From: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
To: Taru Karttunen <taruti@taruti.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: org-babel: Managing a bibtex database
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:01:29 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F446BBFA-2D59-43CD-B1F9-961BD811B11D@tsdye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1264089937-sup-1826@oz.taruti.net>
On Jan 21, 2010, at 6:20 AM, Taru Karttunen wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am wondering whether org-babel would be suitable for managing a
> bibtex database of ~1500 entries. I am thinking of making Bibtex
> entries into literate source code and thus have org-mode managing
> them in a more sensible way.
>
> Has anyone else done something like this? Any better ideas how to
> accomplish this?
>
> - Taru Karttunen
>
Aloha Taru,
This is an interesting idea. I haven't tried it, but I have spent a
lot of effort over many years maintaining a large BibTeX database.
Once bibtex is registered as an Org-babel language, then bibtex mode
would be available for editing entries. Org keywords have an
immediate and obvious use for topical bibliographies. The literate
programming capability of Org-babel might be used to implement an
authority list for author names, which would help solve one of the
biggest problems we have trying to maintain a database with many
contributors.
Please keep me up-to-date as you either implement an org-mode BibTeX
database or decide against it for some reason.
All the best,
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-21 18:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-21 16:20 org-babel: Managing a bibtex database Taru Karttunen
2010-01-21 18:01 ` Thomas S. Dye [this message]
2010-01-22 0:35 ` Torsten Wagner
2010-01-22 1:59 ` Bill Powell
2010-01-22 8:00 ` Torsten Wagner
2010-01-25 18:20 ` Austin Frank
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