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

[Carsten Dominik]

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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