@Carsten. Thanks for pointing that variable out. I'll experiment. I was encouraged by the fact that even when italics didn't work the way I wanted, the /slashes/ were always still intact. I figured if I got desperate, I could always do a second pass on an export hook, but I'll mess with the variable. How nice that it's flexible. @ Matthew: Thanks for your setup. I'll be glad to poke around with it. @ Sebastian: Matthew's setup is considerably more refined than mine, but so far I've had good sucess with ebib, another BibTeX manager for Emacs. It lets you customize a few citation commands and makes it very easy to snag a quick citation key while writing. So far I write in org-mode and try to arrange it so I never have to look at the LaTeX file. But mine is a thesis, and it's not to the final stages yet. At the moment I still run (xe)latex-bibtex-(xe)latex manually, but that's only because I haven't sat down to customize the org variable to customize the latex command and run bibtex. Scot On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Matthew Lundin wrote: > Hi Sebastian, > > Sebastian Titz writes: > > > Matthew Lundin wrote: > > > >> I am in the same position --- i.e., I use emacs/auctex/org-mode/biblatex > >> in a field in which MS Word is the default option. Many of the things I > >> write have to be converted to doc format at some point. > > > could you elaborate on how you use biblatex with org-mode and auctex, > > since auctex doesn't support biblatex? > > I'll try to keep this brief, since I don't want to talk too much about > AUCTeX in the org-mode forum. > > I've found that AUCTeX and RefTeX work very well with biblatex, since > all biblatex requires is to run latex, then bibtex, then latex again. > > I use the Chicago Manual of Style biblatex package: > > > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-chicago-notes-df/ > > To make this work with AUCTeX, I've created a custom reftex-cite-format > for the citation types I use most often: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > (setq reftex-cite-format > '( > (?c . "\\cite[]{%l}") > (?C . "\\cites[]{%l}") > (?t . "\\citetitle[]{%l}") > (?T . "\\citetitles[]{%l}") > (?a . "\\autocite[]{%l}") > (?A . "\\autocites[]{%l}") > (?h . "\\headlessfullcite[]{%l}") > (?x . "[]{%l}") > (?X . "{%l}") > )) > > (setq reftex-cite-prompt-optional-args t) > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > I've also set the following variable to get the appropriate faces: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > (setq font-latex-match-reference-keywords > '(("cites" "[{") > ("autocite" "[{") > ("autocites" "[{") > ("citetitle" "[{") > ("citetitles" "[{") > ("headlessfullcite" "[{"))) > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > Finally, I've had to hack at a couple of reftex functions to change the > regular expressions that are used to identify citation macros for: > > 1) jumping to the matching entry in the bib file > (reftex-view-crossref) > > 2) generating a bib file from a tex file > (reftex-all-used-citation-keys). > > - This is necessary because the current regexps don't recognize > the plural citation macros (e.g. \cites, \autocites, etc.). > > Unfortunately, these regexps are hardcoded into reftex, so I have to > load the rewritten functions via a reftex-mode-hook. And since Carsten > is no longer the maintainer of RefTeX, it's not quite as easy to get a > customize option for a RefTeX regexp as it is to get one in org-mode. :) > > The whole setup is by no means perfect, but it works fine for me. > > Now, for the org-mode part of the post. I generally use org-mode for > drafting and AUCTeX for revising/polishing and adding formal citations. > > If I plan exporting something quickly from org-mode, I use the following > function for a quick and dirty way to get citation info from my bib > files into my org-mode files. (And, of course, I make heavy use of > org-mode's wonderful footnote features.) > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > (defun my-reftex-citations () > (interactive) > (let ((reftex-cite-format > '( > (?f . "%a. %t. %j, %v, %b. %r: %u, %y. %p.\n") > (?F . "<<%l>>\n\n%a. %t. %j, %v, %b. %r: %u, %y. %p.\n") > (?s . "%a, %t, %y\n") > (?c . "\\cite[]{%l}" > (?l . "[[%l]]\n") > (?L . "%a, %t, %y. [[%l]]\n")))) > (reftex-citation))) > > (define-key text-mode-map (kbd "C-c y") 'my-reftex-citations) > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > If I wanted to export for biblatex directly from org-mode (which I > haven't tried yet), I think I would ignore most of the special > biblatex/Chicago macros and just use the \cite macro inside of footnotes > to make conversion/export to other formats a bit easier. > > Hope this helps. > > Matt > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode >