Martijn Brouwer wrote:
On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 12:30 +0100, Simon Bock wrote:Martijn Brouwer wrote:On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 10:09 +0100, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:I was asked by a colleague how to handle a MedLine search in order to insert selected references into pybliographer before piping them into lyx.
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It is not clear to me want you want to achieve. Note that searching does not change your database. I just shows only the entries that match your search criteria.
Maybe I just do not understand what happens. Here is what I do; maybe this is just the way to do it?
1) I have my database opened and displayed in a pybliographic window.
2) I use the button "Medline search", and perform a search for e.g. some author name list.
3) The pybliographic window displays only the search results.
I don't know whether my database has been closed or what.
4) I copy the good results to the clipboard.
5) I re-open my database file and paste the clipboard into it.
Is this the way to do it?
What I expected was a behaviour with my database and the search results being open, allowing to drag results directly to the database, or at least not the re-opening after each search.
That is what I use, but I did not manage to have multiple windows / reference databases in it.
What I know from the M$ world is one window to do your searches in, one window with your reference database, and you drag the relevant article out of the search results into your database.
Can this be achieved with pybliographic?
You want to store your search results in a separate database file? As far as I know it is not possible. Why would you like this? If you want
No. I want to be able to integrate selected search results into my database and then forget about the reast of the search results.
Storing them in a separate database seems to be the easy thing to me, just hit the "save" button...
to make a database file with all citations used in some article you can use the "pybcompact" script included in the package.
Thank you, this script can be useful. Best Regards Simon
