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

[Michael S. <sm...@xm...>]

Bruce D'Arcus <bd...@fa...> writes:

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

[...]

> >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.

I agree here

> 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.

The way I plan to handle selecting styles is through 'validated' Emacs
completion against whatever list of styles a query to the database
returns. That'll make it easy to use in that you won't need to remember
style names, and won't need to worry about mis-typing a style name,
because it will constrain you to just those style names that are
actually in the db.

How does that sound?

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

That sounds like a good idea to me.

  --Mike