Re: [O] helm-bibtex questions

[John Kitchin]

>
>> 3.is it possible to ass an option to auto generate a bibkey for a selected
>> citation based on user criteria such as author(date)short-title?
>
> Maintaining the content of the BibTeX file not really in the scope of
> helm-bibtex (I prefer to write my BibTeX entries by hand).  Perhaps
> org-ref or ebib can help here?  Once you have a function that generates
> a new key and inserts it in the BibTeX file, you can easily add it to
> the list of actions in helm-bibtex.

Indeed. See org-ref-clean-bibtex-entry

This adds a key according to some rules, and cleans up the entries in a
lot of ways. We try to always get bibtex entries from a doi (using
doi-utils.el), and they almost always need some "cleaning".

>
> Hope that helps.
>
>   Titus
>
>> thx so much in advance, you and john have given me confidence to finally
>> dive into the whole latex/bibteX world
>>
>> best
>>
>> Z

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