Raghav given Pierre's assessment I just wanted to suggest some potential Zotero alternatives.
They would require using a document compiler like latex, groff or pandoc. I do not know if the following have the feature set that you are looking for. I have not used these myself but they would be what I would look at using if I needed to create citations or bibliographies. For use with latex: * biber * texlive-bibtex For use with pandoc: * ghc-pandoc-citeproc For use with emacs/org: * emacs-biblio * emacs-org-ref I do not know if `refer` is included in the `groff` packaged. As an aside it is interesting to see that `emacs-zotxt` is packaged. Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Hi Raghav, > > I'm very sorry, I looked a little too fast (did I look at the wrong > program? :p), and Zotero is actually the very opposite of what it > thought, it's a hard one. > > It turns out that Zotero needs... NodeJS (!) and XULrunner (!!!). > > As long as Guix won't have a recursive importer for NodeJS, it will be > a big hassle to package Zotero. > > Besides, isn't XULrunner deprecated? > > More details there: > https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/client_coding/building_the_standalone_client > > Sorry, I'm out :(
