[OS X TeX] BibTeX macro poll

[Matthew Hills]

On Sep 28, 2004, at 12:41 AM, Michael McCracken wrote:

> Hi Will, thanks for the info. I'd certainly like to support the full 
> syntax, but the problems are mainly how to display and edit that kind 
> of thing in a GUI. Any suggestions are definitely appreciated.
>

I would suggest keeping it simple for now.  Maybe:
   - show the actual syntax (with macro) in the edit citation view
   - show the evaluated field in the bibliography listing view

(Handling string definitions from other files could introduce some 
twists; in the case that you
can't identify a string, I'd recommend leaving it unevaluated and then 
trying to hilight the problem to the
user--eg, put the field in red or italics or some-such)

Matt

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