From: Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>
To: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
Cc: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>, Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [ANN] org-bibtex.el --- convert between Org headings and bibtex entries
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:53:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DB4559E.8010309@christianmoe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871v0rzp8v.fsf@gmail.com>
On 4/24/11 4:21 PM, Eric Schulte wrote:
> Matt Lundin<mdl@imapmail.org> writes:
>> (...)
>> Eric, the more I think about this, the more my vote would be to package
>> this new functionality separately.
>>
>> IMO, hyperlinking to external data in bib files is somewhat orthogonal
>> to storing bib data within org files. In other words, the current
>> org-bibtex.el complements bibtex-mode use, whereas the new org-bibtex
>> functions, for the most part, are substitutes for bibtex-mode---i.e.,
>> they re-implement much of its configuration and basic functionality.
>>
>> By packaging the new functionality separately perhaps we could lay the
>> groundwork for internal, backend agnostic bibliographical export and
>> formatting---not unlike the way in which org-contacts.el replaces bbdb.
>>
>
> Alright, I think I agree that separate packaging would be the best way
> forward given the existing conventions wrt linking to functionality
> rather than implementing said functionality.
The *conclusion* (where Eric Schulte's new bibtex functions should go)
is not a big concern to me, but FWIW, the *premise* strikes me as
unnecessarily restrictive.
I submit that, for any non-Org format or application "foo", the module
org-foo.el does not have to be restricted to providing an Org link
type for foo. It seems a sensible namespace for e.g. foo-Org/Org-foo
conversion functions as well. The fact that several modules so named
*at present* only provide link functionality does not, I think, amount
to a convention that this is all they should do.
> By packaging the new functionality separately perhaps we could lay the
> groundwork for internal, backend agnostic bibliographical export and
> formatting---not unlike the way in which org-contacts.el replaces bbdb.
That's a great aim. Still, a future bibliography module (be it
"org-bib", "org-cite" or whatever) could just as well rely, for bits
of bibtex functionality, on some utilities packaged in org-bibtex.
Yours,
Christian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-24 16:48 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
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 [this message]
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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