New concept for the entry editor

JabRef / jabref

Graphical Java application for managing BibTeX and biblatex (.bib) databases

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New concept for the entry editor #6856

Open koppor opened 4 years ago

koppor commented 4 years ago

Borrow from ReadCube: (Source: https://www.g2.com/products/readcube-papers/reviews)

grafik

Visually render field in different typography
Group fields semantically
Require fields always present (maybe in gray and place holder, e.g. <authors>)

Available fields:

journal / booktitle year
title
authors
abstract
ranking
Keywords
Citekey
Identifiers

Idea for text fields (journal, year, abstract)

Click on the title leads to a direct editing of the title. Exiting the edit by clicking to somewhere else, the change is committed.

Idea for identifiers:

Identifiers can be added by a "+"

(others need to be refined)

Tabs (as icons)

Paper Recommendations
BibTeX Source

Posponed Ideas

Expansion similar to Android Contact Manager
“+” new field

Siedlerchr commented 3 years ago

Hi, this is not a good first issue because it requires deep understanding of the concepts of bibtex and the code of JabRef and the javafx gui stuff. It's a large issue. in addition,it is a critical key/core component of JabRef and needs to be working 100%

Do you have any link to your tool so that we can test it or do you have a paper?

koppor commented 3 years ago

I think, the discussion is also whether a good-first-issue should be something being a quick win for the contributor or whether it should be hard-to-do, but afterwards, the contributor knows nearly everything about the software. We optimize for the former when putting GFI labels.

A nearly forgotten property of GFI issues is that the total number of GFI issues should not be too high. A GFI should be well-described and provide the newcomer a good start. This is hard work to do.

koppor commented 3 years ago

The other idea we had at JabCon: Implement simlarly as Android's contact application:

list of pairs: Field label + Field contents
plus button for adding a new field

koppor commented 3 years ago

This refs https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/6191 (which has a similar screenshot)

koppor commented 3 years ago

ThiloteE commented 2 years ago

Proposal:

Work on a new concept to be introduced in future versions of JabRef (e.g. 6.x)
Refine current concept with tabs as proposed by #4686 in JabRef 5.x

koppor commented 11 months ago

[ ] Support for translations. See https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/10459#issuecomment-1755452707 for more information.

koppor commented 3 months ago

A simple variant is described at https://github.com/koppor/jabref/issues/679

koppor commented 2 months ago

Also should support biblatex annotations; https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/11505