Hello, I am using LyX with Nicola Talbot's LaTeX package glossaries. Therefore I need to maintain several tex-files with databases for the data in each glossary. I asked Nicola Talbot for a best practice to do so. As explained in the forwarded discussion I am hoping for a database application that is comparable to JabRef. I am wondering if anybody would like to put an extension for LyX on a TODO list which would allow for many LyX features like the math editor to be used when maintaining glossaries' database files. I imagine the great use of such an extension if it was implemented in a general way that would additionally allow to maintain bib-files and then include the feature to automatically compose bib-entries from an ISBN as provided by the website http://manas.tungare.name/software/isbn-to-bibtex/
Thanks and Regards! Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Thomas Schwabhäuser, Melittastrasse 9, 70597 Stutttgart Tel. + 49 (0) 711 - 76 22 41, Cel. + 49 (0) 171 - 491 50 96 schwa...@googlemail.com http://www.cip.mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de/~schwabts/ Begin forwarded message: > From: Dr Nicola L C Talbot <nicola.tal...@dickimaw-books.com> > Subject: Re: DB application for glossaries? > Date: 28 Feb 2014 11:47:24 GMT+1 > To: Thomas Schwabhäuser <schwa...@googlemail.com> > > Hi, > > I've never used LyX, so I wouldn't know how to write a plugin for it, but a > general purpose application to go with glossaries would be interesting. These > days I write all my gui applications in Java to provide platform > independence, although I know it's not the most efficient language. Thank you > for your feedback. > > Best regards > Nicola Talbot > > On 22/02/14 21:28, Thomas Schwabhäuser wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am happy that I was able to catch your interest. In former years I had >> undertaken much more programming projects. However, this has changed and I >> tend to be working on more abstract levels now. So I would not only miss the >> time to write the proposed DB application but also practice. Nonetheless I >> cannot help thinking about desirable applications or best-practices. The >> following ideas got somewhat technical, again. I hope they do not become too >> boring for you since I don't want to waste your time. >> >> However, I am not even sure if it might make more sense to send them to the >> LyX development team <lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org>. >> >> For writing LaTeX I prefer to use LyX nowadays which I almost frowned upon >> during my programming years. As indicated before I'm using JabRef to >> maintain my .bib-files which I believe to be written in Java. Clearly, a big >> advantage of this is portability but sometimes it is a bit clumsy to switch >> between LyX and JabRef when unknown references need to be added. My dream >> would have been to realise JabRef as a LyX plugin which I believe to be >> rather naive since I have no idea whatsoever if LyX allows for plugins, at >> all. In any case, I often regret that JabRef does not include the service >> provided by the website >> http://manas.tungare.name/software/isbn-to-bibtex/ >> which does what it says. But maybe it would be TOO convenient just having to >> enter an ISBN at some place into LyX to let it be added to the >> bibliographical database. >> >> Likewise, if there was a LyX plugin for database files for the glossaries >> package it would be possible to make use of the LyX dialogues for >> mathematical typesetting and possibly for other features, too. I modified >> the class UCThesis to expect the documents' subdirectories Appendices, >> Bibliography, Chapter1-N, and Lead, the latter containing the include files >> glossaries_create.tex, glossaries_print.tex, and symbols.tex among others. >> Then symbols.tex only needs to include all the files ChapterX/symbols.tex >> which I could get rid of if there was an effective way to maintain a large >> symbols file defining the entries for all glossaries. >> >> Eventually I offer my apologies since I hardly talked about your glossaries >> package. It seems my thoughts are inevitably attracted by pursuing the LyX >> development. >> >> Thanks and Regards! >> >> Thomas Schwabhäuser, >> >> >> On 22 Feb 2014, at 13:08, Dr Nicola L C Talbot >> <nicola.tal...@dickimaw-books.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm sorry for the delay in replying, I've been away. I'm not aware of any >>> application for glossaries that's analogous to jabref. The only thing I can >>> think of is the datagidx plugin for datatooltk >>> (http://ctan.org/pkg/datatooltk) but that's for use with datagidx.sty >>> rather than glossaries.sty. >>> >>> It's an interesting idea, but unfortunately I'm too busy to write one now, >>> but if I have time later on this year I might look into it. >>> >>> Best regards >>> Nicola Talbot >>> >>> On 19/02/14 18:02, schwa...@googlemail.com wrote: >>>> Dear Dr. Talbot -- >>>> >>>> I would like to express my appreciation of the LaTeX package glossaries. >>>> For my mathematical texts I am using it for a list of symbols with one >>>> subsection per chapter which is supposed to support the reader in >>>> searching for symbols at the right place. I set up my documents with >>>> included .tex-files that contain the glossary definitions. Unfortunately >>>> it is a little cumbersome to maintain these files with many entries of the >>>> form >>>> >>>> \newglossaryentry{symb:field:finite}{ >>>> type = symbols:chapter9,% >>>> name = {\ensuremath{\mathbb{F}_{q}}},% >>>> sort = aaa,% >>>> description = {field with $q$ elements}% >>>> } >>>> >>>> The ideal solution would be a database application similar to JabRef for >>>> bibliographical references. When I read about the package gloss I thought >>>> of the potential option to actually use JabRef to maintain a .bib-file >>>> with symbol definitions and to let gloss do the rest. However, I do not >>>> think JabRef will allow to maintain .bib-files the way gloss needs them. >>>> Even worse, I didn't figure out how to set up multiple glossaries with >>>> gloss. >>>> >>>> Hoping for help I'm looking forward to your answer. >>>> >>>> Thanks and Regards! >>>> >>>> Thomas Schwabhäuser >>> >>> -- >>> Dr Nicola Talbot (Mrs Nicola Cawley) >>> Dickimaw Books >>> Text books, children's illustrated fiction and crime fiction >>> www.dickimaw-books.com >> > > > -- > Dr Nicola Talbot (Mrs Nicola Cawley) > Dickimaw Books > Text books, children's illustrated fiction and crime fiction > www.dickimaw-books.com
