Re: [PATCH] org-bibtex.el --- convert between Org headings and bibtex entries

[Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>]

Hi Eric,

"Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:

> Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> writes:
>
>> "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> In an attempt to organize my reading notes, I've written the following
>>> tool which allows both for exporting Org-mode headlines with bibtex
>>> meta-data to bibtex entries, and for reading existing bibtex entries
>>> into Org-mode headings.
>>>
>>> One nice feature of these functions is the ability to check that all
>>> required fields are present in a given headline based on the bibtex type
>>> (e.g., :article, :inproceedings), and prompt for missing fields.
>>>
>>> See the top of the elisp file for more usage information.
>>> https://github.com/eschulte/org-bibtex/blob/master/org-bibtex.el
>>
>> Thanks for announcing this! One note: I believe the name conflicts with
>> a core org-module (org-bibtex.el), which is used to store and open
>> bibtex links.
>>
>
> As one possible solution to this name conflict, I've folded my
> org-bibtex.el into the existing org-bibtex.el in the Org-mode core.  The
> attached patch performs this integration adding the functionality in my
> version of org-bibtex.el into the Org-mode core.
>
> Does this seem like an appropriate addition?

+1 (or maybe +.75 -- see below)

I think this could finally tempt me to move all my bibliographical data
into org-mode files. (I've been keeping all my data in a central bibtex
file and using reftex to generate links to citations.)

My only reservation: modules such as org-bibtex.el, org-gnus.el,
org-wl.el. (i.e., modules that contain the name of another emacs
package) are conventionally reserved for hyperlinks. I have no idea
whether this is a fixed convention, but we might want to ask Bastien or
Carsten. I know the linking features would be untouched by the addition
of this new functionality, but I wonder whether org <-> bibtex
conversion occupies a distinct space.

I can see now how the variables org-bibtex-types and org-bibtex-fields
are a major improvement over bibtex-entry-field-alist, which contains a
whole bunch of redundant field descriptions. This will make it much
easier to configure my bibtex setup.

Best,
Matt