From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: [OT] Don't use BibTeX! (was: Images not showing up in PDF output)
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2014 21:33:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140405213324.5e88c2fa@aga-netbook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ob0fk9lc.fsf@berkeley.edu>
Dnia 2014-04-05, o godz. 09:46:39
Richard Lawrence <richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu> napisał(a):
> I have sometimes run into problems (mostly with BibTeX) when the
Sorry for being off-topic, but I can't resist: *please* *don't* *use*
*BibTeX*. On the scale of "tools that solve problems" vs. "tools that
create problems" (cf. http://xkcd.com/1343/ ;)), it is located on the
far right. (For instance, to be able to customize its bibliography
style, you could (a) give up, (b) use some user-friendly (or not)
front-end, having less power than BibTeX itself (obviously!), or (c)
learn BibTeX's own, very peculiar, stack-based ad-hoc language grown to
describe bibliography styles. Not good. Also, if you're unlucky and
you write in some non-English language, well, you're unlucky with
BibTeX, especially if e.g. your name starts with a non-Latin letter.
Etc.)
Use biblatex instead. It's more modern, it's being supported, it
knowns that there exist things like UTF-8 and non-English languages,
it supports more citation styles etc.
> Best,
> Richard
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Adam Mickiewicz University
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-05 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-05 4:59 Images not showing up in PDF output Mark S.
2014-04-05 9:55 ` Eric S Fraga
2014-04-05 16:46 ` Richard Lawrence
2014-04-05 19:33 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2014-04-07 1:39 ` [OT] Don't use BibTeX! Richard Lawrence
2014-04-07 2:58 ` Thomas S. Dye
2014-04-07 3:50 ` Biblatex and Org [was: [OT] Don't use BibTeX!] Richard Lawrence
2014-04-07 8:34 ` Thomas S. Dye
2014-04-07 15:12 ` Biblatex and Org Richard Lawrence
2014-04-06 18:14 ` Images not showing up in PDF output Mark S.
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