Re: Bibliographic references

[tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye)]

Alan L Tyree <alantyree@gmail.com> writes:

> On 17/12/11 11:25:36, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
>> Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Of course, this just handles the in-text part for formats other
>> than
>> >> LaTeX.  LaTeX uses bibtex or biblatex to compile the list of
>> >> references.  I don't know how to accomplish this in ODT.  For 
>> html,
>> I
>> >> export from Org-mode to LaTeX, then use tex4ht to convert to html. 
>> This
>> >> leverages the bibtex capabilities and yields nicely formatted
>> >> bibliographies in html.
>> >> 
>> >
>> > If libreoffice can import HTML, maybe the tex4ht way can work for
>> ODT as
>> > well?
>> >
>> > Nick
>> >
>> 
>> Hi Nick,
>> 
>> Good catch.  In principle, yes, though I've never worked with
>> libreoffice.  We follow a similar path to produce Word versions of 
>> our
>> documents when clients require them: Org -> LaTeX -> tex4ht -> html -
>> >
>> Word -> Save As -> lots of tidying by hand.  It works, but it isn't a
>> pretty process with our setup.  I'm sure folks on this list could do
>> better, though.
>> 
>> tex4ht has some switches that help it produce output suited for this
>> path.  It was designed to be configured very extensively.
>> 
>> What I meant earlier (but didn't express well) was that I didn't know
>> if
>> it was possible to generate bibliographies from keys in the ODT
>> environment.  I'm guessing there must be a way to do this (Endnote?,
>> Zotero?), but I haven't looked into it.
>
> Even though my original question was a bit ambiguous, what I meant was 
> generating the bibliography from keys. One org input file, output to 
> all formats does the right thing.
>
> oolatex produces reasonably good OO output, including bibliography, so 
> the org -> LaTeX -> oolatex sequence would work, but, again, seems 
> clumsy. Particularly since Jambunathan's ODT export looks so good.
>
> Alan
>
>> 
>> Tom
>> 
>> -- 
>> Thomas S. Dye
>> http://www.tsdye.com
>> 
Aloha Alan,

It would probably be fairly easy to add a variable such as
org-latex-to-oo-process patterned after org-latex-to-pdf-process and
then export to oo through oolatex directly from org-mode.  That might
get rid of the clumsiness you're experiencing.

I'm still curious how one generates a bibliography from keys in the ODT
world, or if it is possible.    

All the best,
Tom

-- 
Thomas S. Dye
http://www.tsdye.com