Re: Developer needed for a LibreOffice add-on (for managing citations)

On 08/14/2013 11:05 AM, Joeran Beel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> we are planning to develop an open-source add-on for LibreOffice to 
> manage citations based on BibTeX and the citation style language 
> http://citationstyles.org/. If someone of you is interested in helping 
> us with the development (for money, if wanted), please send us an 
> email. We would also highly appreciate if you could help us promoting 
> our search for capable developers. For more information read here 
> http://www.docear.org/2013/08/14/who-wants-to-develop-docear4libreoffice-or-docear4openoffice/
>
> Best,
> Joeran
>
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I am not volunteering to do this, or claiming to have time to do this, 
but, I do have a few comments on some things you might want to clarify 
or consider:

1. This is to work on all platforms, but, in point 3, it states "with 
the Docear dfeault BibTex file being read from the registry and the user 
having the option to specify his BibTeX file." I assume that the 
registry is not available on all platforms, for example, Linux. It is 
possible, however, to store your preferences and/or default values as 
part of the LO/OO configuration if you desire. Just something to consider.

2. You do not indicate how the original dialogs were implemented. Many 
scripting languages are supported by OO, so, depending on the current 
implementation language, the existing code may be useful. Off hand, this 
does not look too horrid, so it might even be implementable in Basic. 
That said, it is not clear to me if this is a non-modal dialog open 
while the Write screen is also open, and I don't remember off hand how 
easy this is to accomplish - I think you can, but have never done it.

3. Point 5a states that it must be possible to insert references into 
textfields, footnotes, and the main text body. I am not certain that I 
understand this statement, but it does raise some concerns. My first 
concern is that I don't think that you can have formatted text in a text 
field, but I am not entirely clear as to what is intended here.

4. You discuss a windows installer, but, I would assume that you would 
want to simply use the existing method to install an extension, or, is 
it assumed that this is really a stand-alone program that just happens 
to be able to access and manipulate LO / OO documents? This is also 
possible (if you were wondering).

I need to run (wife is calling me to dinner), so I will finish with one 
quick comment

5. I think I saw that it stated that one extension should work for both 
LO and AOO. This is probably possible providing there are no toolbars 
added into OO. I do believe that an OO extension for AOO now contains a 
new element (or something) when using a toolbar.

Best of luck, there is a need for this project... or at least i assume 
so since I remember some people mentioning something about it in the past.




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