Hi Titus and thx so much for the answers! i will in the future use the github page to make requests.
"The number of matches will be displayed in the mode line. " i see that now thx! :) the problem was(is) that its colored black on my black modline BG which makes it invisible ;-) i assume thats an helm config i need to change "If you don’t want to type these search expressions, you could create a command that invokes helm-bibtex with a default search expression and that command could be bound to a keyboard shortcut." that would be prefect for me and a solution to my issue. would you mind giving an example of such a code chunk. unfortunately i dont know elisp though as john recommended i will do my best this summer when the semester ends to try and pick it up :) i will definitely use your tag system as you recommended, sounds perfect for me thanks again for your kind help and the amazing app ;-) best Z On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 11:02 PM, Titus von der Malsburg <malsb...@posteo.de > wrote: > > On 2015-06-17 Wed 11:08, Xebar Saram wrote: > > Hi Titus > > > > I have been exploring helm-bibtex a bit today and have some questions. > btw > > is this the preferred way to make requests/ask questions or is > > github preferred? > > Helm-bibtex is not part of org (although it tries to work well with > org). So I’m not sure whether this list is the best place for > discussing it. For now the issue tracker on Github might be a better > option: > > https://github.com/tmalsburg/helm-bibtex/issues > > > in any case i was wondering a few things: > > > > 1. is it possible to have custom sorting? i want all views to sort by > > Author, year, month > > I prefer to see the entries in the (inverse) order in which they appear > in the BibTeX file. This way, recent additions show up at the > top. However, I agree that sorting would be useful (see issues #5 and > #21); it just doesn’t have high priority for me. Pull requests welcome. > > > 2. i would really like a way to have stored smart groups (like the jabref > > dynamic groups if your aware of that). that is for example create a group > > that auto selects all publications i have (by my first/last name) and > shows > > the count (in numbers) of these publications. > > I’m not familiar with smart groups but it seems that all helm-bibtex is > doing is giving you very flexible smart groups defined by your search > expressions. For example, if you want a list of your publications, you > can simple enter your name. And if you want a list of your articles, > you can enter your name + “article”. If you want all your articles from > 2010, enter your name + “articles 2010”. And so on. The number of > matches will be displayed in the mode line. If you don’t want to type > these search expressions, you could create a command that invokes > helm-bibtex with a default search expression and that command could be > bound to a keyboard shortcut. > > > Another example is a group to keep track of all the papers im working on > or > > invloved with by matching keyword author and prep/*other key word > > I use two BibTeX fields to tag entries: “keywords” for keywords > describing the content of the paper (as usual) and “tags” for meta > data. Values that I use in tags are “own”, “manuscript”, “poster”, > “talk”, … So if I want a list of all articles in progress, I search for > “own manuscript”. Since the tags field is non-standard, it has to be > added to `helm-bibtex-additional-search-fields`. > > Another solution would be to use the pubstate field and to search for > your name and “forthcoming” (add pubstate to > helm-bibtex-additional-search-fields for this to work). > > > 3.is it possible to ass an option to auto generate a bibkey for a > selected > > citation based on user criteria such as author(date)short-title? > > Maintaining the content of the BibTeX file not really in the scope of > helm-bibtex (I prefer to write my BibTeX entries by hand). Perhaps > org-ref or ebib can help here? Once you have a function that generates > a new key and inserts it in the BibTeX file, you can easily add it to > the list of actions in helm-bibtex. > > Hope that helps. > > Titus > > > thx so much in advance, you and john have given me confidence to finally > > dive into the whole latex/bibteX world > > > > best > > > > Z > >
