Latex-Suite provides an easy way to insert references to bibliographic
entries. Pressing <F9> when the cursor is
placed inside a partially completed \cite command
will split open a new window (named __OUTLINE__)
which contains a formatted and syntax highlighted list of all bibtex
entries found. For example, pressing <F9>
after typing \ref{ should present you with a window
which looks something like this:
Article [dickinson:science:99]
"Wing rotation and aerodynamic basis of insect flight"
M. H. Dickinson and F-O. Lehman and S. P. Sane
In Science, 1999
Article [ellington:84:part1]
"The Aerodynamics of Hovering Insect Flight. I. The Quasi-Steady Analysis"
Ellington, C P
In Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 1984
Article [ellington:84:part2]
"The Aerodynamics of Hovering Insect Flight. II. Morphological Parameters"
Ellington, C P
In Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 1984
You can easily jump from one entry to another using the
'n' and 'p' keys (to go to the
next / previous entry respectively).
You can also filter out a subset of the bibtex entries by pressing
'f' while in this window. Doing this presents the
following prompt:
Field acronyms: (`:let g:Tex_EchoBibFields = 0` to avoid this message)
[t] title [a] author [b] booktitle
[j] journal [y] year [p] bibtype
(you can also enter the complete field name)
Enter filter criterion [field<space>value]:
At the prompt, type
a ellington
Notice that the letter a is an acronym for author
according to the prompt above. Therefore this filter only shows those
bibtex entries whose author field contains the text
ellington. You can keep narrowing your selection by
repeatedly filtering the results. If you would like to remove all the
filters and see all entries again, press 'a', which removes
all the filters.
You can also sort the bibtex entries based on a field. To do this, press 's'. This will present you with a prompt like in the case of the filter and you are asked to choose a field. In this case, you would type in a single character. This sorts the entries according to that field.
<F9> will also work in a similar way after any
command which contains the word cite in it. For
example, pressing <F9> will also work with
\citenum etc.
The following logic is applied to find out which bibliographic entries are included in the completion.
Firstly, if the present file has a master-file defined for it, then Latex-Suite will perform the following steps on that file instead of on the current file.
First, the file is scanned for a \bibliography
command or a \addbibresource command.
To explain better, assume that a command
\bibliography{file1,file2} is found
in the present file. For each bibliography file, say
file1, Latex-Suite first tries to see if a
.bib file, file1.bib can be
found. If so, it will scan it for bib-keys of the form
@BOOK{ etc., and add these searches to the
completion list. If a .bib file cannot be found,
then it will try to see if file1.bbl can be found.
If so, Latex-Suite will search it for bib-keys of the form
\bibitem and add these to the completion list.
You can set the location where Latex-Suite will search for
.bib and .bbl files using the
|Tex_BIBINPUTS|
variable.
If a \bibliography command is not found, then Latex-Suite
tries to scan the present file for a
\begin{thebibliography} environment. If found,
Latex-Suite searches the present file for bib-keys of the form
\bibitem.