Hi Matthias, thanks for the work. Something for this last suggestion.
A idea that could improve the 'Insert citation' dialog a lot, would be to add a search box. This way, you could open the 'Insert citation' dialog, type for instance 'telomerase', then only the correct citation would be available in the list. I think this should be quite easy to implement if the search is done in the database and not in the current citations of the document. I would rank it at 2-3 for implementation and 4-5 for useful. I think that removing the parenthesis between citations is a much harder work that 2. I would rank it 4. On another hand updating changes in the doc when the database is changed is a much easier task than 4. I would rank it 1-2. Actually, Bibus is doing this quite easily. The idea is simply that you have to look to all the references in the doc (a simple api call), then for each ref you get the identifier (very easy), then you look in the database for this identifier (quite easy), then you reinsert the citation according to the values in the database (a simple call). This must be however an option and must be only started by the author to avoid overwriting modifications done in the text. We could add an option when you right click in the Bibliographic index stating something like "update references from db". Something that could improve the actual support with not so much work would be the possibility to associate a macro (in Basic or any scripting language) to each field. When you insert a citation, each field would be first send to the macro before applying style etc... This would allow the formatting of the field. For instance, Author list in the database is of the form "Author1, firstname1;Author2, firstname2; Author3, firstname3". The macro could reformat it to "AUTHOR1, firstname1, AUTHOR2, firstname2 and AUTHOR3, firstname3 for instance. I would rank it at 4. It could be much easier depending on the code: We must add a PropertyValue() that would contains the macroname for each field (there is already a list of PropertyValue associated with each field and we just need to add one to the current list) and add a hook when the citation is inserted in order to send it through the macro. We could then define a series of "classical" macro for reformatting authors and editors and pages (I thing that these styles are the one that really need to be reformatted before insertion). Pierre Le mercredi 09 mars 2005 � 00:25 +0100, Matthias Basler a �crit : > Hi bibliographers > > Since no further feedback came in, I just revied the latest issues I could > find, > added them and then put the complete document (v1.03) in our "files" section > under "User requirements" (as .sxw). > > Have a look at it under > http://bibliographic.openoffice.org/files/documents/124/2502/OOo_bibliographic_issues_review_v1.03.sxw > > Matthias Basler > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This mail was sent through http://webmail.uni-jena.de > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Pierre Martineau mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bibus home: http://bibus-biblio.sourceforge.net/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
