From: Alan L Tyree <alantyree@gmail.com>
To: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: managing articles in my personal library, and their citational material, using org mode instead of bibtex
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 16:37:01 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <528EED7D.9000103@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8738mpjcyl.fsf@gmail.com>
On 22/11/13 15:04, Eric Schulte wrote:
> Alan L Tyree <alantyree@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 20/11/13 17:27, Jambunathan K wrote:
>>> Alan L Tyree <alantyree@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> What I mean is to enter something like \cite{mann82} in the text and
>>>> have it spit out (Mann 1982) in each and every export as well as
>>>> constructing an entry for the bibliography.
>>> (For benefit of others)
>>>
>>> ox-jabref.el and JabRef can spit things out in different formats. I
>>>
>>> I have added support for the odt backend. But I have fleshed out the
>>> basic details so that it could be re-targeted for HTML or Plain Ascii
>>> export.
>>>
>>> ----------------
>>>
>>> Often the problem is that the author is stuck with a given DB and tool
>>> and is unwilling to let go of investments that he has made in that
>>> specific tool. (This is perfectly understandable.)
>> Hi Jambu,
>> This is a bit cryptic. It seems to me that it is relatively easy to
>> change DB and tools. I currently keep all my references in a bibtex
>> DB, but there are plenty of conversion tools. The real problem is
>> finding something that works.
>>
>> I still find Org mode a bit frustrating in this context. In the above
>> quote I say "something like \cite", but I don't really care what the
>> entry looks like as long as it can retrieve information from a DB and
>> construct the correct text reference and the correct bibliography
>> entry across all exports.
>>
>> Is there such a DB and tool?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Alan
>>
> Checkout ox-bibtex.el in contrib used in combination with either ebib or
> org-bibtex-extras.el.
Thanks Eric - I'll have a look.
Cheers,
Alan
>
> Best,
>
--
Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-22 5:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-19 1:40 managing articles in my personal library, and their citational material, using org mode instead of bibtex Christopher W. Ryan
2013-11-19 8:28 ` Ian Barton
2013-11-19 16:25 ` Eric Schulte
2013-11-20 2:48 ` Alan L Tyree
2013-11-20 3:37 ` Eric Schulte
2013-11-20 6:16 ` Alan L Tyree
2013-11-20 6:27 ` Jambunathan K
2013-11-21 21:14 ` Alan L Tyree
2013-11-22 4:04 ` Eric Schulte
2013-11-22 5:37 ` Alan L Tyree [this message]
2013-11-25 10:06 ` Jambunathan K
2013-11-20 16:52 ` Richard Lawrence
2013-11-21 22:00 ` Eric Schulte
2013-11-22 4:03 ` Eric Schulte
2013-11-23 0:06 ` Richard Lawrence
2013-11-19 10:41 ` Karl Voit
2013-11-25 18:29 ` John Kitchin
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2013-11-21 0:49 Jorge A. Alfaro Murillo
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