Re: [ANN] Zotero for plain text (including org-mode)

[Erik Hetzner <egh@e6h.org>]

At Sun, 19 Dec 2010 12:27:32 +0100,
Christian Moe wrote:
> 
> Hi, Erik,
> 
> Now I've got it working. Not sure what the problem was yesterday.
> 
> I can insert a Zotero link with `C-c z i', but it's very touch and go 
> -- sometimes it's inserted, sometimes nothing happens, most of the 
> time I don't get a description part, and `C-c z u' doesn't necessarily 
> work, though sometimes it does.
> 
> Below is an excerpt from the MozRepl buffer. Much of the time, though, 
> there is no error message, just multiplying "repl>" prompts.
> 
> So on a quick test drive, it's not as stable as I'd like. Otherwise, I 
> think zotero-plain could be a boon for Org-mode and Zotero users. We 
> already could insert Zotero links just as easily with Scott Campbell's 
> ZotSelect translator 
> (http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/8306/testing-zoteroselect/). But 
> with the added updating of formatted bibliography items, zotero-plain 
> has the makings of a full solution.
> 
> My own preference has been to export my Zotero collections to BibTeX 
> and insert citations with Reftex (fast and minimally disruptive to the 
> writing flow, as long as all the needed references are already 
> collected.) But it's good to have an alternative.

Hi Christian,

Thanks for the feedback. mozrepl interaction is definitely
troublesome; my experience has not been as bad as yours, but there can
be problems.

I have changed zotero.el to reset the mozrepl process frequently; it
is a bit of a hack, but it seems to improve things a bit.T

I am hoping that using the recently announced zotero.org API for
citation generation will be more stable than using mozrepl.

best, Erik