On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 04:35:15PM +0800, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:23 PM, rgheck<rgh...@bobjweil.com> wrote:
> > On 08/04/2009 12:52 PM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> >>
> >> I was thinking: if the LyX citation dialog:
> >> 1) had a link to
> >> - the file specified in the file={:<filename>} bibtex entry
> >> - the url specified in the url={<url>} (or maybe doi) entry
> >> - raw bibtex; and
> >> 2) defaulted to displaying the first selected citation rather than the
>
> > Can you explain a bit more what it is you want?
>
> 1) Jabref has a feature that if the bibtex entry has a
> file={:<filename>} entry, there is a button that essentially runs
> xdg-open <filename>
> It has a similar feature for urls (but there is no : before the url)
>
> It can also be convenient to be able to see the full raw BibTeX of an entry.
>
> It would be convenient if if could open these links with a single
> click rather than having to pop over to the Jabref window and search
> for the citation.
>
> 2) When click on reference and the Citation Dialog box appears, I can
> view the reference by clicking on the "selected reference" box on the
> top right. It seems that clicking on the "selected reference" box
> should be unnecessary.
>
> Also I was thinking that the Insert: Citation Dialog could suggest
> that the user add Lists/TOC->BibTeX database as it is not clear to a
> new user that this is what is required to have citations.
>
> Hypothetically, if someone was to write a "new bibtex entry" dialog
> for LyX in python: What toolkit should be used?
Qt/C++.
> I know LyX already depends on Qt but I don't know if LyX depends on
> PyQt.
It does not depend on PyQt yet, and I am not sure a single new dialog
warrants introducing such dependency.
On the other hand, prototyping a dialog in PyQt and finding someone to
"translate" it to C++ should be pretty straight-forward.
Andre'
