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From: Ista Zahn <istazahn@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] BibELTeX: native bibtex support in org-mode
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:31:40 -0400
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On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 6:48 AM, R=C3=BCdiger Sonderfeld
<ruediger@c-plusplus.de> wrote:
> Rasmus <rasmus <at> gmx.us> writes:
>
>>
>> R=C3=BCdiger Sonderfeld <ruediger <at> c-plusplus.de> writes:
>>
>> > I've started writing BibELTeX as an alternative to =3Dox-bibtex.el=3D.
>> >
>> > https://github.com/ruediger/bibeltex
>>
>> Would you consider providing a test file showing off its features?
>
> I added a file test/example.org.  Put bibeltex.el somewhere in your load-=
path
> and require it.  This should be enough to make it work (use unload-featur=
e to
> remove it again).
>
> You can then export the document to any format you like.  Good test case =
is
> using org-mode export (ox-org.el).

Thank you for this, I've been waiting for this capability a long time.
I look forward to giving it a more through test!

Best,
Ista


>
>> I'm skeptical but probably it is 'cause I've misunderstood something!
>> Someone put a lot of thought into writing e.g. biblatex or
>> odt-bibliographies.  Surely(?) we would want to leverage upon those
>> and only have org-support insofar as serving some backend-specific
>> parser enough information to do its work?
>
> Certainly.  BibELTeX is designed to do this.  For LaTeX export it just
> generates the corresponding LaTeX instructions (can be adopted even for
> biblatex).
>
> But except for LaTeX there doesn't seem to be a real support for bibliogr=
aphy.
> It can be simulated for html using bibtex2html (ox-bibtex.el).  But even =
that
> is not compatible with biber/biblatex.  That's the reason behind BibELTeX=
.
>
> Regards
>
>