John,

this does look very powerful.  Do you see a path forward that would help
add zotero support to org-ref, probably using Erik's zotxt library?  Does
that seem like a worthwhile goal for you?

Matt


On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 6:01 PM, John Kitchin <johnrkitchin@gmail.com>
wrote:

> With the latest version of org-ref, I can automate export from org
> through markdown to docx via pandoc like this:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
> (defun ox-export-to-docx-and-open ()
>  "Export the current org file as a docx via markdown."
>  (interactive)
> (let* ((bibfile (expand-file-name (car (org-ref-find-bibliography))))
>        ;; this is probably a full path
>        (current-file (buffer-file-name))
>        (basename (file-name-sans-extension current-file))
>        (md-file (concat basename ".md"))
>        (docx-file (concat basename ".docx")))
>
>   (when (file-exists-p docx-file) (delete-file docx-file))
>   (org-export-to-file 'md md-file)
>   (shell-command (format
>                   "pandoc -s -S --bibliography=%s %s -o %s"
>                   bibfile md-file docx-file))
>   (org-open-file docx-file '(16))))
> #+END_SRC
>
>
> this works because i defined a markdown format function that converts
> the cite link to pandoc format on export. I could avoid the markdown
> translation if I could do an org to org export that would do that. With
> a little work we could define file tags like:
>
> #+PANDOC_CSL: some-csl-file
>
> that would also get passed to the pandoc command to determine the style
> of the citation and bibliography.
>
>
>
>
> Matt Price writes:
>
> > i think I may have seen it these on the list at one point, but it's very
> > helpful to be reminded.
> >
> > I do think that the default fonts, etc., are a bit of an acquired taste
> for
> > humanists; and I've gotten used to using custom styles in html & odt for
> > size & placing of images; but even without following the instructions
> > carefully, export seems to work, which is pretyt amazing!
> >
> > Vikas recommends involving pandoc manually, as Erik H. has also suggested
> > to me; I would like to aovid doing that if possible, but if it has to be
> > done i guess I can find some way of automating it.
> >
> > There are clearly a lot of options in this space; I am still interested
> in
> > using Zotero if I can, so will continue working with zotxt, but hopefully
> > in a way that gets me closer to other people's usage patterns.
> >
> > thanks,
> > Matt
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Vicente Vera <vicentemvp@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello. Interesting thread!
> >> Matt, have you read Vikas guide to writing papers with Org?
> >> https://github.com/vikasrawal/orgpaper
> >> From my point of view, using LaTeX through Org isn't difficult at all.
> >> You'll need to tweak a few things (packages, figures, etc.), but it's
> >> definitely easier for a beginner that starting a LaTeX document from
> >> scratch.
> >> Here's another article about writing LaTeX (social science) papers:
> >> https://github.com/kjhealy/workflow-paper
> >>
>
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