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Org-Ref: Managing multiple projects, each with own notes.org files and bibtex-pdfs folders
I think you need to put the local variables in two places, which is the org file and the bib file. The issue is that the notes functions are called while the bibtex buffer is active, so the local ...
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Changing the order of the entries of the bibtex-autokey generator-*
The order of the components of the key are hard-coded, so you can't change them with a user option. However, you can re-write the function to set the order you want. You need to load your modified ...
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Can't choose citation types using org-ref
You may want to change the default citation type in your init.el file to the one you use a lot, e.g.:
(setq org-ref-default-citation-link "citep")
C-u is for a universal-argument in regular emacs. I ...
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Org-ref: how to get the BibTex entries in Helm sorted alphabetically?
Helm Bibtex entries are presented in the reverse of the order in which they appear in your .bib file: https://github.com/tmalsburg/helm-bibtex/issues/21
You can reverse this order with the following ...
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How to configure org-roam-bibtex properly?
I could succesfully config org-roam-bibtex after a lot of tries.
This is my config if someone finds useful. I copied all the config from https://rgoswami.me/posts/org-note-workflow/
The part that gave ...
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ORG-REF: Indicate just path where to search for bib files?
You can do this to add all the .bib files in that directory:
(require 'f)
(setq org-ref-default-bibliography (f-files "~/Dropbox/Bib" (lambda (f) (f-ext? f "bib"))))
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How to properly name or label pictures in org mode?
It is convenient to use a prefix like fig: in a name when you use something like org-ref that uses completion to insert references using all the "labels" in the document to the thing you ...
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Org-ref: how to get the BibTex entries in Helm sorted alphabetically?
It is possible to use a different backend than helm-bibtex which offers different sorting options. The org-ref-helm-cite backend allows you to sort by key, year and first author lastname (both ...
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Small database-like org files that can be accessed in other org files?
Suppose instead of putting all your reagents in one file, and then looking them up you use a syntax like:
#+attr_org: :type reagents
| Tween 20 | Sigma-Aldrich | batch-1 |
| acetone | Fisher |...
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Org-ref, Exporting org file to HTML with its style exactly same as a specific scientific journal
org-ref does not play well (natively) with docx, odt or html export. Its creator (J. Kitchin) explains why in several blog posts.
I don't know if this is the canonical (or even a good) way to proceed, ...
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Generate .bib local bbliography with all the bibtex entries cited in an org document
If you are using org-ref see org-ref-extract-bibtex-entries or org-ref-extract-bibtex-to-file.
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How to insert and populate field in multiple bibtex entries automatically
To check if a field exists, one approach is:
(defun bibtex-field-exists-p (field)
(save-excursion
(bibtex-beginning-of-entry)
(let ((entry (bibtex-parse-entry)))
(assoc field entry))))...
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Copy formatted citation from helm-bibtex menu
You can add something like this to your init file to do that.
(helm-add-action-to-source
"Copy formatted citation(s)"
(lambda (_)
(kill-new
(mapconcat 'identity
...
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Using org-ref in beamer mode
You have to allow frame breaking by adding the corresponding Beamer option as an Org property to the slide heading:
* References
:PROPERTIES:
:BEAMER_opt: allowframebreaks,label=
:END:
...
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Highlighting missing references
In a similar approach to @giordano, I would suggest you have a look at the excellent Org-Ref, which is a collection of org-mode modules for citations, cross-references, bibliographies in org-mode and ...
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Extract title from bibtex
Here's a basic function to look up the entry and title based on the citation at point (bibtex-completion is a dependency of org-ref):
(defun my/print-reference-title ()
"Print the title to the ...
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Org-ref with biblatex - is it feasible or should bibtex be preferred?
Org-ref supports standard bibtex and biblatex as far as I know. So far neither of those has been a limitation.
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Org-ref associate entry with local file
Take a look at the documentation of org-ref-get-pdf-filename-function. You can set it to either org-ref-get-mendeley-filename or org-ref-get-pdf-filename-helm-bibtex. Both the variants support ...
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helm-bibtex and Zotero with better-bibtex -- Cannot find PDF
I had the same problem. In my case, it was fixed by setting org-ref-get-filename-function:
(setq org-ref-get-pdf-filename-function
(lambda (key) (car (bibtex-completion-find-pdf key))))
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Using org-ref to download pdfs using sci-hub as a fallback
Disclaimer Use it at your own risk.
You have to add one new function and update another. Both can be declared in your init.el file as follows
1- The sci-hub-pdf-url function is
;; Sci-hub
(defun sci-...
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Org-ref: how to get absolute path of bibliography in exported LaTeX file
A feature to set absolute path for bib file has been merged in org-ref. Update org-ref and add (setq org-ref-latex-bib-resolve-func #'expand-file-name).
See org-ref github issues here and here.
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Trying to install org-ref package, but getting error 'emacs-25.1' unavailable
You need to upgrade your emacs to at least Emacs 25.1.
I'm not sure if each Ubuntu LTS provides updated stable packages beyond the point they released the distro, emacs26 now, but if not you can ...
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Multiple citations with just one pair of braces
Try
some well-studied fact [[cite:foo2002,bar1997,baz2019]]
That is, mulitple cite labels within a single org link. Note the double [[...]] although if you simply type cite:xxx it should make it an ...
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helm-bibtex and Zotero with better-bibtex -- Cannot find PDF
You seem to be on a MAC, but the PDF key in the bibtex contains a Windows path. Maybe Zotero should export differently?
Not sure if this helps but I setup the variable
(setq bibtex-completion-...
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How do you create an org-ref harvard style in-text citation - with a page number - using shortcuts?
If you know the bibtex key you want to cite then you can use org-insert-link to do this. Usually that is bound to C-c C-l, you will be prompted for what kind of link, you can choose cite (the ...
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How to capture fields from bibtex by using org-ref
As stated in the comments, the statement (setq-default case-fold-search nil) conflicts somehow with the org-ref-open-bibtex-notes. The emacs wiki mentions that case-fold-search set to nil means that ...
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Using minibuffer while the cursor is on a org-ref citation link
from the org-ref manual:
Controlling link messages and tooltips
Org-ref is setup to provide messages in the minibuffer when your cursor is on a link, and tooltips when your mouse hovers over a link. ...
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Partial export: expanding #+INCLUDE keywords
I am beginning to suspect that, in Emacs, the best way to find out answers is to look though the source code... Looking through the code of org-export-as reveals the answer: org-export-expand-include-...
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Partial export: expanding #+INCLUDE keywords
You could use the amusingly named function (org-org-export-as-org), which will export to a buffer named *Org ORG Export* with all the #+INCLUDE lines expanded. Then you could do your further ...
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Using `with-silent-modifications` when modifying the buffer and undoing those modifications without using `undo`
Yes, it should be safe (assuming you're careful enough to make sure that the buffer is really unchanged in the end).
But be careful: if the code that is run while the buffer is modified is complex ...
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