Re: managing articles in my personal library, and their citational material, using org mode instead of bibtex

[Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>]

Alan L Tyree <alantyree@gmail.com> writes:

> On 20/11/13 17:27, Jambunathan K wrote:
>> Alan L Tyree <alantyree@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> What I mean is to enter something like \cite{mann82} in the text and
>>> have it spit out (Mann 1982) in each and every export as well as
>>> constructing an entry for the bibliography.
>> (For benefit of others)
>>
>> ox-jabref.el and JabRef can spit things out in different formats.  I
>>
>> I have added support for the odt backend.  But I have fleshed out the
>> basic details so that it could be re-targeted for HTML or Plain Ascii
>> export.
>>
>> ----------------
>>
>> Often the problem is that the author is stuck with a given DB and tool
>> and is unwilling to let go of investments that he has made in that
>> specific tool.  (This is perfectly understandable.)
> Hi Jambu,
> This is a bit cryptic. It seems to me that it is relatively easy to
> change DB and tools. I currently keep all my references in a bibtex
> DB, but there are plenty of conversion tools. The real problem is
> finding something that works.
>
> I still find Org mode a bit frustrating in this context. In the above
> quote I say "something like \cite", but I don't really care what the
> entry looks like as long as it can retrieve information from a DB and
> construct the correct text reference and the correct bibliography
> entry across all exports.
>
> Is there such a DB and tool?
>
> Cheers,
> Alan
>

Checkout ox-bibtex.el in contrib used in combination with either ebib or
org-bibtex-extras.el.

Best,

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Eric Schulte
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