Re: org-exp-bibtex.el - add support to citing bibtex in both html and latex exports

From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Taru Karttunen <taruti@taruti.net>
Cc: Org-mode ml <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: org-exp-bibtex.el - add support to citing bibtex in both html and latex exports
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 10:34:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <B958BCE6-4F50-4FED-80A2-E815A83A621B@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090303063345.GA23455@taruti.net>

On Mar 3, 2009, at 7:33 AM, Taru Karttunen wrote:

> On 02.03 10:40, William Henney wrote:
>>> Selecting only some entries to display would be possible,
>>> but is it really necessary? In my use cases I just tend
>>> to have a per-article bib-file that contains the entries
>>> I wish to use. Making a rich enough API to sort, reformat
>>> and select a portion of a BibTeX file seems quite overblown
>>> for org.
>>
>> Personally, I use a single .bib file for everything, which is
>> currently running at 12269 entries, so something like Carsten's
>> suggestion would be necessary before org-exp-bibtex.el became useful
>> to me :)
>>
>> Bibtex2html already comes with a separate tool "bib2bib" which seems
>> to already do exactly what is needed. See
>> http://www.lri.fr/~filliatr/bibtex2html/doc/#htoc12
>
> Yes, it contains bib2bib and even the main bibtex2html contains
> functionality for this.
>
> Now how do we want to do this with org-mode?
> 1) The user is responsible for creating a bib-file using
> whatever tools she prefers (e.g. bib2bib).
> 2) Add an option to just select the entries that are used
> in the org-file. Nothing fancy.

I think (1) and (2) would be really nice.

>
> 3) Add a generic API to select+sort+format the entries.

(3) seems to be indeed more than necessary.  I for one would be  
perfectly
happy if the entries would come out in the sequence of citation, which
will likely be automatic?

> Both 1 and 2 are easy to do. I can create a patch that
> adds support for this later this week. Are there any
> other features that you would need?

For consistency with other HTML in Org's output, I think it
would be good if the div around the bibliography would be

<div id="bibliography">

instead of class.

- Carsten

>
>
> - Taru Karttunen
>
>
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