Re: [O] org-ref file path to pdf

[John Kitchin]

This doesn't sound like something that should be happening I think. How
current is your org-ref?

I do not use the notes feature so it does not get tested too often. You
may be able to control the format of the notes created with the variable
org-ref-note-title-format if you are using the default notes function
that adds a headline. 


Georg W. Otto writes:

> Dear all,
>
>
> This is probably something that has come up before, but so far I haven't
> found a solution:
>
> My problem concerns automatic file path expansion in my org-ref
> setting. According to the instructions in
>
> https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref
> and
> https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4gudyw/help_me_with_my_orgmode_workflow_for_notetaking/
>
> I set up the paths to my bibliography, my notes and my pdfs like this:
>
> (setq org-ref-bibliography-notes "~/Dropbox/bibliography/notes.org"
>       org-ref-default-bibliography '("~/Dropbox/bibliography/references.bib")
>       org-ref-pdf-directory "~/Dropbox/bibliography/bibtex-pdfs/")
>
>
> Navigation to a bibtex entry and running org-ref-open-bibtex-notes
> creates an orgmode heading in notes.org that contains a link to the pdf
> file of the publication. Unfortunately, that link uses an expanded file
> path, i.e:
> /home/<username>/Dropbox/bibliography/bibtex-pdfs/BibtexKey.pdf
>
> so it is useless when generated by a different user. Would it be
> possible to create a link that does not expand the file path, like this
>
> ~/Dropbox/bibliography/bibtex-pdfs/BibtexKey.pdf
>
> I appreciate your help.
>
> Georg


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