Re: [pyblio] PDF link
vona-DPNOqEs/[email protected]
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> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 11:48:51 -0800 > From: paulo <[email protected]> > To: Pybliographer-general-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org ... > thing that I really miss in Pybliographic: the possibility to link the > references to a PDF file. It's something that I used a lot in Sixpack > and JabRef. I like to be able to click over the reference and open the > file in an external viewer. > > I saw in the mailing list that someone added this caractheristic in a > personal version. I tried to install that version, but I couldn't. Hi, that was me. My name is Marty Vona. Sorry to hear that you couldn't install. What was the error message? What operating system are you using? My code will probably only fully work on Linux (and maybe other unices) right now. If you are on Linux, Installation should be the same as for the normal pybliographer distribution. You will need to have GNU recode and python-bibtex already properly installed. As was already mentioned, the URL field in pybliographer currently does have the capability to hold a reference to the document. If that works for you, cool. However, I humbly give my opinion that this is not the best implementation. In general, it is entirely possible to want a bib entry whose URL field points somewhere entirely different from the location of the associated document. My code also adds a handy feature: an item is added to the right-click menu for bib entries in the pybliographic list display which opens the associated PDF (or ps,txt,html, etc) document in an external viewer. Also, just for the record, I am not trying to fork pybliographer or anything. I have no desire to do that, nor do I have any time to support it. I just did some hacking on it and figured that somebody else might find it useful, or that the pybliographer maintaners might want to incorporate some of it in the main distribution. Marty ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click