Re: Bug: reftex breaking after org-mode export [8.2.10 (8.2.10-35-g19a7d6-elpa @ /Users/adamjackson/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20150323/)]

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

If by cross-references you mean \ref and \label, those are implemented
independently of reftex as new org-mode links, e.g. label:some-key and
ref:some-key. There are a variety of completion options to make
inserting these pretty easy. you can use reftex to insert citations in
org-ref, but the default is now to use helm-bibtex which I find easer to
search in, in addition to providing a lot more functionality for
interacting with bibliography entries.

Adam Jackson writes:

> Thanks, John.
>
> org-ref looks quite handy, although I would like to try and get basic functionality working without adding another package. Does it implement cross-references independently of reftex? Perhaps I need to abandon reftex, but this seems like it should be a trivial problem.
>
> Commenting out the org-ref block, this setup seems to work in that I am able to insert citations with "M-x reftex-citation" after exporting to LaTeX. This suggests that (reftex-parse-all) is somewhat to blame. However, attempting to insert an equation reference with "M-x reftex-reference" still fails after exporting and works before the first export. I suspect TeX-master is indeed involved, as the backtrace suggests.
>
> Returning to my original setup and commenting out the (reftex-parse-all) gives a similar result to your block; working citations, but cross-references that break after LaTeX export. One of the most baffling aspects is that killing and re-opening the buffer and re-starting Reftex does not eliminate the problem; I have to actually quit and re-open emacs.
>
> Regards,
> Adam

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