Marcin Borkowski <mb...@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes: > Dnia 2014-04-05, o godz. 09:46:39 > Richard Lawrence <richard.lawre...@berkeley.edu> napisaĆ(a): > >> I have sometimes run into problems (mostly with BibTeX) when the > > Sorry for being off-topic, but I can't resist: *please* *don't* *use* > *BibTeX*. On the scale of "tools that solve problems" vs. "tools that > create problems" (cf. http://xkcd.com/1343/ ;)), it is located on the > far right.
Now now, the first sentence on http://www.bibtex.org/Using/ says that to use Bibtex, "Just create a plain text file and apply what has been explained in section BibTeX File Format."! It doesn't say anything about how to use the manual. ;) > (For instance, to be able to customize its bibliography style, you > could (a) give up, (b) use some user-friendly (or not) front-end, > having less power than BibTeX itself (obviously!), or (c) learn > BibTeX's own, very peculiar, stack-based ad-hoc language grown to > describe bibliography styles. Not good. Also, if you're unlucky and > you write in some non-English language, well, you're unlucky with > BibTeX, especially if e.g. your name starts with a non-Latin letter. > Etc.) I mostly use bibtex because that's what I learned, and none of these issues apply to me at this (early) stage in my career. I have no need for customizing my bibliography style. I suppose this will matter more to me when I start sending things out for publication, but at this point I'm still just trying to write the damn dissertation... > Use biblatex instead. It's more modern, it's being supported, it > knowns that there exist things like UTF-8 and non-English languages, > it supports more citation styles etc. I have heard this, but haven't investigated biblatex because I haven't yet really felt the need. I keep my reading list and notes in Org, then export them to a .bib file using org-bibtex. Does biblatex support .bib files? If not, what would be required to support a biblatex-based workflow in Org? Thanks for keeping me honest! Best, Richard