have anyone contacted the author of bibtool. i think i saw his homepage at some point - he seems to be quite a geeky fellow doing nothing but latex/bibtex by the look of his publications/talks - perhaps he could be moved to adapt the api to work with stdin instead of some file?
and if not - well, lyx does work with quite a lot of temporary files already? why not one more? martin On 25/01/06, Georg Baum < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 25. Januar 2006 21:41 schrieb Martin A. Hansen: > > the question is if the bibtex parser should be "smart"? > > No, an external parser written by BibTeX experts would be preferable IMO. > > > actually, iirc bibtool provides a nice API - why doesnt lyx use the > bibtool > > libs and API? > > The API is not nice (it insists on reading from a file, for example), but > it can be used. A proof of concept patch is in > http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1826 > > > Georg > >
