Re: [O] State of the art in citations

2014-04-29 Thread Richard Lawrence
Hi Vikas, Vikas Rawal Lists writes: > On 26-Apr-2014, at 6:56 pm, Clément B. wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >>> - Should I use biblatex instead of bibtex? >> >> You should. It is very powerful and straightforward. The manual >> is great. > > Is the choice so clearcut? > > A lot of bibliographic dat

Re: [O] State of the art in citations

2014-04-29 Thread Vikas Rawal Lists
> Hi all, > >> - Should I use biblatex instead of bibtex? > > You should. It is very powerful and straightforward. The manual > is great. > ox-bibtex provides a usable implementation of including bibtex citations in html export. Can this be done if using biblatex? Vikas

Re: [O] State of the art in citations

2014-04-29 Thread Vikas Rawal Lists
On 26-Apr-2014, at 6:56 pm, Clément B. wrote: > Hi all, > >> - Should I use biblatex instead of bibtex? > > You should. It is very powerful and straightforward. The manual > is great. > Is the choice so clearcut? A lot of bibliographic databases provide bibtex-compatible citation inform

Re: [O] State of the art in citations

2014-04-28 Thread Julian M. Burgos
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

Re: [O] State of the art in citations

2014-04-28 Thread Julian M. Burgos
Hi Leonard, Yes, I will be definitively interested on this! Thanks! Julian Leonard Randall writes: > Hi Julian et al., > I am not sure if this helps, but I am in the process of writing a new > package for inserting citations into org buffers using RefTeX. This > solution would make citation in

Re: [O] State of the art in citations

2014-04-27 Thread Richard Lawrence
Hi Clément and all, Clément B. writes: > As for citations, I find that the most flexible way is to define > my own link types, that allows control on both org formatting and > export... Replacing my inline \cite commands with custom link types is something I've been meaning to do for a while.

Re: [O] State of the art in citations

2014-04-27 Thread Clément B .
Hi John, This is great ! Way more advanced than anything I have said. > 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

Re: [O] State of the art in citations

2014-04-27 Thread John Kitchin
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

Re: [O] State of the art in citations

2014-04-27 Thread Clément B .
> It appears to work for multicite for me. Or at least well enough. If I > select multiple entries, I get this: > > [[ref:Author1:,Author2:,Author3:][()]] > > I can then easily insert the text I want into the (). It exports > properly to LaTeX as \cite{Author1:,Author2:,Author3

Re: [O] State of the art in citations

2014-04-27 Thread Ken Mankoff
On 2014-04-27 at 12:01, Thomas S. Dye wrote: > Clément B. writes: > >> This makes inserting custom links ("ref") easier with the usual >> `reftex-citation` bound to C-c [. >> >>> On the other hand, it will work with multicite commands, >>> whereas Clement's does not look like it will. >> >> It do

Re: [O] State of the art in citations

2014-04-27 Thread Ken Mankoff
On 2014-04-27 at 12:05, Clément B. wrote: >> Still looking into "lastname (Year)" format... > > I hadn't noticed that before, but now that you mention it, I > think this is related to the way you format your bib file. > > For example "%A (%y)" with: > > 1. name = {Darwin, Charles} >year = {185

Re: [O] State of the art in citations

2014-04-27 Thread Clément B .
> I find the best way to support ODT is simply add something like this: > > ((eq format 'odt) >(format "(%s)" desc)) > > This doesn't create a bibliography section, but that section is awkward > to export to anyway. It requires the 3rd party Org hack that isn't > officially supported

Re: [O] State of the art in citations

2014-04-27 Thread Thomas S. Dye
Clément B. writes: > Hi Leonard, > >> I am in the process of writing a new package for inserting >> citations into org buffers using RefTeX. > > I'd be interested to know what you have in mind. I use something > of the sort, by customising `reftex-cite-format`, e.g: > > (setq reftex-cite-format >

Re: [O] State of the art in citations

2014-04-27 Thread Ken Mankoff
On 2014-04-27 at 10:53, Clément B. wrote: > Hi Ken, > >> When I export this to LaTeX, it is not treated as a proper LaTeX >> citation. The text is just the "%A (%y)" part. Is there some way to >> export so that the ref:%l turns into a \cite{%l}? > > The "ref" is a custom link type, you can define

Re: [O] State of the art in citations

2014-04-27 Thread Clément B .
Hi Ken, > When I export this to LaTeX, it is not treated as a proper > LaTeX citation. The text is just the "%A (%y)" part. Is there > some way to export so that the ref:%l turns into a \cite{%l}? The "ref" is a custom link type, you can define those in org with `org-add-link-type`, and they allo

Re: [O] State of the art in citations

2014-04-27 Thread Ken Mankoff
Hi Clément and Others, On 2014-04-27 at 10:14, Clément B. wrote: > (setq reftex-cite-format >'((?\C-m . "\\cite[]{%l}") > (?b . "[[ref:%l][%A (%y)]]"))) I've been using reftex in Org -> LaTeX for a while and have my Org text sprinkled with \cite{foo:}. I just saw the

Re: [O] State of the art in citations

2014-04-27 Thread Clément B .
Hi Leonard, > I am in the process of writing a new package for inserting > citations into org buffers using RefTeX. I'd be interested to know what you have in mind. I use something of the sort, by customising `reftex-cite-format`, e.g: (setq reftex-cite-format '((?\C-m . "\\cite[]{%l}

Re: [O] State of the art in citations

2014-04-27 Thread Leonard Randall
Hi Julian et al., I am not sure if this helps, but I am in the process of writing a new package for inserting citations into org buffers using RefTeX. This solution would make citation insertion very convenient, but it would not be quite as easy to read as Clément's solution, and it would only work

Re: [O] State of the art in citations

2014-04-26 Thread Clément B .
Hi all, > - Should I use biblatex instead of bibtex? You should. It is very powerful and straightforward. The manual is great. As for citations, I find that the most flexible way is to define my own link types, that allows control on both org formatting and export Let's say for example that

Re: [O] State of the art in citations

2014-04-26 Thread Clément B .
Hi all, > - Should I use biblatex instead of bibtex? You should. It is very powerful and straightforward. The manual is great. As for citations, I find that the most flexible way is to define my own link types, that allows control on both org formatting and export Let's say for example that

Re: [O] State of the art in citations

2014-04-25 Thread Grant Rettke
Is there a sub-group dedicated to this? It is on my TODO list to catch up on the state of the art, too. Grant Rettke | AAAS, ACM, ASA, FSF, IEEE, SIAM, Sigma Xi gret...@acm.org | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ “Wisdom begins in wonder.” --Socrates ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x))) “Life has become im

[O] State of the art in citations

2014-04-25 Thread Julian M. Burgos
Dear list, I use org-mode to write scientific papers, exporting mostly to LaTex/pdf (and sometimes to Word via ODT when I have to collaborate with less enlightened colleagues). I keep my references in a .bib file, and so far I have been using bibtex in a more or less standard way, using reftex to