Re: [O] [ANN] org-bibtex.el --- convert between Org headings and bibtex entries

[Eric Schulte]

Christian Moe <address@hidden> writes:

> Cool! Thanks for this. I understand the Fireforg project provides part
> of this functionality (integrated with Zotero), but this free-standing
> tool looks helpful. Three quick comments:
>
> - I tried to just put this on my load path and require it, but there
> seems to be a name conflict with the existing org-bibtex.el, which
> provides for BibTeX links.
>

Oh, good point, I suppose if this is ever winds up in the contrib
directory of Org-mode it will need a name change (although no alternate
options immediately jump to mind).  In the interim I guess you are best
off explicitly loading the file with `load'.

>
> - Trying to create a book type entry, I get prompted only for
> :editor', not for `:author'.
>

Thanks, this is now fixed.

>
> - Fireforg namespaces the property names with a `BIB_',
> e.g. `:BIB_author:', and some people might find that useful as an
> option.
>

I just added a new variable `org-bibtex-prefix' which could be set to
e.g., "BIB_" to use such a name prefix.

>
> - I'd find it helpful with a user option for org-bibtex-fleshout to
> prompt for optional fields as well.
>

Agreed, when `org-bibtex-check' or `org-bibtex-check-all' are called
with a prefix argument, they will call `org-bibtex-fleshout' with an
optional argument which will result in the inclusion of optional fields.

Best -- Eric

>
> Yours,
> Christian
>
>
> On 4/20/11 1:52 AM, Eric Schulte wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In an attempt to organize my reading notes, I've written the following
>> tool which allows both for exporting Org-mode headlines with bibtex
>> meta-data to bibtex entries, and for reading existing bibtex entries
>> into Org-mode headings.
>>
>> One nice feature of these functions is the ability to check that all
>> required fields are present in a given headline based on the bibtex type
>> (e.g., :article, :inproceedings), and prompt for missing fields.
>>
>> See the top of the elisp file for more usage information.
>> https://github.com/eschulte/org-bibtex/blob/master/org-bibtex.el
>>
>> Cheers -- Eric
>>
>
>

-- 
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/