Re: [Kile-devel] Using kate Plugin (pate) in Kile

[Frederik E. <fre...@ru...>]

Hi Thomas,

thanks for your answer.

Am Mittwoch, den 18.02.2009, 12:48 +0100 schrieb Thomas Braun:
> the question if you could use the pate-plugin depends on if the plugin is a 
> kate plugin or an katepart plugin. Only the latter can be used in kile.
> According to the homepage of pate-plugin there is no KDE4 version available, 
> which is a pitty because we only develop the KDE4 version of kile actively.

Ok, I don't have too much insight in the design of pate, but now I do at
least have some information that I can pass to the interested kile
users.

> How do you write this plugin anyway? Do you embed Firefox into gedit?

I use the SOAP interface that Zotero provides and that the
word-processor plugins do also use. This is pretty handy as it works
quite straightforward, but it has some limitations. Especially one
cannot make use of the internal BibTeX export mechanism of Zotero, but
has to rely on CSL styles for BibTeX export.

The plugin is still in rather early state of development, but I do
already have the SOAP interface and a simple extensible tempate
interface that allows to support different kinds of LaTeX citation
interfaces (plain LaTeX, biblatex, csquote, etc.). These are generic and
could easily be used in plugins independent of gedit.

The gedit specific part is a wrapper around gedit.Document that handles
the insertion of cites into the LaTeX document and the like. If one
would replace it with a wrapper around kate.document (pate) or something
similar, it should easily work with Kile and other editors that support
python plugins.

If anyones interested in this, you could have a look at
<https://launchpad.net/gedit-zotero>. Currently I develop this mainly
for my personal needs as I like Zotero but missed proper LaTeX support.
So I can't make any promises about speed and direction of development,
but I welcome any contribution that makes this more usable for others.

Cheers,
Frederik