Re: Other UI Issues

On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Peter Schulte-Stracke wrote:

> (i) What do you get from Mozilla? Downloaded .bib files, or do  
> you extract something from the web? That interests me as I have  
> still no idea how difficult is would be to interface to a  
> browser, something which I find quite compelling an idea.

sciencedirect.com (and possibly other web-sites) have a "export
citation" feature, which gives you a .ris file. In mozilla I've set .ris
files to always be opened with a modified version of "ris2bib.pl" (which I
found on the internet somewhere (originally by Dana Jacobsen) that appends
a new bibtex entry to the end of my default .bib file.

The really clever bit though, is that by default pdf files I download from
sciencedirect.com get called "science.pdf". The script therefore looks for
the most recently created science.pdf in either my homedir or one of the
folders I keep my downloaded papers in and a) renames it in a
"author-year_title_of_paper.pdf" format, b) inserts a "pdf =
{author-year_title_of_paper.pdf}," in the bibtex file, and c) picks a
different .bib file for certain folders

Rob




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