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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Give your users amazing mobile app experiences with Intel XDK. > Use one codebase in this all-in-one HTML5 development environment. > Design, debug & build mobile apps & 2-D/3-D games for multiple OSs. > Then get your creation into app stores sooner, with many ways to monetize. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=254741551&iu=/4140 > _______________________________________________ > Jabref-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jabref-users > -- Florian Detsch (M.Sc. Physical Geography) Environmental Informatics working group Department of Geography Philipps-Universität Marburg Deutschhausstraße 12 35032 (parcel post: 35037) Marburg, Germany Tel +49 (0) 6421 28-25323 http://umweltinformatik-marburg.de/en/staff/florian-detsch/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Jabref-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jabref-users
