From: Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>
To: Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how difficultwould it be to support zotero in org?
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:30:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C8168DE.9060608@christianmoe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=OMnGJO93QEtq5qpySL=AafOq_S+3jLAjMQ1Jq@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
I'm in the same situation, eager to do humanities in plain text.
(One possibility is reStructuredText, with an elegant syntax and an
excellent ODF exporter. But I love the Swiss-army-knife-ness of Org.)
Just wondering two things:
1. Have you tried out Org > HTML > MS Word or OpenOffice, and how is
it worse than mk4ht for someone who'd prefer not to learn latex?
I find that this works amazingly well:
- export HTML, delete the XML declaration
- open HTML in OpenOffice and remove sections
- select all, copy, paste into a new document, and save that document
as .doc/.odt/.rtf (a bit cumbersome -- there ought to be an option to
open HTML and Save As an office format, but I can't find it)
This gives footnotes, tables, even bookmarks, with internal links to
targets or custom IDs preserved.
2. Given that the above is a viable path to get Rich Text Format
documents, have you tried {Smith, 1995, 6-7} citations and formatting
with Zotero's RTF scan (http://www.zotero.org/support/rtf_scan)? It's
another manual step, of course, so the whole process gets pretty
lengthy, but it does let you format bibliographies for Word with
Zotero from Org...
Yours,
Christian
> this is certainly something I'd like to do. But i have the problem
> that (1) I don't really know how to use latex, and was trying to avoid
> what now seems like the necessary task of learning how to use it; and
> (2) in my field (history) latex and bibtex are both pretty problematic
> as export formats. Bibtex doesn't support most humanistic citation
> styles (and has a rigid type strcture which doesn't accommodate things
> like archival materials very well; while latex is neither an
> acceptable submission format for most journals, nor a good formation
> for collaboration with other scholars (since everyone else writes in
> MS Word). This means that what I really need is a more robust
> open-document exporter; but that's been giving me problem after
> problem lately (for instance, mk4ht has stopped exporting some of my
> most important documents, for reasons I don't understand but might be
> related to org-mode's latex exporter. I have this notion I saw a
> generic exporter that someone wrote for odt, in which you feed the
> exporter a template document which ocntains all the relevant style
> definitions. but I can't find it anymore, and as I recall it didn't
> really seem to work very well anyway.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-03 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-02 16:19 how difficultwould it be to support zotero in org? Matt Price
2010-09-02 19:45 ` David Maus
2010-09-02 21:58 ` Christian Moe
2010-09-02 23:18 ` Matt Price
2010-09-02 23:56 ` Matt Price
2010-09-03 0:50 ` Matt Price
2010-09-03 20:12 ` Scot Becker
2010-09-03 20:55 ` Matt Price
2010-09-04 17:33 ` Scot Becker
2010-09-05 9:09 ` Christian Moe
2010-10-13 9:18 ` Jean-Marie Gaillourdet
2010-10-14 9:29 ` Scot Becker
2010-09-03 21:30 ` Christian Moe [this message]
2010-09-03 22:36 ` Alan L Tyree
2010-09-02 21:35 ` Christian Moe
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