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

Thank you very much for your feedback. I modified the specifications
accordingly.

Best,
Joeran

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <
andrew@pitonyak.org> wrote:

> 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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