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JabRef / jabref

Graphical Java application for managing BibTeX and biblatex (.bib) databases
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Synchronization with Overleaf #156

Open koppor opened 8 years ago

koppor commented 8 years ago

It should be possible to synchronize references with ShareLaTeX.

jdpipe commented 5 years ago

why was this bug closed? was a solution implemented, or was the idea rejected for some reason?

Siedlerchr commented 5 years ago

The issue was put on hold. That means we try to focus on other issues first due to lack of resources. However, I developed a generally working solution which needs still to be improved before it can be used. See #2866 for details.

k3KAW8Pnf7mkmdSMPHz27 commented 3 years ago

I don't think I can close this issue, but I'll be starting with export and "Push entries to external application (Overleaf)" features next week and see if I can get some inspiration for the synchronization issue meanwhile.

I'll see if I can continue on https://github.com/koppor/jabref/pull/445 afterwards.

Siedlerchr commented 3 years ago

@k3KAW8Pnf7mkmdSMPHz27 That is really nice! I wrote the initial feature years ago and recently reworked it to successfully connect to overleaf. Might look complicated at first 😏 The general logic is that JabRef establishes/hooks into the web socket connection that overleaf uses to report changes. It's working bidirectional. Key challenge is to apply the incoming changes from overleaf which are character positions relative to the start of the document and not on a per entry basis.

koppor commented 3 years ago

@k3KAW8Pnf7mkmdSMPHz27 Nice to hear! My main concerns are written there https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/pull/2866#issuecomment-388264343. You can reach me via mail or skype (same user name). Let's discuss details.

koppor commented 3 years ago

I don't think I can close this issue, but I'll be starting with export and "Push entries to external application (Overleaf)" features next week

I think, this is already implemented in https://github.com/koppor/jabref/pull/445, isn't it?

koppor commented 3 years ago

Related work regarding synchronization: https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/pull/5669

k3KAW8Pnf7mkmdSMPHz27 commented 3 years ago

I am stuck on the same synchronization issue as #7618.

koppor commented 3 years ago

With the part at https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/7618#issuecomment-845543064, we came up with a solution how optimistic offline lock also works for locally stored files. We did not came up with an idea in 2015.