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Re: [O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt
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Matt Lundin |
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Re: [O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt |
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Wed, 02 Dec 2015 18:27:06 -0600 |
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Richard Lawrence <address@hidden> writes:
> Eric S Fraga <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> 2. How would I use this starting from an org-bibtex database (which I
>> typically export to bibtex)?
>
> I can envision a couple of possibilities. One simple option would be to
> switch to managing your reference database with Zotero, by exporting
> from org-bibtex to .bib, and then importing the .bib into Zotero.
>
> I don't want to force that on anyone, though. Another option is to
> use the org-bibtex to produce .bib at export time, and then use Zotero
> to read the .bib and process citations when exporting to non-LaTeX formats.
>
> This second option is more work, as I don't know of any API for loading
> items into Zotero's citation processor in BibTeX format. But given that
> Zotero is able to import .bib files, I imagine this API would not be too
> much work to build.
Given these complexities, it seems that if we went the zotero route we
could end up with a fairly large installation chain (firefox, zotero,
zotxt, plugin for zotero). And this would require installing items from
multiple, heterogeneous sources.
I wonder at this point whether pandoc-citeproc (packaged with pandoc)
would actually be the simpler route. It can parse bibtex files directly
and (as a filter within pandoc) can output formatted citations in org
format.
As a GNU/Linux user, I would find installing zotero and all the add-ons
messier and more cumbersome than installing pandoc and/or node-js (were
we to use citeproc-js) from the command line.
Best,
Matt
Footnotes:
Re: [O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt, John Kitchin, 2015/12/03