Re: [Ebib-users] mastersthesis

[Joost K. <joo...@fa...>]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 06:19:41AM -1000, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
> Joost Kremers <joo...@fa...> writes:
> Eric Schulte added this functionality to org-bibtex a while back.  I
> think this might be the appropriate part of org-bibtex.el:
> 
> (require 'bibtex)
> (eval-when-compile
>   (require 'cl))
> 
> (defvar description nil) ; dynamically scoped from org.el
> (defvar org-id-locations)
> 
> (declare-function bibtex-beginning-of-entry "bibtex" ())
> (declare-function bibtex-generate-autokey "bibtex" ())

Hmmm... I see, thanks. So how is your colleague's workflow exactly, if I may
ask? bibtex-generate-autokey reads a bibtex entry from a buffer and then
generates a key. But that seems to imply that there is already a properly
formatted bibtex entry, that is, one with a key. Do you provide temporary keys,
which are then replaced as the fields are filled?

That wouldn't be difficult to duplicate in Ebib, I think. Instead of having to
type a key, Ebib would provide a temporary key, which is then replaced with an
autogenerated key when the fields are filled in.


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Joost Kremers
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