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Command-line tool to manage bibliography (pdfs + bibtex)
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Interactive papers add ? #62

Open gl-yziquel opened 11 months ago

gl-yziquel commented 11 months ago

Hi.

I would like to know if it could be possible (or if it is kind of in the roadmap -- very well possibly could not be) to make papers addrun interactively and provide a mechanism to populate papers.bib interactively.

I'd like, for instance, to cite Théorie de l'addition des variables aléatoires, Paul Lévy, 1937, and it would be sensible, I guess, to enter that entry manually.

If it could be done manually, interactively, via the papers cli, that would be great. I do not see command line options for that, however.

perrette commented 11 months ago

Hi @gl-yziquel , it's a good idea, thanks for the suggestion. For now it's not possible. You'd have to add a bibtex entry crafted manually or with other tools (e g. jabref) or simply fetched from the internet.

Before any interactive addition though I'd first focus on a command that add or edit or remove predefined set of fields. And add more parameters to papers add to be 100% manual.