What is Pyblink
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Pyblink is a small application which can be used together with Pybliographer.
It makes it easier to use Pybliographer in connection with other applications 
like Open Office.


What is Pyblink doing
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Pyblink takes care of 3 tasks:
1. it maintains a list of articles from a Pybliographer DB that is relevant
for a given document.
2. it makes it possible to generate a formatted reference list for the
used references.
3. it uses the "cite" facility from pybliographer to build and maintain its 
reference list and make the refence id available in the X-clipboard.


How is Pyblink used
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When you want to write a document eg. in Open Office, you start Pyblink and 
create a new reference list for your document (eg. "MyDocument.rl"). 
You then start pybliographic and your word-processor.
When you need to cite a reference, you select the appropriate refence in 
pybliographic and press the Cite-button. You then switch to your 
word-processor and paste the reference id into your document. Behind your 
back Pyblink will check if the id is already in the reference list, and if 
it is not, it will be added.
When you want to include the formatted reference list in your document, you 
select "Generate reference list" from pyblinks File menu, and a text or HTML 
document will be generated, which can easily be included in your document-file.


How does it work
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Pyblink uses the Cite-facility created for Lyx. It means that the Lyx-pipe must
exist, and pybliographic must be configurated to use that lyx-pipe.
The default lyx pipe is in ~/.lyx and is called lyxpipe.in and lyxpipe.out.


How to install pyblink
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For installation instructions and requirements see the file INSTALL.


Comments, bugs, improvements
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Please send comments, bugs or improvements to pyblink@sonnet.dk

