From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Kitchin Subject: Re: emacs & org mode for scholars questions Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 09:51:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: <55dbff57.2491420a.591b6.5304@mx.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37843) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUEdt-0003RW-EJ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 09:52:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUEdo-0003Dn-FQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 09:52:01 -0400 Received: from mail-qg0-x22d.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c04::22d]:33061) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUEdo-0003D7-Aj for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 09:51:56 -0400 Received: by qgeh99 with SMTP id h99so47097199qge.0 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 06:51:55 -0700 (PDT) In-reply-to: <55dbff57.2491420a.591b6.5304@mx.google.com> 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: Erik Hetzner Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org (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 =E2=80=9CEmacsconf 2015=E2=80=9D in San Francisco this Satur= day (the > 29th). > > I have done some work on managing references using Emacs & pandoc, but > what I=E2=80=99d like to focus on in this talk is why Emacs is a great to= ol > 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=E2=80=99m 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 -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu