Re: Preserving leading zeros

2023-05-29 Thread Ihor Radchenko
William Denton writes: > I'm thinking about moving a personal library catalogue system into Org. This > would involve ISBNs, and when ISBNs had 10 digits some would have leading > zeros. > It turns out leading zeros are removed when something looks like a number. > > #+name:isbn > | 000614539

Re: Preserving leading zeros

2023-05-28 Thread tomas
On Sun, May 28, 2023 at 01:50:15PM -0400, William Denton wrote: > On 28 May 2023, Berry, Charles wrote: > > > Have you considered http://gewhere.github.io/org-bibtex ?? > > > > Or using the approach therein, viz. use properties to store bib data in org? > > That would be great for a smaller bibl

Re: Preserving leading zeros

2023-05-28 Thread William Denton
On 28 May 2023, Berry, Charles wrote: Have you considered http://gewhere.github.io/org-bibtex ?? Or using the approach therein, viz. use properties to store bib data in org? That would be great for a smaller bibliography, but I'm dealing with over 2,400 books. They're in a simple database n

Re: Preserving leading zeros

2023-05-28 Thread Berry, Charles
William, Have you considered http://gewhere.github.io/org-bibtex ?? Or using the approach therein, viz. use properties to store bib data in org? HTH, Chuck > On May 28, 2023, at 7:46 AM, William Denton wrote: > > I'm thinking about moving a personal library catalogue system into Org. This >

Preserving leading zeros

2023-05-28 Thread William Denton
I'm thinking about moving a personal library catalogue system into Org. This would involve ISBNs, and when ISBNs had 10 digits some would have leading zeros. It turns out leading zeros are removed when something looks like a number. #+name:isbn | 0006145396 | #+begin_src shell :results output