From: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
To: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [ANN] org-bibtex.el --- convert between Org headings and bibtex entries
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:54:19 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <027A8D96-05AB-452C-87D3-85D90D24AFB1@tsdye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y6357q81.fsf@gmail.com>
Hi Eric,
This could be very useful and a significant enhancement to Org-mode
for note taking. With it, library time can be spent almost entirely
within Org-mode, capturing bibliographic information and taking
reading notes. It feels like the right level of functionality--
lightweight and easy to use, with lots of prompting material.
I created an entry with org-bibtex-create and then another with org-
bibtex-read/write. When I ran org-bibtex, only the second entry was
exported. Also, the org-bibtex-read/write process mangled the bibtex
entry a bit, so the resulting .bib file wasn't useful. Note the
addition of {} around the publisher and year, and the truncation of
multi-line entries.
Can I suggest some changes?
1) In our multi-user environment, where several authors are
contributing to a master bibtex file, we depend on the key generating
algorithm of bibtex-mode to help weed out duplicate entries. This
isn't 100% effective, but it catches lots of duplicates and saves us
time. Would it be possible to lift this mechanism and use it in org-
bibtex to generate the CUSTOM_ID?
2) It might be better to use the (generated) key as the Org headline,
instead of the title. Titles can be longer than I find comfortable
for an Org-mode headline, whereas keys are usually about the right
length.
3) org-bibtex-cite seems like a natural next step, especially if it
offers a list of keys in the Org-mode buffer.
Here are the details of my test run:
Existing bibtex entry:
@Book{tuggle94:_cultur_resour_naval_air_station_barber_point,
author = {H. David Tuggle and M. J. Tomonari-Tuggle and
D. Colt Denfeld},
title = {Cultural Resources of Naval Air Station, Barbers
Point: Summary, Assessment, and Inventory Research
Design: Task 1b: Archaeological Research Services
for the Proposed Cleanup, Disposal, and Reuse of
Naval Air Station, Barbers Point, O`ahu, Hawai`i},
publisher = iarii,
year = 1994,
series = {Prepared for Belt Collins Hawaii},
address = {Honolulu},
month = {December}}
Org-mode tree:
* Schulte bibtex
** A journal title
:PROPERTIES:
:type: article
:AUTHOR: A. N. Author
:JOURNAL: Journal of Statistical Software
:YEAR: 1998
:CUSTOM_ID: author_10:article
:END:
** {Cultural Resources of Naval Air Station, Barbers
:PROPERTIES:
:TYPE: book
:CUSTOM_ID: tuggle94:_cultur_resour_naval_air_station_barber_point
:MONTH: December}
:ADDRESS: Honolulu
:SERIES: Prepared for Belt Collins Hawaii
:YEAR: 1994
:PUBLISHER: iarii
:AUTHOR: {H. David Tuggle and M. J. Tomonari-Tuggle and
:END:
Org-bibtex output:
@book{tuggle94:_cultur_resour_naval_air_station_barber_point,
author={{H. David Tuggle and M. J. Tomonari-Tuggle and},
title={{Cultural Resources of Naval Air Station, Barbers},
publisher={iarii},
year={1994},
series={Prepared for Belt Collins Hawaii},
address={Honolulu},
month={December}}
}
hth,
Tom
On Apr 19, 2011, at 1:52 PM, Eric Schulte wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In an attempt to organize my reading notes, I've written the following
> tool which allows both for exporting Org-mode headlines with bibtex
> meta-data to bibtex entries, and for reading existing bibtex entries
> into Org-mode headings.
>
> One nice feature of these functions is the ability to check that all
> required fields are present in a given headline based on the bibtex
> type
> (e.g., :article, :inproceedings), and prompt for missing fields.
>
> See the top of the elisp file for more usage information.
> https://github.com/eschulte/org-bibtex/blob/master/org-bibtex.el
>
> Cheers -- Eric
>
> --
> Eric Schulte
> http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-20 7:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-19 23:52 [ANN] org-bibtex.el --- convert between Org headings and bibtex entries Eric Schulte
2011-04-20 1:01 ` Jeff Horn
2011-04-20 1:13 ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-20 7:54 ` Thomas S. Dye [this message]
2011-04-20 13:25 ` Matt Lundin
2011-04-20 14:29 ` Matt Lundin
2011-04-20 19:59 ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-20 19:00 ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-21 16:36 ` Thomas S. Dye
2011-04-21 21:06 ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-23 16:23 ` Thomas S. Dye
2011-04-23 22:59 ` Alan E. Davis
2011-04-24 0:40 ` Matt Lundin
2011-04-24 14:21 ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-24 16:53 ` Christian Moe
2011-04-25 13:19 ` Matt Lundin
2011-04-25 13:34 ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-25 15:15 ` Matt Lundin
2011-04-27 22:16 ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-24 0:52 ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-24 4:49 ` Alan E. Davis
2011-04-24 14:29 ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-24 20:40 ` Alan E. Davis
2011-04-25 13:31 ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-20 9:26 ` Christian Moe
2011-04-20 20:15 ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-20 12:10 ` Matt Lundin
2011-04-20 20:16 ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-22 14:05 ` [PATCH] " Eric Schulte
2011-04-22 15:45 ` Matt Lundin
2011-04-23 0:03 ` Matt Lundin
2011-04-23 14:07 ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-23 22:46 ` Matt Lundin
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