Re: Toward Biblatex support: understanding what work is required

2014-11-10 Thread stefano franchi
On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 11/09/2014 10:35 AM, stefano franchi wrote: > > > > On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > >> stefano franchi wrote: >> > Right. But if going for a change in the Document dialog, the Bibtex >> inset >> > would become

Re: Toward Biblatex support: understanding what work is required

2014-11-09 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/09/2014 10:35 AM, stefano franchi wrote: On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller > wrote: stefano franchi wrote: > Right. But if going for a change in the Document dialog, the Bibtex inset > would become overkill, wouldn't it? It'd be bet

Re: Toward Biblatex support: understanding what work is required

2014-11-09 Thread stefano franchi
On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 5:15 AM, dd3fmlli wrote: > > as a biblatex user, I would like to add a (probably marginal) comment on > the list of the desired features. > > One of the most interesting features of biblatex, for me, is the fact > that "database" is detached from the actual printing comman

Re: Toward Biblatex support: understanding what work is required

2014-11-09 Thread stefano franchi
On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Am Sonntag 09 November 2014, 08:31:10 schrieb stefano franchi: > > So, before I start playing with the code: what's the recommended git > usage > > in this case? Should I create a biblatex branch in the features repo (as > > described in

Re: Toward Biblatex support: understanding what work is required

2014-11-09 Thread stefano franchi
On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > stefano franchi wrote: > > Right. But if going for a change in the Document dialog, the Bibtex inset > > would become overkill, wouldn't it? It'd be better to create a new and > much > > simpler inset. > > Why? You can attach a different

Re: Toward Biblatex support: understanding what work is required

2014-11-09 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Am Sonntag 09 November 2014, 08:31:10 schrieb stefano franchi: > So, before I start playing with the code: what's the recommended git usage > in this case? Should I create a biblatex branch in the features repo (as > described in the wiki)? Or should I simply create a personal repo for the > moment

Re: Toward Biblatex support: understanding what work is required

2014-11-09 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
stefano franchi wrote: > Right. But if going for a change in the Document dialog, the Bibtex inset > would become overkill, wouldn't it? It'd be better to create a new and much > simpler inset. Why? You can attach a different dialog to it if biblatex is used. The advatage of using the existing in

Re: Toward Biblatex support: understanding what work is required

2014-11-09 Thread stefano franchi
So, before I start playing with the code: what's the recommended git usage in this case? Should I create a biblatex branch in the features repo (as described in the wiki)? Or should I simply create a personal repo for the moment? Stefano -- __ St

Re: Toward Biblatex support: understanding what work is required

2014-11-09 Thread stefano franchi
On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 3:06 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > stefano franchi wrote: > > From a user's perspective, a minimally satisfactory support of biblatex > > requires the following: > > > > 1. A biblatex dialog similar to the current bibtex's dialog, where users > > can enter: > > a. the

Re: Toward Biblatex support: understanding what work is required

2014-11-09 Thread stefano franchi
On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Richard Heck wrote: On 11/04/2014 01:21 PM, stefano franchi wrote: > >> b. I don't quite understand where and how the widget itself is defined. >> I am used to either define widget programmatically by creating (and >> possibly nesting) layouts and then adding the

Re: Toward Biblatex support: understanding what work is required

2014-11-09 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
stefano franchi wrote: > From a user's perspective, a minimally satisfactory support of biblatex > requires the following: > > 1. A biblatex dialog similar to the current bibtex's dialog, where users > can enter: > a. the list of files (not necessarily in bibtex format) containing the > refere

Re: Toward Biblatex support: understanding what work is required

2014-11-08 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/04/2014 01:21 PM, stefano franchi wrote: Dear devels, I am starting to look into biblatex support, with a long term project of perhaps writing the required code or (what's more likely, given my poor knowledge of C++) helping put together some general desiderata and detailing the associa

Re: Toward Biblatex support: understanding what work is required

2014-11-08 Thread dd3fmlli
as a biblatex user, I would like to add a (probably marginal) comment on the list of the desired features. One of the most interesting features of biblatex, for me, is the fact that "database" is detached from the actual printing command. Namely, once one adds a "bib" file to the document with

Toward Biblatex support: understanding what work is required

2014-11-04 Thread stefano franchi
Dear devels, I am starting to look into biblatex support, with a long term project of perhaps writing the required code or (what's more likely, given my poor knowledge of C++) helping put together some general desiderata and detailing the associated work. My understanding of the problem is the fo