citekey in item info pane for currently opened pdf in pdf viewer

yogesh.yadav · August 27, 2022

I think it might be useful to be able to see the citekey for the currently open pdf in pdf viewer itself. Currently, we need to go back to the main overview to see the citekey.

emilianoeheyns · August 28, 2022

Can you mock up a screenshot of what you'd want to see?

mjthoraval · August 29, 2022

From the main window "My Library", Better BibTeX adds the citekey at the top of the metadata, in the Info tab of the right-hand side Item Pane, as Citation Key: ---.

When you open a PDF file in a Zotero PDF Viewer tab, you also get the metadata in the Info tab of the right-hand side Item Pane. But that Info tab does not seem to inherit the same settings as the Info tab from the "My Library". For example, the font size in there is different:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/98932/shortcuts-for-changing-the-font-size

So the citekey display disappears from the Info pane when you are in a PDF Viewer tab.
I think he is asking to keep the citekey display feature in the Info pane visible on the side of a PDF file viewer tab. I also think it would be useful to keep that Info tab consistent between My Library and the PDF Viewer.

emilianoeheyns · August 29, 2022

@dstillman is this generated by contextPane.js?

dstillman · August 29, 2022

Yes.

_yncko_ · November 10, 2022

+1

emilianoeheyns · November 10, 2022

Please open an issue for this on github, that's how I track requests. I had totally forgotten about this.

mjthoraval · November 10, 2022

Is it this one?
https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-better-bibtex/issues/2176

emilianoeheyns · November 10, 2022

Yep forgot about that one too -- but joining that issue or even opening a new one is preferable to "+1"ing things here.

I'll get to it eventually, but I need to sort out some prep for Z7 first.