Zotero: import HTML --> org syntax?

Zotero: import HTML --> org syntax?

[Matt Price]

Hi,

so, in my ponderously slow efforts to figure out a decent citation
workflow for Org, I am trying for some modest integration with Zotero,
which is the tool my humanities colleagues are most likely to use.

I keep all of the references for my courses in a Zotero database.
When generating a syllabus, I select a set of references, then copy
them over to my org file.  However, then I have to edit each reference
to give the appropriate italicization; in one of my courses we use APA
citation formats, which I don't really know very well, and sometimes I
make mistakes.

I can set up Zotero so that citations are copied in HTML.  That
preserves the markup I want to keep, but in a format that doesn't work
so well in an org document!  I would like to figure out a way to add
the citations with a single command that converts the HTML to org
markup.

so,

(1) is there already an HTML "import" function that I just don't know about?

(2) is anyone actually using Zotero for citations in org?  or have
people mostly given up and gone over to Bibtex instead?

Thanks very much,

Matt

Re: Zotero: import HTML --> org syntax?

[Rick Frankel]

On 2014-03-28 10:43, Matt Price wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> (1) is there already an HTML "import" function that I just don't know 
> about?

Have you looked at pandoc:

http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/

rick

Re: Zotero: import HTML --> org syntax?

[Ken Mankoff]

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On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> so, in my ponderously slow efforts to figure out a decent citation
> workflow for Org, I am trying for some modest integration with Zotero,
> which is the tool my humanities colleagues are most likely to use.
>
> I keep all of the references for my courses in a Zotero database.
> When generating a syllabus, I select a set of references, then copy
> them over to my org file.  However, then I have to edit each reference
> to give the appropriate italicization; in one of my courses we use APA
> citation formats, which I don't really know very well, and sometimes I
> make mistakes.
>

Doesn't Zotero offer an option to export to a BibTeX file and keep that
BibTeX file in sync? If so, you can just cite from the BibTeX file in Org
using RefTeX.

  -k.

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