Re: [O] exporting zotxt or orgref links to HTML and ODF

[John Kitchin]

I can see how you could have a command insert links from a zotero database. You just need some way to get a list of the keys for that. it looks like zotxt could provide that. if not, it could be a few sqlite commands to get it.

Lets say we have citations like: zotero:zotero-key or address@hidden These are easy to get I think.

I am still unclear on what you do after that. So far I only have used bibtex as the backend database, and there are programs like bibtex and pandox that create the bibliography from it. What is the end format you want? and how would zotero be used to generate the bibliography?

John

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On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Matt Price <address@hidden> wrote:

John,

this does look very powerful.  Do you see a path forward that would help add zotero support to org-ref, probably using Erik's zotxt library?  Does that seem like a worthwhile goal for you?

Matt

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 6:01 PM, John Kitchin <address@hidden> wrote:

With the latest version of org-ref, I can automate export from org
through markdown to docx via pandoc like this:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(defun ox-export-to-docx-and-open ()
 "Export the current org file as a docx via markdown."
 (interactive)
(let* ((bibfile (expand-file-name (car (org-ref-find-bibliography))))
       ;; this is probably a full path
       (current-file (buffer-file-name))
       (basename (file-name-sans-extension current-file))
       (md-file (concat basename ".md"))
       (docx-file (concat basename ".docx")))

  (when (file-exists-p docx-file) (delete-file docx-file))
  (org-export-to-file 'md md-file)
  (shell-command (format
                  "pandoc -s -S --bibliography=%s %s -o %s"
                  bibfile md-file docx-file))
  (org-open-file docx-file '(16))))
#+END_SRC


this works because i defined a markdown format function that converts
the cite link to pandoc format on export. I could avoid the markdown
translation if I could do an org to org export that would do that. With
a little work we could define file tags like:

#+PANDOC_CSL: some-csl-file

that would also get passed to the pandoc command to determine the style
of the citation and bibliography.

Matt Price writes:

> i think I may have seen it these on the list at one point, but it's very
> helpful to be reminded.
>
> I do think that the default fonts, etc., are a bit of an acquired taste for
> humanists; and I've gotten used to using custom styles in html & odt for
> size & placing of images; but even without following the instructions
> carefully, export seems to work, which is pretyt amazing!
>
> Vikas recommends involving pandoc manually, as Erik H. has also suggested
> to me; I would like to aovid doing that if possible, but if it has to be
> done i guess I can find some way of automating it.
>
> There are clearly a lot of options in this space; I am still interested in
> using Zotero if I can, so will continue working with zotxt, but hopefully
> in a way that gets me closer to other people's usage patterns.
>
> thanks,
> Matt
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Vicente Vera <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Hello. Interesting thread!
>> Matt, have you read Vikas guide to writing papers with Org?
>> https://github.com/vikasrawal/orgpaper
>> From my point of view, using LaTeX through Org isn't difficult at all.
>> You'll need to tweak a few things (packages, figures, etc.), but it's
>> definitely easier for a beginner that starting a LaTeX document from
>> scratch.
>> Here's another article about writing LaTeX (social science) papers:
>> https://github.com/kjhealy/workflow-paper
>>

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