RE: "insert bibtex bibliography" GUI proposal

2013-04-05 Thread Scott Kostyshak
AM To: Jürgen Spitzmüller; lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org Subject: RE: "insert bibtex bibliography" GUI proposal From: Jürgen Spitzmüller [sp...@lyx.org] Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 5:07 AM >John Tapsell wrote: >> If you need people to read documentation, the GUI is too complicated. >

RE: "insert bibtex bibliography" GUI proposal

2012-07-03 Thread Scott Kostyshak
From: Jürgen Spitzmüller [sp...@lyx.org] Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 5:07 AM >John Tapsell wrote: >> If you need people to read documentation, the GUI is too complicated. >> >> It should be so simple that you don't need documentation. >Good point. I'm not completely convinced by this argument (a

Re: "insert bibtex bibliography" GUI proposal

2012-06-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
John Tapsell wrote: > If you need people to read documentation, the GUI is too complicated. > > It should be so simple that you don't need documentation. Good point. Jürgen

Re: "insert bibtex bibliography" GUI proposal

2012-06-01 Thread John Tapsell
On 1 June 2012 09:40, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Liviu Andronic wrote: >> Definitely not. When I started using LyX, it took me several months to >> get to the bottom of how to use BibTeX bibliography. I even wrote a >> step-by-step procedure in the LyX Essentials [1] (see Section 12). I >> do not

Re: "insert bibtex bibliography" GUI proposal

2012-06-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Liviu Andronic wrote: > Definitely not. When I started using LyX, it took me several months to > get to the bottom of how to use BibTeX bibliography. I even wrote a > step-by-step procedure in the LyX Essentials [1] (see Section 12). I > do not have any specific ideas GUI-wise, but I do think that

Re: "insert bibtex bibliography" GUI proposal

2012-06-01 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > I would like to get some opinions on this before I start working on it. Am I > alone in thinking the GUI is confusing? > Definitely not. When I started using LyX, it took me several months to get to the bottom of how to use BibTeX bibliograp

Re: "insert bibtex bibliography" GUI proposal

2012-06-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Scott Kostyshak wrote: > Excellent point. I'm not sure where I stand on this but your argument is > strong. Something that I think would still be in line with this good > practice would be to allow for a personal .bib folder. I would personally > prefer to have my custom .bibs listed by themselves

RE: "insert bibtex bibliography" GUI proposal

2012-06-01 Thread Scott Kostyshak
From: Jürgen Spitzmüller [sp...@lyx.org] Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 3:23 AM >Scott Kostyshak wrote: >> I would like to get some opinions on this before I start working on it. Am I >> alone in thinking the GUI is confusing? Do most people use the example >> .bibs more than their own .bibs? Or perh

RE: "insert bibtex bibliography" GUI proposal

2012-06-01 Thread Scott Kostyshak
From: John Tapsell [johnf...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 3:21 AM >On 1 June 2012 07:56, Scott Kostyshak wrote: >> I find that the GUI for adding a bibtex bibliography is not optimized for >> the most common use: adding your own bibliography. Is it very common to use >> one of the examp

Re: "insert bibtex bibliography" GUI proposal

2012-06-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Scott Kostyshak wrote: > I would like to get some opinions on this before I start working on it. Am I > alone in thinking the GUI is confusing? Do most people use the example > .bibs more than their own .bibs? Or perhaps people commonly store their > user .bibs in the path so that what I am calling

Re: "insert bibtex bibliography" GUI proposal

2012-06-01 Thread John Tapsell
On 1 June 2012 07:56, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > I find that the GUI for adding a bibtex bibliography is not optimized for > the most common use: adding your own bibliography. Is it very common to use > one of the example bibliographies? I also find that it's unintuitive if > you're not used to it a