* Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration
@ 2014-09-08 20:50 Christoph Groth
2014-09-09 9:13 ` Christoph Groth
2014-09-09 16:34 ` Thomas S. Dye
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From: Christoph Groth @ 2014-09-08 20:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Hello,
I’d like to keep my library of scientific articles in orgmode, along
with notes, links to external files (mostly PDF), etc. This has been
discussed repeatedly on this list, for example in the recent thread
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/78983.
Most solutions seem to be based around a central BibTeX file and take
advantage of RefTeX to navigate between citations to articles (in LaTeX
or org files), the BibTeX file, related entries in an org-file, and
linked external files. Often the key that connects the various items is
a unique label (in LastnameYear format, for example). This key is used
as label when citing and in BibTeX, as orgmode CUSTOM_ID, and as the
filename of an associated external file.
This seems to work well for people who have complete control over the
articles they write. But what about articles with co-authors? These
must be self-contained, so one needs a separate BibTeX file for each
article project. Let’s say that a co-author adds a new reference to a
common project, but the cited paper is already in my database under a
different label. Maybe that very paper is already cited in an older
article with different co-authors using a different \cite label?
Does anyone have a solution that handles such cases nicely? Perhaps
something along these lines: My (own, i.e. controlled by myself) library
of articles lives in one/several org files. Each entry there contains
links to external files, URLs, DOIs, etc. and enough information to
create a BibTeX record. (Such entries could be generated almost
automatically from .bib files found on the internet.) A custom Emacs
function allows to create BibTeX records for use in project-specific
.bib-files from the orgfile-entries. Now the last missing piece is to
connect things also in the other direction: allow to jump to the related
org-entry for a paper from a \cite{} in a paper, even if the reference
has been added to the .bib file by a colleague.
This last piece is the most difficult to realize. It would require
either a rather smart search, or a robust CUSTOM_ID (Perhaps
LastnameYearPagenr would be unique and robust enough?).
I’m interested in discussing these issues.
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* Re: Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration
2014-09-08 20:50 Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration Christoph Groth
@ 2014-09-09 9:13 ` Christoph Groth
2014-09-09 10:48 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-09-09 16:34 ` Thomas S. Dye
1 sibling, 1 reply; 16+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Groth @ 2014-09-09 9:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Hi again,
I’m replying to myself, as I think I’ve found a possible solution
to my
problem.
Most publications have some kind of unique ID that can be present
in
BibTeX: a DOI number, a ISBN, a preprint ID, or an URL. One could
use
one these fields as an org-id unique ID for the publication’s
org-mode-entry. (If several such fields are present, priorities
could
be used to choose one.) Then, org-id can be used to find article
entries by unique ID.
This way, even if a reference has been added to a project-specific
.bib-file by a collaborator (with some label of his choice), it
should
be possible to find the relevant org-mode-entry if the paper is
already
anywhere in the library. In the worst case, a missing DOI id will
have
to be added to the .bib-file-entry.
The org entry on the article would contain links and notes. The
BibTeX
data could be kept in a :BIBTEX: drawer.
Any comments?
Christoph
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* Re: Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration
2014-09-09 9:13 ` Christoph Groth
@ 2014-09-09 10:48 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-09-09 11:40 ` Christoph Groth
2014-09-09 20:25 ` John Kitchin
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From: Thorsten Jolitz @ 2014-09-09 10:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Christoph Groth <christoph@grothesque.org> writes:
Hi,
> Any comments?
do you have a function that automatically fetches bibtex entries for
books from the web, given some info (title, year, author or so)?
--
cheers,
Thorsten
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* Re: Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration
2014-09-09 10:48 ` Thorsten Jolitz
@ 2014-09-09 11:40 ` Christoph Groth
2014-09-09 12:18 ` Vikas Rawal
2014-09-09 20:25 ` John Kitchin
1 sibling, 1 reply; 16+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Groth @ 2014-09-09 11:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Thorsten Jolitz wrote:
> do you have a function that automatically fetches bibtex entries for
> books from the web, given some info (title, year, author or so)?
I haven’t yet started to manage literature with org mode, so I do not
have anything so far.
It’s usually easy to find BibTeX records on the web. For books and
articles in my field (physics) google scholar works quite fine. For
articles only, arXiv offers powerful search capabilities.
It shouldn’t be too difficult to write a “capture” function in emacs
that turns such records into entries in an org file. That would be
automatic enough for me.
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* Re: Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration
2014-09-09 11:40 ` Christoph Groth
@ 2014-09-09 12:18 ` Vikas Rawal
2014-09-09 12:24 ` Fabrice Popineau
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From: Vikas Rawal @ 2014-09-09 12:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christoph Groth; +Cc: org-mode mailing list
>
> It shouldn’t be too difficult to write a “capture” function in emacs
> that turns such records into entries in an org file. That would be
> automatic enough for me.
>
There is bibretrieve (https://github.com/pzorin/bibretrieve) and bibfetch (https://github.com/dschoepe/bibfetch/blob/master/bibfetch.el).
Vikas
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* Re: Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration
2014-09-09 12:18 ` Vikas Rawal
@ 2014-09-09 12:24 ` Fabrice Popineau
2014-09-09 12:48 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-09-09 14:22 ` Samuel Loury
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From: Fabrice Popineau @ 2014-09-09 12:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Vikas Rawal; +Cc: Christoph Groth, org-mode mailing list
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I have written a couple of functions to export the Qiqqa library format to
Org if anybody is interested.
Qiqqa has been much more eager and acute to find online references to all
my pdfs papers.
Fabrice
2014-09-09 14:18 GMT+02:00 Vikas Rawal <vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org>:
> >
> > It shouldn’t be too difficult to write a “capture” function in emacs
> > that turns such records into entries in an org file. That would be
> > automatic enough for me.
> >
>
> There is bibretrieve (https://github.com/pzorin/bibretrieve) and bibfetch
> (https://github.com/dschoepe/bibfetch/blob/master/bibfetch.el).
>
> Vikas
>
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* Re: Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration
2014-09-09 12:18 ` Vikas Rawal
2014-09-09 12:24 ` Fabrice Popineau
@ 2014-09-09 12:48 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-09-09 14:22 ` Samuel Loury
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From: Thorsten Jolitz @ 2014-09-09 12:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Vikas Rawal <vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org> writes:
>>
>> It shouldn’t be too difficult to write a “capture” function in emacs
>> that turns such records into entries in an org file. That would be
>> automatic enough for me.
>>
>
> There is bibretrieve (https://github.com/pzorin/bibretrieve) and
> bibfetch
> (https://github.com/dschoepe/bibfetch/blob/master/bibfetch.el).
cool, can you recommend one of the two?
Just from the repo looks, I would probably go for bibretrieve.
--
cheers,
Thorsten
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* Re: Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration
2014-09-09 12:18 ` Vikas Rawal
2014-09-09 12:24 ` Fabrice Popineau
2014-09-09 12:48 ` Thorsten Jolitz
@ 2014-09-09 14:22 ` Samuel Loury
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From: Samuel Loury @ 2014-09-09 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Vikas Rawal, Christoph Groth; +Cc: org-mode mailing list
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Vikas Rawal <vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org> writes:
> There is bibretrieve (https://github.com/pzorin/bibretrieve) and bibfetch (https://github.com/dschoepe/bibfetch/blob/master/bibfetch.el).
Is it only a result of a google search or did you personally use one of those?
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* Re: Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration
2014-09-08 20:50 Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration Christoph Groth
2014-09-09 9:13 ` Christoph Groth
@ 2014-09-09 16:34 ` Thomas S. Dye
2014-09-09 16:56 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
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From: Thomas S. Dye @ 2014-09-09 16:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christoph Groth; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
Aloha Christoph,
I don't manage my bibliography references in Org mode. I am used to
managing a bibtex database and have never found the need to move
everything to Org.
Christoph Groth <christoph@grothesque.org> writes:
> Most solutions seem to be based around a central BibTeX file and take
> advantage of RefTeX to navigate between citations to articles (in LaTeX
> or org files), the BibTeX file, related entries in an org-file, and
> linked external files. Often the key that connects the various items is
> a unique label (in LastnameYear format, for example). This key is used
> as label when citing and in BibTeX, as orgmode CUSTOM_ID, and as the
> filename of an associated external file.
Bibtex mode has functions for automatic reference key generation:
http://www.jonathanleroux.org/bibtex-mode.html#0630
You can configure this process.
> This seems to work well for people who have complete control over the
> articles they write. But what about articles with co-authors? These
> must be self-contained, so one needs a separate BibTeX file for each
> article project. Let’s say that a co-author adds a new reference to a
> common project, but the cited paper is already in my database under a
> different label. Maybe that very paper is already cited in an older
> article with different co-authors using a different \cite label?
Either a separate bibtex file for each article, or separate bibtex files
for each co-author. A LaTeX document can use any number of bibtex files
per document.
In general, you'll want to have the bibtex file(s) for an article only
contain the references that you'll use in the article, especially if you
intend to distribute the bibtex files as part of a reproducible research
project. There are tools that use the information in your article .tex
files to create this kind of bibtex file from a larger bibtex database.
In my work flow, I have a large legacy bibtex file with about 6,000
references. When I'm writing an article, I create another bibtex file
just for the article. I use ebib to open both the legacy bibtex file
and the article bibtex file and copy from one to the other, which ebib
makes very convenient. Then I autogenerate the reference key in ebib by
pressing 'K'.
hth,
Tom
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* Re: Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration
2014-09-09 16:34 ` Thomas S. Dye
@ 2014-09-09 16:56 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2014-09-09 17:30 ` Rasmus
2014-09-10 10:31 ` Christoph Groth
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From: Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo @ 2014-09-09 16:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Thomas S. Dye writes:
> I don't manage my bibliography references in Org mode. I am
> used to managing a bibtex database and have never found the need
> to move everything to Org.
Same here.
> Bibtex mode has functions for automatic reference key
> generation:
>
> http://www.jonathanleroux.org/bibtex-mode.html#0630
>
> You can configure this process.
You can also download the .bib from Google Scholar or whatever and
then clean the entry, so that your database has the same format.
> Either a separate bibtex file for each article, or separate
> bibtex files for each co-author.
Or better do both...
#+BEGIN_SRC latex
\bibliography{/home/you/references/articles.bib}
% \bibliography{/home/collaborator_1/references/articles.bib}
% \bibliography{/home/collaborator_2/references/articles.bib}
...
\bibliography{references}
#+END_SRC
When a collaborator_i is working on the file she/he comments the
first line and uncomments the i-th line AND everybody runs
reftex-create-bibtex-file (or copy paste the new references for
the unfortunate non-emacs user) after adding new references and
finishing editing. Everybody shares a current version of the .tex
file and the references.bib file.
> In general, you'll want to have the bibtex file(s) for an
> article only contain the references that you'll use in the
> article, especially if you intend to distribute the bibtex files
> as part of a reproducible research project.
Note that when the article is ready the references.bib is the only
thing you need to compile, since it has all the references, so you
erase the all the other \bibliography's
> There are tools that use the information in your article .tex
> files to create this kind of bibtex file from a larger bibtex
> database.
Yes, emacs via reftex-create-bibtex-file =)
Best,
--
Jorge.
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* Re: Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration
2014-09-09 16:56 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
@ 2014-09-09 17:30 ` Rasmus
2014-09-10 10:31 ` Christoph Groth
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From: Rasmus @ 2014-09-09 17:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) writes:
> Thomas S. Dye writes:
>
>> I don't manage my bibliography references in Org mode. I am
>> used to managing a bibtex database and have never found the need
>> to move everything to Org.
>
> Same here.
Me too. I use the format
./literature
./literature/article1/
./literature/article1/article1.pdf
./literature/article1/article1.bib ← one entry
./literature/article1/article1.org ← notes
...
I collect all bib files to create the master bibfile. I also generate
a nicer overview.org → overview.html for easy search, though most of
the time reftex is enough. I then use reftex to cite access the
master bib file.
>> There are tools that use the information in your article .tex
>> files to create this kind of bibtex file from a larger bibtex
>> database.
>
> Yes, emacs via reftex-create-bibtex-file =)
That's wicket cool!
—Rasmus
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Enough with the bla bla!
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* Re: Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration
2014-09-09 10:48 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-09-09 11:40 ` Christoph Groth
@ 2014-09-09 20:25 ` John Kitchin
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From: John Kitchin @ 2014-09-09 20:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Thorsten Jolitz; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:
I use https://github.com/jkitchin/jmax/blob/master/org/doi-utils.org
It is some code I wrote to build bibtex entries from a doi, and to
download the pdf if you have access to it.
I load it like this:
(org-babel-load-file "doi-utils.org")
You need to define some variables like:
org-ref-pdf-directory
and some features depend on org-ref
(https://github.com/jkitchin/jmax/blob/master/org/org-ref.org).
I use these pretty often.
> Christoph Groth <christoph@grothesque.org> writes:
>
> Hi,
>
>> Any comments?
>
> do you have a function that automatically fetches bibtex entries for
> books from the web, given some info (title, year, author or so)?
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* Re: Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration
2014-09-09 16:56 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2014-09-09 17:30 ` Rasmus
@ 2014-09-10 10:31 ` Christoph Groth
2014-09-10 14:33 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
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From: Christoph Groth @ 2014-09-10 10:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo wrote:
> Thomas S. Dye writes:
>
>> I don't manage my bibliography references in Org mode. I am used to
>> managing a bibtex database and have never found the need to move
>> everything to Org.
>
> Same here.
My motivation for keeping bibliography in org was to keep all local
information about a paper (including notes and comments) in one place.
This should make it easier to find it.
Meanwhile I found org-bibtex. It seems to implement just what I had in
mind and is even included in orgmode by default. The following function
can be used to save a org-bibtex headline into the kill-ring in bib
format, so that it can be yanked into a project-specific .bib-file:
(defun my-org-bibtex-kill-ring-save-headline ()
(interactive)
(kill-new (org-bibtex-headline)))
>> Either a separate bibtex file for each article, or separate bibtex
>> files for each co-author.
>
> Or better do both...
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC latex
> \bibliography{/home/you/references/articles.bib}
> % \bibliography{/home/collaborator_1/references/articles.bib}
> % \bibliography{/home/collaborator_2/references/articles.bib}
> ...
> \bibliography{references}
>
> #+END_SRC
>
> When a collaborator_i is working on the file she/he comments the first
> line and uncomments the i-th line AND everybody runs
> reftex-create-bibtex-file (or copy paste the new references for the
> unfortunate non-emacs user) after adding new references and finishing
> editing. Everybody shares a current version of the .tex file and the
> references.bib file.
I like to keep papers under version control, and the commenting that you
suggest does not seem to fit this way of working very well.
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* Re: Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration
2014-09-10 10:31 ` Christoph Groth
@ 2014-09-10 14:33 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2014-09-23 13:14 ` Christoph Groth
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From: Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo @ 2014-09-10 14:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Christoph Groth writes:
> My motivation for keeping bibliography in org was to keep all
> local information about a paper (including notes and comments)
> in one place. This should make it easier to find it.
In BibTeX if any field contains an entry that is not part of the
required or optional entries for the field type, that entry is
ignored. So you can do want you want in a single bib file, just
include for every field that you want a "COMMENTS" entry. The
"NOTE" entry is an optional entry for the field type article and
book, so you have to use something else, I use "ANNOTE", since it
is the standard "to be ignored" entry in the emacs BibTeX mode.
> I like to keep papers under version control, and the commenting
> that you suggest does not seem to fit this way of working very
> well.
Then change it to:
#+BEGIN_SRC latex
\include{personal_references}
\bibliography{references.bib}
#+END_SRC
And in personal_references.tex, every user has just one line:
#+BEGIN_SRC latex
\bibliography{the_user_path_to_her/his_references.bib}
#+END_SRC
Add personal_references.tex to the .gitignore file (or the
equivalent if you are not using git), and then you have version
control and no more commenting/uncommenting.
Perhaps I am biased because I learned LaTeX and BibTeX before Org,
but I think that for references BibTeX (plus a little bit of emacs
configuration) has everything I could need. I guess if you are
more used to Org, it might be worth to invest time and come up
with a org-based solution. Please keep us posted, I find this a
very interesting thread.
Cheers,
--
Jorge.
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* Re: Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration
2014-09-10 14:33 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
@ 2014-09-23 13:14 ` Christoph Groth
2014-09-23 13:52 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
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From: Christoph Groth @ 2014-09-23 13:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo wrote:
> Perhaps I am biased because I learned LaTeX and BibTeX before
> Org, but I think that for references BibTeX (plus a little bit
> of emacs configuration) has everything I could need. I guess if
> you are more used to Org, it might be worth to invest time and
> come up with a org-based solution. Please keep us posted, I find
> this a very interesting thread.
This is an update about my experiments so far. Please comment!
This is my current setup:
All the articles (mostly PDF files) are kept in one directory.
There’s also an index.org file in there with headlines like this
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
**
[[file:vazifeh13-electromagnetic_response_weyl.pdf][Electromagnetic
Response of Weyl Semimetals]]
:PROPERTIES:
:TITLE: Electromagnetic Response of Weyl Semimetals
:BTYPE: article
:ID: vazifeh13-electromagnetic_response_weyl
:AUTHOR: Vazifeh, M. M. and Franz, M.
:JOURNAL: Phys. Rev. Lett.
(…)
:END:
Some comments/notes with links and in-line formulas.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
These entries are created by org-bibtex-yank, Emacs’ bibtex is
configured to generate the unique IDs (authorYY-three_first_words
should be sufficiently unique in practice).
This setup works pretty well:
- Adding new articles is easy (there's still ample room for
improvement).
- Opening associated the associated article files and other links
works well.
- It’s easy to add notes (with in-line maths!) and do simple
searches.
- Linking from and to other org files (agenda, project-specific
notes) is possible.
- Additional attachment files (e.g. whiteboard photos from a
discussion) can added with org-attach.
- org-bibtex provides support to put entries into project-specific
bibtex files (org-bibtex-export-to-kill-ring).
- Thanks to the non-random unique IDs, it’s possible to jump to
articles in the library from references in latex files, even if
the key scheme in the latex file differs from the one used in
index.org.
But not all is good:
- Scaling: Some simple tests seem to indicate that org mode
becomes too sluggish with files of about 50k lines. This is a
dimension that could be easily reached over 10 years if the file
grows by 20 lines per day on average. This is not a problem in
the beginning, but if the scheme does not scale to a few
thousand entries, this renders the whole idea way less
interesting.
- More advanced searching is lacking: AFAIK org mode currently
does not support searching for articles of a given author that
also contain a given keyword in the notes.
Any insights about these two problems? Perhaps the scaling could
be managed by splitting index.org into several files (by year for
example). But how to search then? It's probably not a good idea
to add all the bibliography org-files into the agenda. (Is there
a way to have a secondary list of agenda files?) Perhaps the
solution for both problems would be to write a fast commandline
query tool for such org-databases? The tool could even use a fast
cache if necessary.
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* Re: Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration
2014-09-23 13:14 ` Christoph Groth
@ 2014-09-23 13:52 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
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From: Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo @ 2014-09-23 13:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Christoph Groth writes:
> But not all is good:
>
> - Scaling: Some simple tests seem to indicate that org mode
> becomes too sluggish with files of about 50k lines. This is a
> dimension that could be easily reached over 10 years if the
> file grows by 20 lines per day on average. This is not a
> problem in the beginning, but if the scheme does not scale to
> a few thousand entries, this renders the whole idea way less
> interesting.
> - More advanced searching is lacking: AFAIK org mode currently
> does not support searching for articles of a given author that
> also contain a given keyword in the notes.
> Any insights about these two problems? Perhaps the scaling could
> be managed by splitting index.org into several files (by year
> for example). But how to search then? It's probably not a good
> idea to add all the bibliography org-files into the agenda. (Is
> there a way to have a secondary list of agenda files?) Perhaps
> the solution for both problems would be to write a fast
> commandline query tool for such org-databases? The tool could
> even use a fast cache if necessary.
BibTeX provides bibtex-search-entries (in a bib file it is bound
to C-c C-a), which searches for entries with a certain field
matching a regexp. Perhaps you want to take advantage of that
function to direct your org searches to bib files and back. Check
also bibtex-files and bibtex-search-entry-globally, since you
would then be able to split the org files and export into several
bib files if a single bib file proves too much. My current
articles.bib is about 14k lines, and it is not sluggish at all,
but I will have to wait a couple of years until I tell you if a
50k one would be.
Best,
--
Jorge.
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