On Thursday 21 June 2001 15:19, Dekel Tsur wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 02:58:17PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote:
> > On Thursday 21 June 2001 12:44, Dekel Tsur wrote:
> > > To keep you occupied...
> > >
> > > Citation dialog:
> > >
> > > - In the info area, the year appear after the authors and not at the
end.
> >
> > Not a bug. Just a preference.
>
> I thought that the idea was to make the info window look like the entry in
> the generated bibliography, so it would make sense to put the year at the
end.
> BTW, the volume/number (and other) information do not appear.
>
> > > - strings defined by @string are not expanded
> >
> > I've been doing some work on this. The new BibTeX parser is pretty good.
>
> Maybe you should use the parser from gbib (or other program).
I've been edging this way myself. Always instructive writing your own first
though (if not too hard). You get a feel for the problems that need to be
overcome. Splitting a bibtex entry into it's individual components is easy
once you work out how to deal with \{ (is it a special character or one of a
pair of \{ ... }), but parsing the LaTeX is harder if you don't know all the
\xyz commands!
When I get back, I'll grab the gbib source.
Angus
