[referencer] Can plugins access tags and notes fields?

[Douglas Rees]

Hi,

I've been using referencer for all of a day, and I'm quite impressed (I
especially like the ease of DOI lookup, once you get past the
registration hurdle [is it possible to have a link in the dialog box, or
selectable text?])

I'm only an amateur pythoner, but I'd like to write a plugin that would
generate an annotated biography (current idea is to generate a LaTeX
file with a full citation of each selected reference followed by some
notes), possibly separating it into several sections.

For this to work I'd need to be able to access the notes field of the
reference, but I can't seem to find a way of doing it (there is no
get_notes() function, but is there some other function that could return
the notes?), and I'm similarly unsure about whether plugins can access tags.

This way I'd be able to keep my references and notes together, and
easily be able to generate something extra to show my supervisor that
I'm actually doing something (well, there are several extra possibilities).

Cheers,

-Doug

[Mads Chr. Olesen]

Post by Douglas Rees
I've been using referencer for all of a day, and I'm quite impressed (I
especially like the ease of DOI lookup, once you get past the
registration hurdle [is it possible to have a link in the dialog box,
or selectable text?])

Are you talking about the "crossref" plugin?

Post by Douglas Rees
I'm only an amateur pythoner, but I'd like to write a plugin that would
generate an annotated biography (current idea is to generate a LaTeX
file with a full citation of each selected reference followed by some
notes), possibly separating it into several sections.

If you use the most recent release (1.2.0) there is an option under
"Files" to "Export notes as HTML", which might be similar to what you
want.

Post by Douglas Rees
For this to work I'd need to be able to access the notes field of the
reference, but I can't seem to find a way of doing it (there is no
get_notes() function, but is there some other function that could
return the notes?), and I'm similarly unsure about whether plugins can
access tags.

I just implemented a doc.getNotes() and doc.setNotes() function, and
pushed it to trunk. If you can compile trunk, you can use these.

Accessing the tags is a bit more involved, but I will try to take a look
at it later today. If I forget, could you open a bug about it or remind
me in some other way?

Post by Douglas Rees
This way I'd be able to keep my references and notes together, and
easily be able to generate something extra to show my supervisor that
I'm actually doing something (well, there are several extra
possibilities).

I use the attached, quite hacky, python script to generate a
reStructuredText like list of my publications [1] from the BibTex file
generated from Referencer. It is not very robust, and barfs at all kinds
of character problems.

[1] http://people.cs.aau.dk/~mchro/pubs.html