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From: "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
To: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [ANN] org-bibtex.el --- convert between Org headings and bibtex entries
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:59:54 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oc401xta.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8739ldawcf.fsf@fastmail.fm

Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> writes:

> "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> Just as with auto-generated keys, I wonder whether some of these
> problems might be remedied by plugging into existing bibtex-mode
> functions, especially bibtex-parse-entry and the bibtex string cleanup
> functions. I am always amazed by the ability of bibtex-mode to do the
> right thing when cleaning up entries (e.g., remove delimiters from
> dates, string abbreviations, etc.).
>

Ah, this is a great suggestions and I wish I had thought to look for
existing support before rolling my own versions of these functions.
org-bibtex is now using both of the functions you mentioned above to
good effect.

>
> Also, it might be nice to allow a way to one's existing bibtex entry
> type and field definitions---i.e., bibtex-entry-field-alist.
>

It shouldn't be difficult to add items to the two defvars used by
org-bibtex to manage bibtex entries, namely bibtex-types and
bibtex-fields

Best -- Eric

>
> Best,
> Mat
>

-- 
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-20 20:18 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 [this message]
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
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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