Hi Alan,

(Of course you are using the bibliography/bibtex module here which is currently being re-implemented but is not quite production ready...)

I didn't know that. Am looking forward to using it, thank you.

Most bibliography styles ask that the url (or doi) appear at the end of the list rendering. This could be made active when list interaction is enabled.

I'd've thought that parameter order shouldn't matter. That is, it should be possible to insert the doi anywhere in the entry. (Typically, name-value pairs are read into a dictionary prior to interpreting, which has a number of benefits, including order independence.)

Normally, clicking on the list entry itself (not the url or doi) will like back to the (first) citation of this work in the text. You would

That is useful. Yet, if the same reference is cited multiple times, then clicking the entry would return the reader to the first reference, which is probably undesirable if they were at a different point in the document. The ability to disable such a feature is useful.

like, rather, that the title links to the url. (Why just the title rather than the entire entry, by the way?) This is an issue that we need to make configurable somehow. I will take note.

For this particular document, internal hyperlinks (cross-references) are blue and external hyperlinks are orange. Consider the following image: http://i.stack.imgur.com/CGtQ9.png It'd be nice if just the number within the brackets (i.e., 1) could be set as the hyperlink back to the first reference (e.g., as a blue hyperlink). (Again, the behaviour for citing the same reference in multiple locations needs to be addressed. If it was [1, 2, 3], then each number could cross-reference the correct back-reference in the document. But this is a digression and probably not a terribly useful feature.) Reasons for title links, and not the whole entry, include: - Aesthetics. Having the entire bibliography in orange would look terrible. - Identifiable. The user would know that the text is an external hyperlink, rather than thinking the entire bibliography was mistakenly coloured orange. - Multiple links. It should be possible to link to: the publisher, author home pages (or email addresses), and conference web sites. If the entire entry was a single link, it'd not be possible to have separate links for different items. Stylistically, for example, it should be possible to set "Guido Schryen" to an orange hyperlink and have a small, hyperlinked envelope beside his name that links to his email address (for digital copies; hard copies would not include the envelope, but might write the email address in parenthesis or, optionally, not display anything at all). Here are a few scenarios: @article{schryen@security, author = {Schryen, Guido}, title = {Software security}, doi = {http://...}, % adds a hyperlink to the title author_schryen = {http://...}, % hyperlinks to author's home page } @article{schryen@security, author = {Schryen, Guido}, title = {Software security}, doi = {http://...}, % adds a hyperlink to the title author_schryen = {http://...}, % hyperlinks name to author's home page author_schryen = {mailto:gschryen@domain.com}, % envelope icon hyperlink } @article{schryen@security, author = {Schryen, Guido}, title = {Software security}, author_schryen = {mailto:gschryen@domain.com}, % hyperlinks name, no envelope } If the authors have two (or more) identical last names, they can be matched in listed order of the author entry: author_schryen_1 = {http://...} author_schryen_2 = {mailto:gschryen@domain.com}, It can be time-consuming to contact the author of a paper. Providing the ability to link back to the author (in some form) is a courteous, expedient convenience.