Re: How to produce an org-ref citation from ivy-bibtex

[John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>]

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The best place to report org-ref issues is
https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref/issues.

On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 7:25 AM Sven Bretfeld <sven.bretfeld@ntnu.no> wrote:

> Hi John
>
> Thank you very much again. Elegant solution, and it works.
>
> I just wonder why I seem to be the only one on the list who had that
> problem. Am I so out of fashion to use org-ref and ivy/helm-bibtex
> together? I have been doing that for surely 10 years but had to stick
> with an old version of org-ref until recently (because of a completely
> different problem that I will post in another thread).
>
> Have a nice day,
>
> Sven
>
>
> Am Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 12:07:35PM -0500 schrieb John Kitchin:
> > You can try something like this
> >
> > #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
> > (setq bibtex-completion-format-citation-functions
> >       '((org-mode      . (lambda (keys) (org-ref-insert-cite-keys keys)
> ""))
> >         (latex-mode    . bibtex-completion-format-citation-cite)
> >         (markdown-mode .
> bibtex-completion-format-citation-pandoc-citeproc)
> >         (default       . bibtex-completion-format-citation-default)))
> > #+END_SRC
> >
> > it seems like ivy-bibtex at least expects some kind of string to be
> returned,
> > but org-ref-insert-cite-keys does the insertion for you.
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 11:19 AM Sven Bretfeld <[1]sven.bretfeld@ntnu.no
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >     Hi everybody
> >
> >     Is it at all possible to produce a correct org-ref citation format
> >     from ivy-bibtex (or helm-bibtex, I tried both)? What I mean by
> >     "correct" is the format: [[cite:&citekey]].
> >
> >     The problem seems to come down to the question what has to be
> inserted
> >     in the 2nd line here:
> >
> >     (setq bibtex-completion-format-citation-functions
> >           '((org-mode      . ??????)
> >             (latex-mode    . bibtex-completion-format-citation-cite)
> >             (markdown-mode .
> bibtex-completion-format-citation-pandoc-citeproc)
> >             (default       . bibtex-completion-format-citation-default)))
> >
> >     (A) Not setting the variable at all, defaults to producing an ebib
> >     link which is of no use to me at all.
> >
> >     (B) Putting org-ref-helm-bibtex-insert-citation here (as found on
> >     reddit) does not work, since the function does not seem to exist
> >     anymore.
> >
> >     (C) Putting org-ref-insert-cite-link here is obviously wrong.
> Choosing
> >     that from the list of ivy-bibtex-actions, just calls the function
> >     interactively, you have to search for the bib-entry again and the
> >     resulting link looks like: [[cite:&citekey]]^&. The terminating '^&'
> >     obviously makes subsequent LaTeX-exports fall.
> >
> >     (D) Putting "bibtex-completion-format-citation-org-cite" here,
> >     produces standard org-links: [cite:@citekey]. These are not
> correctly
> >     exported to a tex file when the org-ref package is loaded.
> >
> >     The only working solution I have found is to use org-ref's own cite
> >     function org-ref-insert-cite-link. I know that ivy-bibtex can be set
> >     as backend (require 'org-ref-ivy). But in this way ivy-bibtex's other
> >     actions (like opening an associated PDF or note file) are lost.
> >
> >     It would be nice to be able to use a SINGLE key-binding to select a
> >     bib-entry and then decide what to do with it (insert org reference,
> >     insert tex reference, open pdf, etc.). This was possible earlier (I
> >     did that for years with older versions of org-ref-helm) but is
> >     apparently no longer possible now.
> >
> >     Many thanks for help and suggestions,
> >
> >     Sven
> >
> >
> >
> > References:
> >
> > [1] mailto:sven.bretfeld@ntnu.no
>
>

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ohn

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