Re: [Refdb-devel] new-document and doc-processing menu behavior

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Bruce D'Arcus writes:
 > Maybe the solution should also be suitable for changing output styles 
 > too?  So then perhaps the new doc thing shouldn't specify and output 
 > style and create a makefile?
 > 

I think it would be beneficial to always create a Makefile along with
a new document. Otherwise the document processing is broke as soon as
you leave Emacs. If you create a Makefile by default, you can always
run "make pdf" or whatever from the command line and get some results.

I feel the best way to specify the style from the RefDB menu is to
pass this as an argument to the make command.

 > Let's see:
 > 
 > As with the database menu, styles are drawn from refdb.  When one needs 
 > to process the document but no style is selected, go to the style, 
 > choose the output option, and the makefile is created, and run with the 
 > appropriate option.
 > 
 > If later the user needs to change output styles, it involves the same 
 > process:  a simple menu click.
 > 
 > Menu structure might be:
 > 
 > 	- Process Document
 > 		- Style 1
 > 			- all
 > 			- html
 > 			- pdf
 > 			- xhtml
 > 		- Style 2
 > 			- all
 > 			- html
 > 			- pdf
 > 			- xhtml
 > 

If we ever get close to the journal support of the likes of RefMan or
EndNote, we'd be looking at roughly 700 style entries in this menu,
along with 5 submenus each. I don't think this is going to work. I'd
rather have the user select the style and, separately from this, have
him process the document.

regards,
Markus

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