From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joost Kremers Subject: Re: Re: zotero (or mendeley) integration with org Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:34:26 +0200 Message-ID: <20110330143426.GC4557@darkstar> References: <26045.1301154464@rgc.damtp.cam.ac.uk> <87aageppnf.fsf@fastmail.fm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56300 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4wTs-0001BX-Qa for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:34:45 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4wTr-0007jN-Nu for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:34:44 -0400 Received: from amailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.18]:46283) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4wTr-0007hv-IZ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:34:43 -0400 Received: from 77-20-0-250-dynip.superkabel.de ([77.20.0.250] helo=darkstar) by mailer.gwdg.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4wTp-0000Io-3s for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:34:41 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:54:58AM +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: > I wonder if it would help to use orgmode for bibtex *.bib files. I think > comments can be included in those files. yes. there is a @comment command, but bibtex ignores everything that's not inside an @, @string or @preamble command, so that you could create an org file that contains bibtex entries and use that as your bibliography file. however, i don't know if biblatex+biber is equally forgiving. > Or does it also work the other way > around, that any file can be used as a bibtex source database? in essence yes, as long as it's a text file and contains valid bibtex entries. (note that bibtex isn't unicode-aware; i have no idea how bibtex reacts to files containing unicode characters in text it's ignoring.) -- Joost Kremers Life has its moments