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From: | Thomas S. Dye |
Subject: | Re: [Orgmode] org-babel: Managing a bibtex database |
Date: | Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:01:29 -1000 |
On Jan 21, 2010, at 6:20 AM, Taru Karttunen wrote:
Hello I am wondering whether org-babel would be suitable for managing a bibtex database of ~1500 entries. I am thinking of making Bibtex entries into literate source code and thus have org-mode managing them in a more sensible way. Has anyone else done something like this? Any better ideas how to accomplish this? - Taru Karttunen
Aloha Taru,This is an interesting idea. I haven't tried it, but I have spent a lot of effort over many years maintaining a large BibTeX database.
Once bibtex is registered as an Org-babel language, then bibtex mode would be available for editing entries. Org keywords have an immediate and obvious use for topical bibliographies. The literate programming capability of Org-babel might be used to implement an authority list for author names, which would help solve one of the biggest problems we have trying to maintain a database with many contributors.
Please keep me up-to-date as you either implement an org-mode BibTeX database or decide against it for some reason.
All the best,Tom
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