On Friday, December 21, 2007, at 08:25AM, "Adam M. Goldstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Dec 21, 2007, at 10:16 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > >> >> On Dec 21, 2007, at 6:05 AM, James Harrison wrote: >> >>> On Dec 21, 2007, at 1:18 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: >>> >>>> 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? >>> >>> > >Well, one issue about this is that it's pretty jagged along the right >edge. If the text is not going to be justified or at least close to >it, then it is rather hard to read.
Aargh! This was a quick-and-dirty demo of a concept, so nitpicking isn't fair :). In addition, fonts are wrong, title shouldn't be first, citekey and keywords shouldn't be there at all... Here's an idea: look at the references list in a journal paper. How much space does each reference take up? Is that easier to read at a glance than a series of table columns? Is it easier to read than our present formatted view of every bit of information associated with a reference? That's the usage I see for this: displaying each selected item as a citation in a small area. For instance, keywords are only used for searching and grouping, so they shouldn't be displayed there. I acknowledge that this may be completely useless to everyone else, and that's all I'm trying to find out. -- 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
