Re: [pyblio] Three suggestions...

[Moritz Moeller-H. <mm...@gm...>]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 05:15:14PM +0100, Frederic Gobry wrote:
>> 1. The dialog for adding new entries ALWAYS opens at the position 0,0 =
(left
>> top) of the screen even though my kicker panel covers this position. t=
he dialog
>> thus does not respect the WM specifications for new windows. I am not =
sure if
>> this is pyb's fault or if gtk/pygnome is to blame, I thought I would j=
ust
>> mention it.

>I honestly don't know. Is this the only dialog in pyblio that causes
>this problem? (compared to other dialogs, it has some code to set the
>size of the window, but nothing explicit concerning its location)

Yes, it is the only dialog showing this problem. (Sorting, File-open,
medline-query do not show this problem.)


>> 2. The German classic quotes like =BBthis=AB still cause minor problem=
s.=20
>> If I enter them in the normal editing mode, the result in the .bib fil=
e is
>> ''this`` even though they look right on the screen.
>> If I go to native editing mode and enter \frqq{}this\flqq{}, everythin=
g works
>> fine.

>I'm afraid this is a latex/recode problem. AFAIK, the english `` ''
>quotes are output as =AB =BB when using certain options (french,
>apparently german too).=20

No only the french package tries to automatize this. German quotes are ei=
ther
,,this'' or =BBthis=AB

>Are the \frqq and \flqq commands standard, or
>do they belong to so language-specific package ?=20

Standard.

>If they are standard,
>recode could be blamed for the bug. If not, I'm afraid it's a bit
>difficult to know in advance what latex code to generate.

I think just always recoding =AB =BB to \flqq{} and\frqq{} would fix the =
problem for
everyone.

>> 3. If you have a small screen, you have to scroll to see all the entri=
es if you
>> add an entry to the database. Unfortunately even the tabs on top (Requ=
ired,
>> Optional, Extra) scroll away, which seems awkward.

>Right, the tabs should be set outside of the scrolling area. It'll be
>fixed for the next version.


Great!


--=20
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