Re: [Jabref-users] in LibreOffice, a "citation" can't really be copied

[Florian D. <flo...@st...>]

Thanks Ted, I fully agree with you. The combination 'cut' and 'paste' 
works fine with citations, but copying - as you point out correctly - 
turns initial citations into ordinary text, which is far from desirable. 
It would be nice if this could be fixed soon.

Best,
Florian

On 17.11.2015 22:12, Ted Carnevale wrote:
> Ideally one should be able to copy and paste text
> that contains a citation in a way that preserves the
> "citation-ness" of the copied citation.
> Is that possible with LibreOffice 4.2.8.2 and JabRef 2.9.2?
>
> Senario:
> Edit a "text document" in LibreOffice 4.2.8.2
> that looks like this:
>
> Foo
> Bar
>
> Put cursor at end of first line.
> Select article by Schmidt and Smegegi in JabRef 2.9.2
> Push selection to the LibreOffice text document
> Result:  the citation (Schmidt and Smegegi 2012) appears in the text
> document.
>
> Foo (Schmidt and Smegegi 2012) <-- sentence with original citation
> Bar
>
> So far so good.  If I were to click on the button
> "Ensure that the bibliography is up-to-date"
> the document would include the bibliographic information
> for Schmidt and Smegegi 2012.
>
>
> But copying and pasting a block of text
> that contains inserted citations
> turns the pasted citations into ordinary text.
>
> In the text document select the first sentence
> Copy it
> Paste it to a new location in the text document
> so now the document looks like this:
>
> Foo (Schmidt and Smegegi 2012)  <-- sentence with original citation
> Bar
> Foo (Schmidt and Smegegi 2012)  <-- copied sentence
>
> Big clue of impending trouble:  in the original sentence,
> the citation has a dark grey background;
> in the copied sentence, it does not.
>
> Now delete the original sentence.  The document becomes
>
> Bar.
> Foo (Schmidt and Smegegi 2012) <-- copied sentence
>
> Finally click on the button
> "Ensure that the bibliography is up-to-date"
>
> Result:  no bibliography is generated
>
> This is a big problem, especially for any article that undergoes
> nontrivial revision.  Is there some feature of JabRef or LibreOffice
> that I am using incorrectly?
>
> --Ted
>
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