Re: bibliographystyle in scimax

["Simonyi András" <andras.simonyi@gmail.com>]

Dear Joseph,

I'm not familiar with scimax, but if it uses org-ref to handle
citations then you might give a try to citeproc-orgref
(https://github.com/andras-simonyi/citeproc-orgref) which is able to
format BibTeX citations in html exports according to any CSL style
(Chicago author-date is the default).

best wishes,

András

On 3 March 2018 at 09:22, Joseph Vidal-Rosset
<joseph.vidal.rosset@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear John,
>
> I am happy to tell you that your scimax
> https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax is a wonderful tool for emacs, for
> org-mode and for exporting in LaTeX with references. I advice strongly
> its use.
>
> I am using Gnus and not mu4e to write emails and it works well now
> thanks of the help of Eric Fraga.
>
> This email is just about a detail. I guess it would be possible in
> theory to get the bibliography style that I want in email as well as
> in any other exported document, but it is not the case for the html
> export and therefore not for html email in Gnus. It is too bad,
> because apalike for example is a good option that avoids Jan von
> Plato’s reproach vonplato2017:
>
> A great disservice is being done to scholarship by the reference system
> prevalent today that has running numbers, usually in square brackets,
> for the items in the references. The defects of this system are twofold.
> First, it is enormously disturbing for the reader to be constantly
> checking the list of references to see what article or book is being
> referred to. The reader’s memory is burdened with information that
> has no meaning elsewhere. Second, the awareness of who did what
> and when is eroded little by little. If we read Gödel (1931) or Gentzen
> (1936), we know what that is, contrary to a plain [104] and [90], say,
> and similarly with hundreds of other works. Such couplings of names
> and years give us a timeline that is indispensable for an awareness of
> the development of logic or any other part of science. The thoughtless
> “bibtex” square bracket numbering system of references is destroying
> such awareness and should therefore be universally abandoned. It has
> just one, totally inessential advantage: that it saves some space. In a
> standard article, that may be a few lines, and in a book, a page or two.
>
> So, do you think that it is possible to adopt the apalike bibliography
> style in html document also?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Jo.
>
> Bibliography
>
> [vonplato2017] Jan von Plato, The Great Formal Machinery Works: Theories of
> Deduction and Computation at the Origins of the Digital Age, Princeton
> University Press (2017).
>
>