From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Lawrence Subject: Re: State of the art in citations Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 08:36:37 -0700 Message-ID: <87a9b4p2pm.fsf@berkeley.edu> References: <87ppk4ni6i.fsf@gaillac.origami> <262D846B-055E-420B-B1A7-8A10820A8896@agrarianresearch.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48559) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WfA75-0005oA-TR for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2014 11:38:37 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WfA70-0007jn-7l for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2014 11:38:31 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:48371) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WfA70-0007jd-19 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2014 11:38:26 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WfA6y-0004r5-Ty for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:38:24 +0200 Received: from c-67-164-45-159.hsd1.ca.comcast.net ([67.164.45.159]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:38:24 +0200 Received: from richard.lawrence by c-67-164-45-159.hsd1.ca.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:38:24 +0200 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: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Cc: Vikas Rawal Lists Hi Vikas, Vikas Rawal Lists writes: > On 26-Apr-2014, at 6:56 pm, Clément B. wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >>> - Should I use biblatex instead of bibtex? >> >> You should. It is very powerful and straightforward. The manual >> is great. > > Is the choice so clearcut? > > A lot of bibliographic databases provide bibtex-compatible citation > information. How do you deal with that, when you shift to biblatex? As I recently learned (thanks to this list!), biblatex supports .bib files. So switching to biblatex is not an issue from this perspective: you can continue to drop bibtex-compatible citation information into your .bib file and use it with biblatex. If ox-bibtex reads .bib files, that should continue to work, too. Best, Richard