From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Lundin Subject: Re: Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2015 08:25:24 -0600 Message-ID: <87y4dbhanf.fsf@fastmail.fm> References: <87wpt1yj5k.fsf@berkeley.edu> <87d1uqyiva.fsf@berkeley.edu> <8737vkidgl.fsf@fastmail.fm> <565F9DB9.90600@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44109) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4Up7-00052m-Tq for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2015 09:25:30 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4Up3-0002mV-T5 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2015 09:25:29 -0500 Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:50485) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4Up3-0002m6-Kj for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2015 09:25:25 -0500 In-Reply-To: <565F9DB9.90600@gmail.com> (Christian Wittern's message of "Thu, 3 Dec 2015 09:41:13 +0800") 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: Christian Wittern Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Christian Wittern writes: > On 2015-12-03 8:27, Matt Lundin wrote: >> Given these complexities, it seems that if we went the zotero route we >> could end up with a fairly large installation chain (firefox, zotero, >> zotxt, plugin for zotero). And this would require installing items from >> multiple, heterogeneous sources. > I guess it depends on where you come from. For those who already maintain > the bibliography in Zotero this is not much of an extra load. Yes, I think this is the key point. For those of us who maintain bib databases within emacs, importing in zotero is problematic (overhead, potential of data loss, etc.). >> As a GNU/Linux user, I would find installing zotero and all the add-ons >> messier and more cumbersome than installing pandoc and/or node-js (were >> we to use citeproc-js) from the command line. > Maybe the best situation would be to support both the pandoc and zotero > toolchain as backends and let the user decide what to use. If the result is > in both cases org-formated citations, that should not make it too difficult, no? That sounds right. Ideally, org-cite could support zotero *and* bibtex users (i.e., gui and text based/command line) solutions. Matt