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As Paper is improving towards a powerful collaboration tool, I would like to see this features in near future. For sceintific and academic writing, citation is an essential feature. It would be nice if Paper adopts to one of the most popular citation format BibTex. What paper need to implement is someting like this: in the text we need a citation field, say, "\cite{tag_journal_1}". And in the end of the text include the list of citaion with tag.
\begin{Bibliography}[Bibliography Style]
tag_journal_1{
Author: author one, author two,
Title: This is Title,
Journal: Journal Name,
Vol: xx,
Pages: xxx
Year: 2018}
\end{Bibliography}
Good thing is that bibliography can be downloaded from most journals as above BibTex format, it is widely popular. Even better if Paper implements an universal citation manager where we can directly import citations, and insert into any Paper document.
Hi,
Can you please add *.org / *.bib / *.tex to the list of associated plain text files.
This would enable people who use Emacs org-mode and use BibTex Bibliographies and LaTeX files to view them in preview and or make small edits on the move.
Obviously I'm not expecting any fancy syntax highlighting or anything of that nature but just an association so that Dropbox knows they are plain text files would be helpful.
Thanks
- Lusil
Dropbox Staff
Thanks Lusil,
Can you also add *.el (e-lisp) to the list to be associated with plain text files.
Thanks
Pete
- It probably won't help much, but as an another emacs user, I would like to also petition for these file types to be associated with plain text and visible on the apps and website.
Me too, not being able to view the .org files stored on my Dropbox is a major annoyance for me...
- Walter
Hey there Elixir - thanks for using Paper and sharing your creative ideas! :nerd:
I'm passing your comments along to the Paper's dev team for consideration.
If there's anything else I can do for you in the meantime, do let me know and keep those great ideas and suggestions coming! :wink:
Any idea how to include bibtex references or to include latex refernece ?
- Walter
Hey there malshar - thanks for using Paper!
We do support the use of LaTeX on Paper and to trigger LaTeX editing mode, just type $$ in your doc. You can then type full LaTeX symbols in Dropbox Paper. When you're finished typing, you can render the code by pressing Enter or Return on your keyboard.
In regards to using BibTex within Paper, I've passed your comments on to our team as a feature request - thank you for your feedback!
[I also moved your post under the thread that first brought this under my radar to keep things neat within our forums.]
Let me know if there's anything else I can assist with from my end and I will be happy to help.
- Emma
Community Manager
Status changed:NewtoGathering Support For folks wanting support for org mode files, there's always https://org-web.org/ until something gets baked in!
Apparently the Like button does not work on mobile.
A +1 from me too for:
> Can you please add *.org / *.bib / *.tex to the list of associated plain text files.
Don't know why I can't vote up the comments, so I'll add another comment. I would love to see this feature come back. Yes, come back: when I started using Dropbox on iOS several years ago, I was able to view text-mode .org files just fine.
Seems to me like Dropbox should default to showing files as plain-text by default (as long as they are small enough). There's no harm in allowing it, it would allow other proprietary formats to be supported for free, and even for your random file type, viewing the raw source can still be instructive in many cases.
What good is it having a plain text file on Dropbox that the app won't let you see? Seems like a useless anti-feature to me.
So much so that I submitted a dropbox ticket to request this feature, ticket #9092622. Unfortunately the process of explaining what I wanted, and providing all the mountains of useless and even redundant supporting data that was requested (screenshots? really?), proved so painful that I simply, and in futile dejected misery, gave up.
- WalterStatus changed:Gathering SupporttoNot for right now
- HannahStatus changed:Not for right nowtoClosed
Hey everyone, this idea has been closed as it has reached the end of the Share an Idea process.
