Thank you very much for your feedback. I modified the specifications accordingly.
Best, Joeran On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak < and...@pitonyak.org> wrote: > > On 08/14/2013 11:05 AM, Joeran Beel wrote: > > Hello, > > we are planning to develop an open-source add-on for LibreOffice to > manage citations based on BibTeX and the citation style language > http://citationstyles.org/. If someone of you is interested in helping us > with the development (for money, if wanted), please send us an email. We > would also highly appreciate if you could help us promoting our search for > capable developers. For more information read here > http://www.docear.org/2013/08/14/who-wants-to-develop-docear4libreoffice-or-docear4openoffice/ > > Best, > Joeran > > > -- > Joeran Beel > Founder & Researcher > Docear - The Academic Literature Suite > http://docear.org > > Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Docear/137985949605902 > Google+: https://plus.google.com/106965732112113749959/posts > Twitter: https://twitter.com/Docear_org > > > > _______________________________________________ > LibreOffice mailing > listLibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.orghttp://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice > > > I am not volunteering to do this, or claiming to have time to do this, > but, I do have a few comments on some things you might want to clarify or > consider: > > 1. This is to work on all platforms, but, in point 3, it states "with the > Docear dfeault BibTex file being read from the registry and the user having > the option to specify his BibTeX file." I assume that the registry is not > available on all platforms, for example, Linux. It is possible, however, to > store your preferences and/or default values as part of the LO/OO > configuration if you desire. Just something to consider. > > 2. You do not indicate how the original dialogs were implemented. Many > scripting languages are supported by OO, so, depending on the current > implementation language, the existing code may be useful. Off hand, this > does not look too horrid, so it might even be implementable in Basic. That > said, it is not clear to me if this is a non-modal dialog open while the > Write screen is also open, and I don't remember off hand how easy this is > to accomplish - I think you can, but have never done it. > > 3. Point 5a states that it must be possible to insert references into > textfields, footnotes, and the main text body. I am not certain that I > understand this statement, but it does raise some concerns. My first > concern is that I don't think that you can have formatted text in a text > field, but I am not entirely clear as to what is intended here. > > 4. You discuss a windows installer, but, I would assume that you would > want to simply use the existing method to install an extension, or, is it > assumed that this is really a stand-alone program that just happens to be > able to access and manipulate LO / OO documents? This is also possible (if > you were wondering). > > I need to run (wife is calling me to dinner), so I will finish with one > quick comment > > 5. I think I saw that it stated that one extension should work for both LO > and AOO. This is probably possible providing there are no toolbars added > into OO. I do believe that an OO extension for AOO now contains a new > element (or something) when using a toolbar. > > Best of luck, there is a need for this project... or at least i assume so > since I remember some people mentioning something about it in the past. > > > > > -- > Andrew Pitonyak > My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt > Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php > > > _______________________________________________ > LibreOffice mailing list > LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice > > -- Joeran Beel Founder & Researcher Docear - The Academic Literature Suite http://docear.org b...@docear.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Docear/137985949605902 Google+: https://plus.google.com/106965732112113749959/posts Twitter: https://twitter.com/Docear_org
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