Re: Bibliography interface

Hi,
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On 1/14/07, John Spray <jcspray@icculus.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm working on a program for managing collections of documents and
> generating bibliographies. Currently, it only supports BibTeX output --
> I'd like to support AbiWord if it's feasible. Can anyone give me an
> idea of how to go about this?
>
> I basically need to know how to:
> 1. Dump the whole database in a format that abiword understands
> * Will abiword automatically only show the cited documents
> even if I give it everything, the way BibTeX behaves, or
> will I have to selectively output only entries that
> should appear?
> * Does this involve outputting bibliographic information
> and letting AbiWord handle the formatting, or do I have
> to output formatted text?
> 2. Insert a particular citation into an abiword document, when a
> user drags a document from my application into their abiword
> session.
> * If this isn't possible already it should be relatively
> simple to add assuming that AbiWord already implements
> citing items by some kind of labelling scheme, right?

AbiWord does currently not support any kind of bibliography "natively"
(maintaining a "References" section at the end of the document would
have to be done manually). The related entry in our issue tracker is
[1].
There is certainly interest in supporting citations but noone has
gotten around to implement it yet.

[1] http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6265

Best,
Rob
Received on Sun Jan 14 22:38:01 2007