On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 03:35:38PM -0700, Pavel Sanda wrote: > I would start with implementing lfun, which would just take the citation > and try to > 1. if pdf file found, trigger pdf viewer with file path (doc dir as a base) > 2. if url found, trigger browser with url
That sounds like a good plan. > 3. otherwise take author & title & year and trigger browser with url like > > https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_q=title&as_sauthors=author&as_ylo=year&as_yhi=year > (this sounds cool:) Interesting idea. I had not thought of something like that. > Then you could just add to context menu this lfun and it would work for > single citations. > There could be even more advanced version of automatically filled submenu with > all papers in the case citation inset contains more citations. But I would > first > start with the simple lfun, how far it gets. Makes sense. > I don't think that the security issue is really problem, you just need proper > launcher which has as first arg binary name for the executable and second arg > for > params and not our homebrew startscript. > Since we know what the executable is (we go either html or pdf) this should > be quite straightforward. OK. Thanks for the feedback. I have no idea when I would actually start work on this, but I think we have shaped the idea enough now that I would know where to start. Of course if anyone beats me to implementing this, they are most welcome. Scott
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