On Dec 20, 2007, at 12:52 PM, James Harrison wrote: > On Dec 20, 2007, at 3:10 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: >> >> The current master-detail view is really handy, so it's hard to >> replace that with the file view; I mainly use the table columns for >> sorting, but prefer the lower pane for easy readability. Another >> option I've thought about is a single column of tall table cells on >> the right showing details, with the lower pane reserved for abstract/ >> annote/pdf/files/webgroup. See attached (from copying a couple refs >> into OmniOutliner). The problem is that such a view would still >> have to be pretty wide to be readable. > > I generally agree. My beef with the current wide detail view is that I > find abstracts harder to read with long lines and relatively small > type sizes.
Yeah, same here. There's also a lot of info I don't care about (date- added & date-modified, citekey). I use it because it is (or was) faster than templating, and parses TeX font commands. > Plus I end up with a contest between the number of > references I can show in the list and the vertical height of the > detail view beneath the list. A columnar view with shorter lines (like > a newspaper) is just easier for me to scan through and if it's on the > side it's independent of the number of articles visible in the list. Isn't 60-70 characters per line the optimum value for minimal eye strain? There's a reason for LaTeX's crazy narrow \textwidth. Anyway, I hacked together a sample this evening and posted a screenshot here: http://homepage.mac.com/amaxwell/.cv/amaxwell/Sites/.Public/detail_table.jpg-zip.zip and a partly working demo here: http://homepage.mac.com/amaxwell/.Public/BibDesk.app.zip The content of the table on the right would be determined by a template. Right now it's just a subset of the current detail view, and it uses the new Leopard gradient because I was curious about it. Anyone think this is worth pursuing? -- adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
