Working on editing bibliographies in LyX, I've arrived at this
situation: it's convenient to attach to each bibliographic record a
yellow note containing a (cross-reference) label e.g. a bib record
beginning (say) @book{knuth, would have a yellow note containing the
label book-knuth. For a large already existing bibliography, it's a
substantial labour attaching such notes and labels to each entry and
I've created a Python converter that does the job: it exports the LyX
file containing the original bibliography to another LyX file, but this
time with yellow notes containing labels. It means defining another LyX
file format which I've called LyX (bib yl). Obviously LyX is the natural
viewer for this file format. Now when I click on the View Other Formats
button and select LyX (bib yl), in due course a second instance of LyX
appears displaying the bibliography but this time with yellow notes and
labels attached to the records. (The sorted labels provide a way of
searching for duplicate records.)
But if I edit and change the original bibliography and click on the
Update Other Formats button and select LyX (bib yl), although the status
line tells me that a successful export has been made, the second LyX
instance doesn't update. It's not a significant problem because I've
assigned the L-FUN buffer-reload to a shortcut key combination, and
simply pressing that key combination in the viewer-LyX updates the
display, but it would be nice if, when LyX is used as a *viewer*,
buffer-reload were automatically invoked. Overwriting the existing file
displayed is not a concern in this case -- in fact it's exactly what one
wants.
Andrew
