Hi Sebastian,
Sebastian Titz <
sebastian.titz@gmail.com> writes:
> Matthew Lundin <
mdl@imapmail.org> wrote:
>
>> I am in the same position --- i.e., I use emacs/auctex/org-mode/biblatex
>> in a field in which MS Word is the default option. Many of the things I
>> write have to be converted to doc format at some point.
> could you elaborate on how you use biblatex with org-mode and auctex,
> since auctex doesn't support biblatex?
I'll try to keep this brief, since I don't want to talk too much about
AUCTeX in the org-mode forum.
I've found that AUCTeX and RefTeX work very well with biblatex, since
all biblatex requires is to run latex, then bibtex, then latex again.
I use the Chicago Manual of Style biblatex package:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-chicago-notes-df/
To make this work with AUCTeX, I've created a custom reftex-cite-format
for the citation types I use most often:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(setq reftex-cite-format
'(
(?c . "\\cite[]{%l}")
(?C . "\\cites[]{%l}")
(?t . "\\citetitle[]{%l}")
(?T . "\\citetitles[]{%l}")
(?a . "\\autocite[]{%l}")
(?A . "\\autocites[]{%l}")
(?h . "\\headlessfullcite[]{%l}")
(?x . "[]{%l}")
(?X . "{%l}")
))
(setq reftex-cite-prompt-optional-args t)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
I've also set the following variable to get the appropriate faces:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(setq font-latex-match-reference-keywords
'(("cites" "[{")
("autocite" "[{")
("autocites" "[{")
("citetitle" "[{")
("citetitles" "[{")
("headlessfullcite" "[{")))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Finally, I've had to hack at a couple of reftex functions to change the
regular expressions that are used to identify citation macros for:
1) jumping to the matching entry in the bib file
(reftex-view-crossref)
2) generating a bib file from a tex file
(reftex-all-used-citation-keys).
- This is necessary because the current regexps don't recognize
the plural citation macros (e.g. \cites, \autocites, etc.).
Unfortunately, these regexps are hardcoded into reftex, so I have to
load the rewritten functions via a reftex-mode-hook. And since Carsten
is no longer the maintainer of RefTeX, it's not quite as easy to get a
customize option for a RefTeX regexp as it is to get one in org-mode. :)
The whole setup is by no means perfect, but it works fine for me.
Now, for the org-mode part of the post. I generally use org-mode for
drafting and AUCTeX for revising/polishing and adding formal citations.
If I plan exporting something quickly from org-mode, I use the following
function for a quick and dirty way to get citation info from my bib
files into my org-mode files. (And, of course, I make heavy use of
org-mode's wonderful footnote features.)
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(defun my-reftex-citations ()
(interactive)
(let ((reftex-cite-format
'(
(?f . "%a. %t. %j, %v, %b. %r: %u, %y. %p.\n")
(?F . "<<%l>>\n\n%a. %t. %j, %v, %b. %r: %u, %y. %p.\n")
(?s . "%a, %t, %y\n")
(?c . "\\cite[]{%l}"
(?l . "[[%l]]\n")
(?L . "%a, %t, %y. [[%l]]\n"))))
(reftex-citation)))
(define-key text-mode-map (kbd "C-c y") 'my-reftex-citations)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
If I wanted to export for biblatex directly from org-mode (which I
haven't tried yet), I think I would ignore most of the special
biblatex/Chicago macros and just use the \cite macro inside of footnotes
to make conversion/export to other formats a bit easier.
Hope this helps.
Matt