Re: managing articles in my personal library, and their citational material, using org mode instead of bibtex

[Alan L Tyree <alantyree@gmail.com>]

On 20/11/13 17:27, Jambunathan K wrote:
> Alan L Tyree <alantyree@gmail.com> writes:
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>> What I mean is to enter something like \cite{mann82} in the text and
>> have it spit out (Mann 1982) in each and every export as well as
>> constructing an entry for the bibliography.
> (For benefit of others)
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> ox-jabref.el and JabRef can spit things out in different formats.  I
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> I have added support for the odt backend.  But I have fleshed out the
> basic details so that it could be re-targeted for HTML or Plain Ascii
> export.
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> Often the problem is that the author is stuck with a given DB and tool
> and is unwilling to let go of investments that he has made in that
> specific tool.  (This is perfectly understandable.)
Hi Jambu,
This is a bit cryptic. It seems to me that it is relatively easy to 
change DB and tools. I currently keep all my references in a bibtex DB, 
but there are plenty of conversion tools. The real problem is finding 
something that works.

I still find Org mode a bit frustrating in this context. In the above 
quote I say "something like \cite", but I don't really care what the 
entry looks like as long as it can retrieve information from a DB and 
construct the correct text reference and the correct bibliography entry 
across all exports.

Is there such a DB and tool?

Cheers,
Alan

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