Questions tagged [bibtex]
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What does it mean in ebib when a field of an entry is preceeded with an asterisk '*'?
When viewing entries in a database in ebib, some fields of some entries are marked with an asterisk (*). In my case, these are usually year or month field. I don't see a rhyme or reason to the types ...
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Reorder fields using bibtex-mode
I would like to clean up BibTeX entries so that fields always appear in the same order.
For example, I would like the order of fields to always be: author, year, title, journal. So, pressing C-c C-q ...
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Changing the order of the entries of the bibtex-autokey generator-*
I am trying to migrate from Zotero to org-ref, and got stuck when trying to use the doi-utils-add-bibtex-entry-from-doi command. After reading the Automatic Reference Key Generation section and ...
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initialization of bibtex package
When i ran the following code in just started emacs
(with-temp-buffer
(insert "@article{aaaa,
author = {AAA},
title = {BBBB}
}")
(bibtex-mode)
(bibtex-autokey-get-field "title")...
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Change location of latex options (\bibliography{}) in exported .tex file
I just spend hours trying to figure out why bibtex citations don't work. Turns out it's because \bibliography{testbib} needs to come after begin{document}.
This is my test.org:
#+LATEX_HEADER: \...
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How to insert and populate field in multiple bibtex entries automatically
I was wondering if anyone knows what's the function in bibtex that allows you to check if a field exist in an entry?
What I am trying to achieve is use the bibtex-clean-entry but as it is, it throws ...
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What is the difference or functionality between the available tex packages enumrated below
sorry to disturb you. I am trying to migrate all the workflow of writing tex files and managing citations into emacs but I'm completely lost by the overwhelmed plethora of packages and I'm not sure ...
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How to add 'timestamp' and 'owner' to 'bibtex-clean-entry'?
I am a recent and happy user of BibTeX mode (bibtex.el), but there is one thing I can't get to work as I wish. When I create a template, I can enforce insertion of timestamp and owner with:
(defun ...
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Org-mode export to text: exporting citation to plain text
I am trying to generate text files from org files(originally intended for latex>PDF outputs), for submissions that require plain text.
org-file:
#+TITLE: Foo
#+latex_class: article-no-defaults
#+...
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Copy formatted citation from helm-bibtex menu
I'm hoping to add a function "Copy formatted citation" to the helm-bibtex menu. i.e. When I open helm-bibtex, press tab on an entry and have the option there to copy a full formatted reference. ...
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Enabling fuzzy matching in helm-bibtex
Is it possible to enable fuzzy matching in helm-bibtex?
The following example illustrates why it would be very useful to enable it. Imagine that typing "sm" returns these two matches.
Smith 2015
...
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get more fields with bibtex-completion-candidates
In Helm-bibtex the function bibtex-completion-candidatesretrieves selected fields (authors, editors, title, year, type, and key of the
entry) from the .bib file. Is there a way to make it retrieve ...
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How to convert a BibTeX entry into formatted string?
I'd like to be able to export BibTeX entries as (flexibly formatted) strings.
For example, a BibTeX entry like this one:
@Article{Chomsky:59,
author = {Noam Chomsky},
title = {On Certain ...
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How to specify a color theme specifically for Latex editing (the buffers with .tex files)?
I am using Emacs and there are various 'themes', eg. link to examples, but they do not appear to be dedicated to Latex. Some have modes for Latex, but I am wondering if there are theme files that can ...
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Cannot cite anything
I've seen this question: Loading bibtex file in org-mode file as well as this one: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/114864/how-to-get-bibtex-to-work-with-org-mode-latex-export
I've tried ...
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How to create a small bibtex file from a bigger one?
Q: how do I create a stripped-down bibtex file based on the
citations used in a given paper?
I have a single, master bibtex file that contains thousands of
entries. For most papers, I only ever use ...
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Split a complicated string?
Q: how do I split a complicated string when whitespace
delimiters aren't discriminating enough?
Background
I'm working with BibTeX files. I want to split an author string
of the form "first-name ...
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Extract title from bibtex
I want to extract the title of a bibtex entry by using a convenient org-ref function. Is there a way? How?
Im using org-ref with org-mode in spacemacs.
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Ignoring curly braces in search
Journal article titles in my BibTeX appear as follows:
Title="{{E}nsure {C}onsistence {C}apitalization in {T}itles}",
This produces consistence output, which I am happy with. However, searching for ...
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How to set field separators in bibtex-mode's autokey generator?
Q: how do I set a specific separator in bibtex-mode's autokey generator?
Background
I am working
with
bibtex-mode.
It has a feature
to
auto-generate the entry key,
which is customizable.
Goal
My ...
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Syntax highlighting is breaking in long bibtex files (spacemacs bibtex layer)
So I have a long papers.bib bibtex file that I edit with emacs (spacemacs bibtex layer), but the syntax highlighting only ever goes about halfway down. Here it is at about line 790:
Other times this ...
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How to make emacs align and indent a bibtex entry?
I want bibtex-mode to align and properly indent fields. I copied a bibtex entry for the following article into Emacs:
(Article source here)
But, with a simple paste, the alignment is lost in Emacs ...
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AUCTeX doesn't run bibtex even though .emacs file is set up appropriately
I created a simple BibTeX file as well as a simple LaTeX file that references said BibTeX file. However, when I printed out the LaTex file in pdf format by running C-c C-a (which, according to the ...
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How to turn every ALL CAP word in a buffer into Title case?
I need to fix a large .bib file where all proper names are in ALL CAPITALS (thanks ProQuest!)
Is there an elisp function that searches a buffer/region for words in all capitals and turns all ...
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org-export with ox-bibtex outside emacs
I want to write a Makefile that handles org-export with ox-bibtex, e.g.
%.pdf: %.org
emacs $< --batch -l emacs-load.el -f org-latex-export-to-pdf --kill
%.html: %.org
emacs $< -...
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Org-Ref: Managing multiple projects, each with own notes.org files and bibtex-pdfs folders
When using org-ref, the bibliography:ref.bib directive in the notes.org file can be used to direct it to the corresponding ref.bib bibliography. Is there a similar such directive or approach to enable ...
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org-mode and bibtex latex export problem
I followed this and can grab stuff (with Google Scholar) and put it in my ref.org, as described. However when I create a testbibtex.org with this lone line:
\bibliography{ref}
all I get with Latex ...
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How to write an e-lisp function to extract a sub-string between two given characters (not their positions) in a given string?
I am writing an e-lisp function in my .emacs file to help process Bibtex entries I copy from Google-Scholar. Let's consider this example:
@article{jacobsen2011full,
title={A full hydro-and ...
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AUCTeX: Turn on syntax highlighting for natbib commmands under BibLaTeX
I'm using natbib commands like \citep and \citealt under BibLaTeX thanks to the option natbib=true. Yet AUCTeX won't highlight them the way it highlights, for example, \cite (or \parencite, which is ...
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Org-mode latex pdf export command doesn't find citations
I'm trying to write my thesis in org-mode, and so far it feels amazing. The integration with my todo system, the easy markup language, integration with latex. Wow.
But recently (since I upgraded to ...
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align (indent) in bibtex file
I have a bibtex file, and would like to have indentation as follows.
@book{moon70:trees,
AUTHOR = {John W. Moon},
TITLE = {Counting labelled trees},
YEAR = 1970,
...
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How do I replace html <p> tag contents from one html file to another html file
I am having difficulty with bibliography citations in HTML export. I am able to generate two html files with citations, one from the standard html export from an org file, and another from exporting ...
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Possible to view more options in helm-bibtex?
When I use helm-bibtex, I get a screen showing some of the properties of the articles in my .bib file. For example, I get some sort of table where the columns are
|author | title | year | articletype|...
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Helm-bibtex and Bibdesk bibtex intergration
Currently using Bibdesk to organise my references and various associated documents. I would like if possible to use the great addons Helm-bibtex and org-ref.
To specify the location of the PDF ...
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How to modify existing major-mode?
I've made a minor change to the existing code in bibtex.el; to be more precise, I've modified the function bibtex-generate-url-list so that it can generate URLs for several more fields (in addition to ...
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Highlighting missing references
Is it possible for auctex to display missing references differently to ones which are in the bib file? Currently, all references look identical so it's impossible to tell at a glance which citation ...
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bibtex2html options in org-mode publishing
How do I pass the bibtex2html option -nobibsource when publishing via ox-bibtex.el? I have added it directly to the ox-bibtex.el file by commentling out line 265 and adding my own:
;;'("-a" "-nodoc" "...
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Loading bibtex file in org-mode file
I'm trying to use org-mode to do almost everything. In my scientific writing activity, I would like to sketch a whole paper in an .org file and then export in LaTeX. I don't want to load the .bib ...
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org-mode and reftex giving this error: reftex-using-biblatex-p: Stack overflow in regexp matcher
I'm trying to set upt org-mode and reftex-mode but I'm getting some troubles. Here is my init.el file:
;; ORG-MODE
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.org\\'" . org-mode))
(setq org-agenda-files '("...
