+means they are quite simple :-)). Similarly, I miss what I see as the
+main target of DocBook_. It is really created for computer related
+documents (and documentation) and it is not exactly the best DTD for my
+law & society dissertation. What I really need is powerful citations
+management, but it is done either in rather limited fashion (BibTeX,
+nevertheless it is still the best what is available), is in the
+alpha-stage and support for the actual authoring is missing (Docbook),
+or just a joke (`OpenOffice.org`_).
+
+Actually, what I would really like is some combination of Lyx_ (or
+Amaya_) for simple structure-oriented authoring of slightly extended
+XHTML (with footnotes, generated references, table of contents, and
+bibliographical stuff) with powerful bibliographical management (here I
+am not sure whether there is any model which I could use -- simplicity
+of `Emacs BibTeX-mode`_ but power of MODS_). There is `an interesting
+discussion of this problem`_ available.
+
+Oh well. It seems that I am here alone with these too simple requests.
+
+.. _LaTeX:
+    http://www.latex-project.org
+.. _TeX:
+    http://www.tug.org
+.. _DocBook:
+    http://www.docbook.org
+.. _`OpenOffice.org`:
+    http://bibliographic.openoffice.org
+.. _Lyx:
+    http://www.lyx.org
+.. _Amaya:
+    http://www.w3.org/Amaya
+.. _`Emacs BibTeX-mode`:
+    http://www.ida.ing.tu-bs.de/people/dirk/bibtex/
+.. _MODS:
+    http://www.loc.gov/mods
+.. _`an interesting discussion of this problem`:
+    https://web.archive.org/web/20060328034957/http://www.xmlshoestring.com/xml499/authoringrequirements