Re: [Biborb-general] BibOrb 1.2

[Feiyi Wang]

> concerning the display (right aligned, id editable), it may come from 
> your web browser. I use CSS it is more or less well supported. To my 
> knowledge, everything looks "normal" with Mozilla, FireFox, Camino, Safari.

I use Firefox, it doesn't look normal to me, see attached screen 
capture. Did I missconfigure something? note: this only occurs when you 
modify an existing entry with optional field.



> I think that the most "distracting" is he bibtex id. I update the CVS 
> branch with a CSS hack to display a less attracting bibtex id... I also 
> right align the biborb commands but not the url, pdf... It creates a 
> function separation: on the left, the icons allow to get information 
> about the article, on the right it is biborb action (edit/delete/add to 
> basket/remove)

great.

> I don't understand what you mean exactly by online backup? when editing 
> a new entry?

no, I am thinking something like phpBB (a BBS forum based using mysql), 
where you can backup the database (containing all published articles) to 
a zip file (of course, through a web interface).

In this case, that would be zip all bibs/ directory and articles into 
someplace safe, say before an upgrade.


> I don't think it is a good idea because it may be source of edition 
> errors and incompatibilities: what about unknown fields when exporting 
> to bibtex? to html? The idea of the edition in biborb is to hide the 
> BibTeX language,  one could use any other language and biborb could deal 
> with it. (assuming an XML transformation of the input file)

Point taken. The only thing I often want to change is "article ID" or 
the keyword, there are various reasons behind it, but I can't do it with 
current implementation.


The other minor issue I have experienced so far is, when you download a 
bibtex (raw file), there is quite a bit of left margin, is there a 
particular reason for that?


Thanks

Feiyi