Re: Org citations, CSL and citeproc-el

[Richard Lawrence <richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu>]

Hi András and all: 

Sorry for the delay.  
 
András Simonyi <andras.simonyi@gmail.com> writes:
 
> Another question is the syntax for specifying the bibliography 
> to be used and, maybe, the location where the bibliography 
> should be placed.  Org-ref (ab)uses links for these purposes as 
> well. Was there a syntax proposal for these things too? 

As far as I know, there was not.  This was not settled because in 
order to settle it, you need to know a bit more about the backend. 
(Where is the citation data stored? do you have to get it from an 
external program? if so, which? etc. etc.)

I think there was some agreement that we can do this with option 
keywords.  There is an existing syntax for specifying 
bibliographies in contrib/ox-bibtex.el, which probably provides a 
good model:

#+BIBLIOGRAPHY: bibfilename stylename optional-options  When I was 
playing around with hooking up the citation syntax to an external 
citation processor, I was using something similar: I had keywords 
like

#+CSL_FILE: the-csl-style-file.csl +BIBDB: bibtex testdoc.bib 

in the header, and used

#+BIBLIOGRAPHY: here

to specify where the bibliography should be placed in the 
document.  That is obviously not the nicest solution, but the 
basic idea might be a good starting point. 


-- 
Best,
Richard