Re: Fwd: Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt

[Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com>]

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On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Richard Lawrence <
richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Hi Eric and all,
>
> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
> > On Tuesday,  1 Dec 2015 at 07:12, Matt Price wrote:
> >> I love Zotxt. my only concern is for those people who run a remote
> Emacs.
> >> If, say, you run emacs on a server that you access by ssh, it will not
> be
> >> possible to process your citations with org.
> >
> > I'm not sure I understand this.
> >
> > Is the implication that one will need to be connected to the Internet to
> > be able to export citations?  If so, this is not good.
>
> No, you should not need to be connected to the Internet.  As I envision
> things, Emacs will just speak to the Zotero installation on the local
> machine.  That's what zotxt does now.  So, there should be no problem as
> long as Firefox, Zotero and zotxt are running on the same machine that
> is running Emacs.
>
> I suppose the concern is that someone running a remote Emacs is likely
> doing so on a machine that does not have a GUI...and hence may not have
> Firefox installed, and consequently won't have Zotero or zotxt.  In that
> case, citation processing would have to go another route.
>

This is the scenario I was envisioning, thank you both for clarifying.

>
> Are there a lot of people in that situation?
>

... and this is precisely the question I meant to ask.

>
> Best,
> Richard
>

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