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

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

On Dec 9, 2003, at 7:29 PM, Markus Hoenicka wrote:

> 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.

Good point.

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

Not following.

In any case, I think the ideal is to have some flexibility here.  If I 
create a document on a non-refdb system with some other xml editor, I 
want to be able to easily move it to my refdb box fire up emacs, and 
process the document without hassling with the command line.

> 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.

Well, the styles would only be those loaded in the database, and so 
would be user-defined styles.  A normal user would only ever have 5-10 
would be my guess.

I think we should open this stuff about user experience up to the user 
list for comment, BTW.

Bruce