Dear John,
I upgraded org-ref to get org-ref 3 and I met the following difficulties:
- my shortcut to get the list of my bib file did not work, and I have to
use the emacs menu,
If you mean keyboard shortcuts (like C-c ]), you should define these in your init files as described in the configuration above. org-ref does not do this automatically anymore.
- I did not get via org-ref a pdf file of any paper,
I can't help you on this with so little information. is there some error?
- cite links with the page(s) via "description" show only the page but
the reference is hidden,
I consider the syntax of pre/postnote in the description to be deprecated (but still supported). I pushed a fix to show the full links with a description for the version 2 syntax. The preferred way to do pre/post notes now is like:
version 3 syntax (keys are prefixed by &, and prenote is before the key, postnote is after the key.
[[cite:&xiao-2006-size-effec 45]]
[[cite:see &xiao-2006-size-effec 45]]
These export to:
\cite[45]{xiao-2006-size-effec}
\cite[see][45]{xiao-2006-size-effec}
version 2 syntax still works, (the two key differences are there is no & prefixing the citation key, and the pre/post note is in the description.
These citations
[[cite:xiao-2006-size-effec][45]]
[[cite:xiao-2006-size-effec][see::45]]
export to:
version 2 syntax
\cite[45]{xiao-2006-size-effec}
\cite[see][45]{xiao-2006-size-effec}
at the moment, I downgraded to org-ref 2 and everything works fine.
I imagine that all is in the documentation you wrote to solve these
problems, but I wanted to point out them, in order to solve them easily
and to contribute to the improvement of this terrific tool you gave to
us. I do not imagine now writing without org-ref.
Thanks !
Jo.