On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Allan Rae wrote:
> In this case I'd prefer to have a marker or a label in the combox
> separating the different databases. Sorting them would obviously disrupt
> the order. I suppose it's a matter of how we each use the combox. That
> is, do we remember the keys we need or do we look them up in a
> bib-browser and then find them in the combox. If the latter is the case
> then we'd be much better off with a bib-browser that could insert the
> citation using the LyXServer.
Yes, the combox can't be used in place of a bibtex browser.
> Alejandro had a patch for barracuda to do this (it might even be in the
> contrib directory).
It should be somewhere, I remember I posted it years ago. I'll look for
it but it's not hard to add this support to barracuda, using the lyxserver
examples as a reference.
> Alejandro does your gbib handle this also?
Yes, in one sense: It can send commands to lyx but can't hear the answer.
In practice, that's not very important.
> We're currently keeping 1.0 STL-free. I'd prefer to leave it unsorted
> since the user is likely to have sorted their .bib file (but I said that
> last time too).
Yes, if you use several huge databases, better use an external bibtex
browser. OK, I'll look for my patch and send it to Roland as soon as
possible.
Alejandro
