New concept for the entry editor

[koppor]

Borrow from ReadCube: (Source: https://www.g2.com/products/readcube-papers/reviews)

• Visually render field in different typography
• Group fields semantically
• Require fields always present (maybe in gray and place holder, e.g. <authors>)

Available fields:

• journal / booktitle year
• title
• authors
• abstract
• ranking
• Keywords
• Citekey
• Identifiers

Idea for text fields (journal, year, abstract)

Click on the title leads to a direct editing of the title. Exiting the edit by clicking to somewhere else, the change is committed.

Idea for identifiers:

Identifiers can be added by a "+"

(others need to be refined)

Tabs (as icons)

• Paper Recommendations
• BibTeX Source

Posponed Ideas

• Expansion similar to Android Contact Manager
• “+” new field

[Siedlerchr]

Hi, this is not a good first issue because it requires deep understanding of the concepts of bibtex and the code of JabRef and the javafx gui stuff. It's a large issue.
in addition,it is a critical key/core component of JabRef and needs to be working 100%

Do you have any link to your tool so that we can test it or do you have a paper?

[koppor]

I think, the discussion is also whether a good-first-issue should be something being a quick win for the contributor or whether it should be hard-to-do, but afterwards, the contributor knows nearly everything about the software. We optimize for the former when putting GFI labels.

A nearly forgotten property of GFI issues is that the total number of GFI issues should not be too high. A GFI should be well-described and provide the newcomer a good start. This is hard work to do.

[koppor]

The other idea we had at JabCon: Implement simlarly as Android's contact application:

• list of pairs: Field label + Field contents
• plus button for adding a new field

[koppor]

This refs #6191 (which has a similar screenshot)

[koppor]

See also #2790 (comment)

[ThiloteE]

Proposal:

• Work on a new concept to be introduced in future versions of JabRef (e.g. 6.x)
• Refine current concept with tabs as proposed by Entry Editor: general changes #4686 in JabRef 5.x

[koppor]

• Support for translations. See Ignore initial unprotected uppercase in translated titles #10459 (comment) for more information.

[koppor]

A simple variant is described at koppor#679

[koppor]

Also should support biblatex annotations; #11505