Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgout...@lyx.org> writes:

> 07/05/2014 09:41, Rainer M Krug:
>>> 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.
>
> This seems more complicated for no real reason. You basically have the
> information when hovering. 

Ups - must have missed this - sorry.

> However, having a new menu entry "see
> document" when there is a "pdf" or "postscript" or "url" entry (and
> the ps or pdf file actually exists) would be neat.

Yes - that would be neat - selecting which one could be useful, as they
could contain different versions or documents (article, supplements, ...).

>
> When trying this out, I have a weird situation. I include a Bibtex
> inset, pick bilbiography style "plain"; when I insert a Cite inset,
> the only form that I can pick is one that shows the whole citation
> like "Smith & Wesson (2002) In the Head: How to Get it Right Every
> time, Springer"
>
> How come I cannot have a plain [1]?
>
> JMarc
>

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