Re: [Orgmode] Citing articles, bibliography and html export

[Carsten Dominik]

On Feb 10, 2009, at 7:02 PM, David Bremner wrote:

> At Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:33:31 +0100,
> Manuel Hermenegildo wrote:
> > Some time ago I had some success in a similar context (writing an
> > autodocumenter for the Ciao programming language) where I needed to
> > generate citations in a format different from latex.  I managed to do
> > this by writing a new .bst file (the "bibliography style" file that
> > controls the format in which bibtex formats the references that it
> > outputs). Hope it helps. --Manuel
>
> Unless you like forth, bst programming is not much fun. There is also
> e.g. the Text::BibTeX perl module, python-bibtex and probably other
> options parsing for the bibtex format.
>
> There is also ebib [1], a bibtex editor for emacs, but I'm not sure if
> deals with formatting entries, which is the main issue here.

Both reftex-cite.el and bibtex.el have pretty sophisticated
ways to extract info from bibtex databases.  So with a little
bit of lisp, I am sure it is possible to cook something that
would insert references well enough during HTML export.

- Carsten

P.S. No, I am no writing it :-)