Re: citations: org-cite vs org-ref 3.0

[Dominik Schrempf]

“Bruce D’Arcus” <bdarcus@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 4:21 PM Dominik Schrempf
> <dominik.schrempf@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> For what it’s worth, I use `org-ref` because fine-grained citation export 
>> with
>> LaTeX (using BibTeX or BibLaTeX) only works with `org-ref`, and not with
>> `org-cite`.
>
> Part of the challenge is this isn’t an apples-apples comparison;
> org-cite a framework, and it’s the processors that really provide the
> functionality.
>
>> If I remember correctly, `org-cite` exports the formatted citations into the
>> LaTeX file …
>
> This is not true.

Thanks for correcting me on that. I remember having LaTeX files with full
citations in them, but maybe I messed something up.

>
> Or rather, it’s only true if you use the oc-csl export processor; you
> can use other export processors (like oc-biblatex) to get whatever
> LaTeX output you want, and …
>
>>  …. it is really difficult to use different style files, etc. With
>> `org-ref`, I can use BibLaTeX with specific style files. (Journal require
>> different style files). I can even use my personal LaTeX classes (with 
>> specific
>> bibliography styles) for Org export.
>
> … I believe Nicolas recently added support for customizing the
> export styles for biblatex.
>
> Bruce

When I tried setting `org-cite` up, it didn’t work. Maybe I should give it
another try at some point. For now, I am happy with `org-ref`.