From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Thomas S. Dye" Subject: Re: [ANN] org-bibtex.el --- convert between Org headings and bibtex entries Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:54:19 -1000 Message-ID: <027A8D96-05AB-452C-87D3-85D90D24AFB1@tsdye.com> References: <87y6357q81.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:48426) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QCSF3-0000Xc-Da for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 03:54:30 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QCSF1-0000G3-P6 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 03:54:29 -0400 Received: from oproxy2-pub.bluehost.com ([67.222.39.60]:49059) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QCSF1-0000Fp-JB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 03:54:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87y6357q81.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Eric Schulte Cc: Org Mode 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/ >