Hi Pierre Thanks a lot for your review and ideas! To the details
Zitat von Pierre Martineau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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. Do me the favour and open an issue for this, please (and notice me when you have done). Then I will add it to my list. I fully agree that a search would solve a lot of the problems. And it should not too difficult to realize as well. > I think that removing the parenthesis between citations is a much harder > work that 2. I would rank it 4. I don't know know. But the way it is suggested, I believe it is not difficult. text text [Identifier1][Identifier2][Identifier3] text text becomes text text [Identifier1, Identifier2, Identifier3] text text This doesnt need any advanced logig. the "only" thing is that, wenn rendering references as text, it needs to get checked if exactly before/after a reference is anoter one. > 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). In general, I agree. There might be some sideeffects, however: Just imagine that person A creates the references, then sends it to person B which has a completely different database with this entry not existing or, by chance, with a completely different entry with the same identifier To circumvent this, a dialog could pop up asking: Do you want to replace all occurrences of [Author][Year][Title] with [Author][Year][Title]? Yes, No, Cancel Yes this should work. I will add this as a suggestion to the latest issue of this kind. > 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". Fully agree. > 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... If you say that would pe possible easily, I would consider this a nice idea for a workaround. I like these ideas :-) 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]
