Hi developers, I have worked out a way to get references inlined into exported .tex documents, based on suggestions from Richard Heck. It would be nice to build this feature into LyX and I am interested in contributing this change. Please help me with a few questions:
1. Is this change acceptable? 2. This feature requires the IncludeBib.py script submitted by another user/developer in the issue-log on trac: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/4624 Can the IncludeBib.py script be bundled with the lyx distribution now? I didn't see the author permitting the use of this script under GPL (maybe I missed it) but if this is the case, I could write a script and submit that under GPL. Are there any other adoption problems? 3. What files will have I have to modify to get the menu item to show in the File->Export submenu? I plan to give this feature the name "LaTeX (plain/bibinc)", the latter being short for "bibliography included" (also appears in the IncludeBib.py script). 4. I can update the documentation in the user's guide and Additional Features manuals. How do I send this patch? Just send the result of "svn diff" on these .lyx files? 5. Will send the output from "svn diff" at the root of source tree efficiently capture changes to files at all these diverse locations in a safe and efficient way or need I send a tarball of patches for individual files? 6. Is there something else that needs to be done that I might have missed in the above TODO list? Note: inlined refs are required by quite a few journals, esp. those that impose page limits. I think this is because they run latex on the submissions at the time of submission. Thanks, Manoj
