Don't have much bandwidth where i am on vacation, but for humanists a more
robust and reproducible export to odt and html is org's main weakness, I
think. Zotxt is great but takes a bit if setting up, and of course zotero
refa are less portable than bibtex libraries. Moving to org-ref probably
makes sense but lack of built-in odt support makes that a bit intimidating,
esp for a zotero user whose bibtex setup is a little inflexible.

I hope you post your slides!

M

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 09:52 John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> (personal bias warning;) I think org-ref+helm-bibtex is a best in class
> solution to citation management for org-mode/LaTeX users. It provides
> functional cite links that connect to web of science, scopus, pubmed,
> and others. It provides utilities to download bibtex and org-bibtex
> entries from a doi, and also to download the pdf if it knows how. It
> also provides a lot of bibtex utilities to change title cases, etc... It
> provides some limited support for export to other formats like html, but
> that is an area that certainly could be improved, as well as support for
> other formats. It would be nice to consider expanding the bibliography
> database formats supported (this would also require expanding the export
> code).
>
> There is a cite element that has been developed in org-mode that may one
> day supercede the link based approach that org-ref uses. Much of the
> functionality of org-ref could be retained when that happens.
>
> What would make it even better? Integrated smart search, e.g. find other
> documents that cite a reference, find similar documents/references based
> on what you have written.
>
> Most important maybe: figure out how to merge narrative text in version
> control! I don't want to write a sentence per line just to use the
> default merge with git. I really want a word-based track-change like
> diff, and merge.
>
> Erik Hetzner writes:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am going to be giving a talk on how Emacs can help support scholars,
> > especially those who are using plain text and doing reproducible
> > research, at “Emacsconf 2015” in San Francisco this Saturday (the
> > 29th).
> >
> > I have done some work on managing references using Emacs & pandoc, but
> > what I’d like to focus on in this talk is why Emacs is a great tool
> > for scholarly writers (both scientists and humanists) and what Emacs
> > developers should be concentrating on to make it an even better tool
> > for the scholarly community.
> >
> > I’m wondering if you any of you might have any suggestions about what
> > you would like to see Emacs do better to support the scholarly writing
> > community.
> >
> > Thanks for any help you can provide!
> >
> > best, Erik Hetzner
>
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