[referencer] Experience when using referencer for large libraries

[John Spray]

On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 17:54 +0100, Claudius Wilhelms wrote:
> Referencer is working quite good. When importing 1000+ files "at one
> click", it crashed a few times, but I think that is a unusual special
> case.
> I'm _VERY_HAPPY_ with referencer, but I quickly realised that for
> organising whole libraries, two additional features would be great: 

Did you get a crash dialog when it crashed?  Reports of such things are
appreciated.
> 
> 1.)
> mass-editing of bibtex fields 
> Inspired from these nifty ID3-tag renaming tools for mp3s, I would
> highly appreciate such a function for bibtex editing as well.

Mmm, for bulk-setting journal/author this can be useful.  Patches
welcome.

> For example, I came back from a polymer conference with 20
> presentations that were held there on my laptop.
> I added the universal tag "polymer" for these documents easily. But
> How can I separate them from my other polymer-related documents ?

I would expect you to have one tag called polymer, another called
"PolymerConf07", and those from the conference would have both tags,
while other polymer docs would only have the first.


> 2.) Multiple instances of tags
> This can be found in f-spot and allows you to realize a nice
> tag-structure easily.

I'm not sure what you mean.  You already get multiple tags on one
document.

John