jorge.alfaro-muri...@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) writes: > From what I read in this and the previous thread, the new proposal > tries more or less to reimplement BibTeX in org.
No, that's wrong, not the database should be replaced. The goal is to make citations a first class citizen in the org world (so no fallback to LaTeX commands or links with special handlings are needed). > The biggest advantage of having something org/elisp native as in the > proposal would be the implementation of functions to create > bibliographies with a specific style, what Oren Patashnik called > "Bibliography-style hacking", which is very cumbersome in BibTeX > (maybe is just that I cannot read WEB/Pascal and have a strong > preference for Lisp dialects). Hmmm... nowadays one uses biblatex[fn:1] (with its companion biber) which makes hacking bibliography styles quite easy (in LaTeX; compared to customizing bst files). I do not think that the current discussion will lead to writing bib-styles in Lisp instead of LaTeX (at least not in the foreseeable future). [fn:1] http://ctan.org/pkg/biblatex -- Until the next mail..., Stefan.
