Richard Lawrence <richard.lawre...@berkeley.edu> writes: > Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> 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:
