Mohammad, Pre-populating the user fields, ect. was a thought of the moment, but I agree with you on pre populating fields. I suggest as an alternative instead of spending the time and energy to build an interface in Refnotes. Just add an enhancement to import .bib files, and provide a short list of links to editors so you don't have to reinvent the wheel. I also included on tutorial site as well so rank beginners such as myself can use to self-educate from an easy to read environment. I wouldn't recommend people to have to dig into the actual documentation. It's overkill and more likely to turn people off when they see it. I hope this helps! and thank you for taking the time to listen to me.
*Tutorial:* https://www.latex-tutorial.com/tutorials/bibtex/ *Free Online BibTEX editor:* https://truben.no/latex/bibtex/ *Free Cross platform editors: * https://www.jabref.org (Apple OS X, Windows, Linux) https://miktex.org/ *Native Linux* Linux KDE gui: bibTEX (through the package manager for the distro) Linux Gnome gui: Setzer (https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-latex), Marker (https://github.com/fabiocolacio/Marker), *Aggregate listings *of multiple editors in a single place 10 Best Latex editors for 2021 : https://beebom.com/best-latex-editors/ https://botw.org/top/Computers/Software/Typesetting/TeX/BibTeX/ On Sunday, December 20, 2020 at 11:23:45 PM UTC-5 Mohammad wrote: > Hi Douglas, > > I will hopefully work on Refnotes documentation to help newbies find > their way easily. But just to answer your questions above > > 1. Refnotes has three small tools > 1.1. abbreviations (to insert abbreviations and create glossary table) > 1.2. footnotes (to insert numbered footnote in the tiddler body and create > at the bottom of the tiddler full length footnotes) > 1.3. bibliography (to insert references, and create bibliography table) > > To use it: > > 1. drag and drop the Refnotes to your wiki > 2. install Bibtex importer (not required but automate things) > > i. Normally people use some libraries to get the bibliography data. Almost > any library support bibtex format, so you need to export bibliography data > as .bib files > ii. import the bibliography data (.bib files to your wiki. Bibtex Importer > gets the data and generates bibtex entry tiddlers with all required > fields (automatically) > iii. you can now cite using simple Refnotes macro > > That's all. > > Refnotes plugin does not manually create bibtex entries nor encourage to > do that! Bibliography data can be retrieved from a library like Google > Scholar, sciencedirect.com, library of congress, ... > > But as an enhancement, I can add a macro to get data from the user and all > the user to create a bibtex entry manually > > Hope this helps you and answers some of your questions. > > > > Best wishes > Mohammad > > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 12:20 AM Douglas Glenn <dgle...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Wow, it shows up now (bibtex importer). I don't know how I missed it. I >> had tried to install it by downloading each script in the Content tab on >> your Refnote site and importing it on my end. I managed to create one >> Bibliography tiddler, but only after observing how you had done it in your >> examples (AMADEO1995949). Try as I may, the only Bibtex reference that >> syntax was on bib...@tug.org, written by Oren Patashnik 9 Feb 1988 >> titled BibTEXing. With examples like: >> >> @INPROCEEDINGS(no-gnats, >> crossref = "gg-proceedings", >> author = "Rocky Gneisser", >> title = "No Gnats Are Taken for Granite", >> pages = "133-139") >> . . . >> @PROCEEDINGS(gg-proceedings, >> editor = "Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter", >> title = "The Gnats and Gnus 1988 Proceedings", >> booktitle = "The Gnats and Gnus 1988 Proceedings") >> >> Since I only obtained a BA, I had not gone further and possibility being >> exposed to the syntax for a Masters or Doctorate degree. Research I learned >> and think I do fairly well with, left me ignorant of how it should be >> expressed. There was a Bibtex editor available to me, but it outputs: >> >> [image: Bibtex.jpg] >> >> Would I just start each field name with bibtex- (output field here) ? The >> example I spoke of, a few fields have bibtex-(field name) but others do >> not. Please excuse my ignorance but the Refnotes Tiddlywiki only increased >> my confusion. It's aimed at a more experienced Tiddlywiki user familiar >> with filters, ect, but for a raw novice such as myself who simply wants to >> install it and run with it, but it isn't explicitly clear that its output >> is predicated on a field, value pair vs within the editor. >> >> I downloaded the reference above from the Refnotes site as a tid and >> imported it. Happily enough the fields used in the example now show under >> User Fields for selection. Consider this an enhancement request for >> pre-populating those fields under Bibtex Field separator/category when the >> plugin is installed. The addition of these as a selection under Bibtex >> fields (not User fields) would be invaluable to a novice such as myself. It >> may or may not be doable because simply deleting the plugin (under removing >> plugins instructions on the Tiddlywiki.com) would likely leave the field >> selections still available in the field selection dropdown. Perhaps if you >> had another entry under the plugin Content label, you could create the >> addition of a shadow tiddler that would contain these fields and link them >> to the core fields in order to remove the fields when removing the plugin. >> >> As an IT support/admin and BA from the late 80's to present day, One >> lesson I learned that has served me best. As a naturally lazy individual >> I'd always sought to find methods that would automate my job, or reduce any >> support load I had to handle. That lesson was to 'dumb down' the >> documentation to the end users level. All too many times documentation is >> non-existing or lacking. I hated writing documentation, but as I discovered >> it made my job so much easier I succumbed to the habit of creating it to >> meet the need to keep support calls with the end user or the Help Desk so >> the calls didn't need to be pushed up to my level to handle. >> >> A little more detail in your documentation in addition to pre populating >> the bibtex fields would greatly increase the use, popularity and value of >> your plugin. I mean no offense, but I do admit being lazy. >> >> Have a great day safely with you and yours. >> Doug >> >> On Saturday, December 19, 2020 at 11:44:24 PM UTC-5 Mohammad wrote: >> >>> Hi Douglas, >>> Many thanks for your feedback. I have corrected the issues. The >>> official plugins can be installed from $:/ControlPanel, Plugins tab using >>> "Get more plugins". These plugins are distributed with Tiddlywiki. >>> >>> Refnotes will have an overhaul after TW 5.1.23 is released. Notably >>> support for different styles (book, journal, dissertation, website, >>> conference paper,...) better view template for bibtex entry and Node.js >>> version are among new features. I will then correct the documentation and >>> tutorial. >>> >>> https://github.com/kookma/TW-Refnotes >>> >>> Best wishes >>> Mohammad >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 5:38 AM Douglas Glenn <dgle...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Mohammad, >>>> >>>> Your tutorial says: >>>> >>>> It is recommended to use the official *Bibtex Importer* plugin for >>>> using with bibliography code. >>>> >>>> I cannot find it. >>>> *Note:* The sidebar Bibtex tab can also be used for details of >>>> bibliography macro. >>>> I don't have this tab. >>>> >>>> Now I just have to learn how to use it >>>> :-) >>>> >>>> On Saturday, December 19, 2020 at 8:58:31 PM UTC-5 Douglas Glenn wrote: >>>> >>>>> Greetings Mohammad, >>>>> >>>>> Just a FYI if you have the time to correct them anytime soon. >>>>> >>>>> From the link in your recent entry of Refnotes in the Tiddlywiki under >>>>> the Resources tiddler, you updated it 20 Nov 2020, but but the link >>>>> referenced: >>>>> >>>>> https://kookma.github.io/Refnotes/ >>>>> This resulted in a 404 error. >>>>> >>>>> It should point to https://kookma.github.io/TW-Refnotes/ >>>>> This link works. >>>>> >>>>> On that page, the installation link did had the same 404 error >>>>> >>>>> I noticed someone had made a change an hour before I logged onto >>>>> Github yesterday. 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