Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> writes: > My first guess is that not many others would find this idea useful, > but I figured it's worth an email to see if I'm wrong.
It is. > > I would like to be able to right click on a citation and be able to > click on "open pdf". The filenames of the papers I cite are all stored > with the author field of the BibTeX (followed by the extension > ".pdf"). Thus, I would just need to input the folder location into a > LyX document setting, and the feature would work. Interesting idea - and useful. But I would see it as a two step process: 1) right click - see bibtex entry 2) click on "file" field in the bibtex entry to see the pdf. In the same way, on could open URL to see the paper online. > > I'm guessing this feature might not make sense to be in LyX. I'm > expecting a response of "use JabRef" or another bibliography manager > that does that for me. I think this is not a "managing bibtex files" issue for Jabref et al. and could definitely has its place in LyX. +1 Rainer > > Any thoughts? > > Scott -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug PGP: 0x0F52F982
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