Thanks Clément and everybody else for their comments/ideas. I will go through these carefully.
John Kitchin writes: > It seems there are a lot of variants of citation handling out there! I will > add to the list my own variants here: > https://github.com/jkitchin/jmax/blob/master/jorg-bib.el. My citation needs > are simple, I basically only use \cite{key1,key2} in LaTeX. And I only use > bibtex, because I have not gotten around to anything else, bibtex works > fine if your needs are simple (like mine). > > There is certainly duplication of some things, but the following are > features in mine that I am not aware of anywhere else. > > > 1. Integration with reftex. You type C-c ] and select keys from reftex and > insert a cite link. If you type it again on a citation, the new entries are > appended to the end. This current conversation inspired me to implement > this! > > 2. Clickable cite links. If you have a citation link like > cite:key1,key2,key3 you can click on key1 and open the bibliography file to > key1, and you can click on key2 and have it open at key 2. This link would > export in latex as \cite{key1,key2,key3}. Other cite formats, e.g. citep, > citep*, etc... are defined too, but are relatively untested. You can also > use completion to enter a bibtex key. > > 3. citation tooltips. If clicking is too disruptive, you can run a command > and get a tooltip of the citation under point. If clicking is too tiring, > you can turn on an idle timer that shows a tooltip if the cursor is on a > citation. > > 4. clickable label links. clicking checks the buffer for another label by > the same name. > > 5. Clickable ref links. Clicking on the ref:label takes you to the label, > and provides C-c & to get back to that point. You can also use completion > to get a list of labels in the buffer to make a ref to. > > 6. A bibliographystyle and bibliography link. The bibliography link opens > the bibtex file that was clicked on. > > 7. Code to make a clickable list of figures and tables. > > 8. Code to extract the bibtex entries cited in an org-file to a text block > at the end of the org-file > > 9. variables to point to a notes file and pdf directory, and functions to > jump to your notes and the pdf file from a bibtex entry. > > 10. a function to build a complete pdf bibliography from your bibtex file. > This is handy for checking the entries are spelled correctly, etc... > > 11. A little function and python script to upload a bibtex entry to > citeulike. > > I have not tried to do much with anything but LaTeX, so these links are not > likely to be that good for html or odt I suspect. > > Anyway, there are some very interesting ideas in this code, and I am using > it on a pretty regular basis. Maybe some of you would also find them > interesting/helpful. I look forward to see this continue developing! > > John > > ----------------------------------- > John Kitchin > Associate Professor > Doherty Hall A207F > Department of Chemical Engineering > Carnegie Mellon University > Pittsburgh, PA 15213 > 412-268-7803 > http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu > > > > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Clément B. <clem...@inventati.org> wrote: > >> >> > It appears to work for multicite for me. Or at least well enough. If I >> > select multiple entries, I get this: >> > >> > [[ref:Author1:YYYY,Author2:YYYY,Author3:YYYY][()]] >> > >> > I can then easily insert the text I want into the (). It exports >> > properly to LaTeX as \cite{Author1:YYYY,Author2:YYYY,Author3:YYYY}. >> > >> > Maybe most people multi-cite more than me, but I think it is only a bit >> > of extra work to add what I want in the () and then it exports properly >> > to LaTeX and, using the references-via-LaTeX, to ODT/HTML too! >> > >> > -k. >> >> The problem is that you can't link to a bibtex entry, >> [[ref:Author1:YYYY,Author2:YYYY]] is not picked up by org search >> function of `org-open-file`. And even if it was, it couldn't link >> to several entries at once. So to preserve the ability to jump >> quickly to a reference, I quite like the export filter approach, >> which I was unaware of (thank you Thomas! ). >> >> >> Clément >> >> -- Julian Mariano Burgos, PhD Hafrannsóknastofnun/Marine Research Institute Skúlagata 4, 121 Reykjavík, Iceland Sími/Telephone : +354-5752037 Bréfsími/Telefax: +354-5752001 Netfang/Email: jul...@hafro.is
