Integrating Citation Support into OpenOffice, KWord, etc.
There’s an interesting discussion going on at the development list for the OpenOffice bibliographic project. It began with my coming across a proposal for a similar project for KWord. It just so happens that KWord and OOo will be sharing the same file format in the future, so this naturally led me to speculate “hmm … what if there was a way to use the same code for both projects?”
This has seemed to strike a nerve, and the focus is now on figuring out a way to provide a common interface at the level of the word-processor to integrate different bibliographic managers. It would provide the kind of integration that Endnote provides with its Word plug-in, but not only hopefully improve on it, but also open it up to different bibliographic applications. One would in theory be able to use the same bibliographic application with any word-processor that supported the interface.
This could be really cool!
A shared word processor-bibliographic manager interface Yes! Finally, it seems that developers of two of the main open source word processors are putting their heads together to come up with a common method for interaction with bibliographic managers, so that “one would in theory be able to use the same bib…