Hmm, alright

Also, @orthocresol, is there a tool that allows you to format those research paper references in that format? (italics journal, bold year, italics volume) Or do you manually apply that formatting?

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@GaurangTandon I have a custom citation style in Mendeley which automatically outputs the correct thing.

See this chat message onwards. I meant to post it on meta but never got around to it.

@orthocresol hmm that seems to be a desktop software, and limited to research level chemistry. Would you like a tool that's next to the bold, italics buttons on the SE editor box, and does the same citation thing?

that would also help our general population

*i meant a userscript

That would definitely help, but I cannot implement it. Maybe as a browser addon/script, but I lack the skills to develop something like that. Also, ideally, it would be able to retrieve information about the article (at the least authors, title, year, journal, vol number, issue number, page numbers) from a DOI. You can probably accomplish this with the CrossRef API, but again I don't know how to do it.

If you're simply copy pasting the information from one tab to another, it kind of loses its utility (simply doing the reference manually probably becomes faster).

@orthocresol Yes, but I know how to do that. Been thinking about that for a while

@orthocresol "copy pasting the information" I don't get it? Even if I copy paste, the bold and italics need to be added in manually :(

and selecting the three separate texts thrice, adding in italics/bold/italics is repetitive and prone to error

What I mean is that you need to have a way of obtaining the information from a DOI.

If you don't have a way of doing this, then you need to copy paste the data into a popup window or something like that, I assume.

And that becomes only marginally better than copy pasting the data into the actual answer box.

@orthocresol so inputting a DOI should give back the complete citation, that's what you mean right?

Yup.

nice, didn't think of that. I'll take a break from editing stuff here, and see what I can do with these userscripts.

i also have one more, are you still free?

BTW, last I remember, anybody can download and use Mendeley (or similar software that will be able to generate those citations). The problem is that only people writing theses/papers will have any other incentive to use it.

Yeah I'm still free for now

i posted about this earlier, but it didn't pick up steam, so I dropped it

have a look --^

Nifty.

Is that a userscript?

it's a chrome extension i made

I'd suggest posting on meta

i didn't work on it further because, as you can see above, it didn't pick up any interest

hmm, I'll get it more polished, and then surely post on meta

gimme a week

Chat moves relatively quickly and not a lot of people come in, so sometimes things get glossed over.

You only need, for example, a conversation between two uninterested people to bury something

ha yeah, seems so. this is the complete proposal though github.com/GaurangTandon/ChemMarkdownForChemSE

do you have suggestions for how the keybindings could be improved?

I don't know... I think there's a low chance that I would ever use it, because I primarily use Safari on OS X. You will get better suggestions from others.

hmm, then I'll see if I can get it into a userscript, do you use userscripts on Safari?

Yeah, you can. But I suspect the hotkeys also become a problem on OS X.

that can be dealt with, the only issue is the cmd key, which has a different keycode from the ctrl key on windows

People don't often optimise their stuff for OS X Safari, and there's a reason for that, it's because I'm a tiny minority. So, you shouldn't necessarily cater to me

Not initially, at least.

i want my stuff to be as accessible to as many people as possible. on the technical internet, there are people on both sides of the fence. some take the "evolving" approach (aka only favor Chrome). some take "accessible" approach (support even IE10). i happen to fall in the latter group

@orthocresol yeah ofc, in the beginning stages, only focussed on Chrome

I'm cool with that, it's just that I know there are cases where people don't have the time or manpower to make things accessible to everybody, even though they would like to.

right right

alright then, i'm off the site for a week, back to software development, and no editing chem.se posts