> >> 3.is it possible to ass an option to auto generate a bibkey for a selected >> citation based on user criteria such as author(date)short-title? > > Maintaining the content of the BibTeX file not really in the scope of > helm-bibtex (I prefer to write my BibTeX entries by hand). Perhaps > org-ref or ebib can help here? Once you have a function that generates > a new key and inserts it in the BibTeX file, you can easily add it to > the list of actions in helm-bibtex.
Indeed. See org-ref-clean-bibtex-entry This adds a key according to some rules, and cleans up the entries in a lot of ways. We try to always get bibtex entries from a doi (using doi-utils.el), and they almost always need some "cleaning". > > Hope that helps. > > Titus > >> thx so much in advance, you and john have given me confidence to finally >> dive into the whole latex/bibteX world >> >> best >> >> Z -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
