Re: org-odt and bibliography

[Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>]

Hi,

I regret to agree about the OOo bibliographic features.

Zotero is very nice, but getting Zotero IDs into an Org-mode document 
(see Eric Hetzner's zotero-plain, 
https://bitbucket.org/egh/zotero-plain) and then into OOo in a form 
where they'll be useful (no ready solution I know of) is a somewhat 
complex task. If Bibtex is your starting point and you want to 
maintain your bibliography in Bibtex (and why wouldn't you, if you can 
/deliver/ your work as LaTeX/PDF), the round trip will be more complex 
and fragile yet.

What are your minimal bibliographic requirements for documents to send 
your supervisor? If you're using author-date citations and a reference 
list, I might have a crude stopgap.

Yours,
Christian



On 7/8/11 3:40 AM, Henri-Paul Indiogine wrote:
> Hi Matt!
>
> 2011/7/7 Matt Price<moptop99@gmail.com>:
>> The zotero Standalone Alpha has a Chrome extension.  I think using Zotero is
>> a much better bet than trying to use the native OOo bibliographic features
>> which were always very primitive, never really expanded as they were
>> supposed to be, and have, I believe, more or less rotted in the last several
>> years.   there have been threads on this list about using zotero with
>> org-mode; now that org-odt as been incorporated into the org relase (yay!)
>> maybe someone will figure out how to translate zotero ids into odt documents
>> using the command-line version of OOo or something.
>
> I know close to nothing about Zotero except that I have installed the
> extensions for Firefox and LibreOffice.
>
> I am willing to install the standalone Zotero. It has connectors for
> Chrome and OpenOffice, so that should work.
>
> Thanks,
> Henri-Paul
>