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Renders Org-mode citations in CSL styles using citeproc-el.
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Snag : How to use more than one bib file ? #19

Closed EmmanuelCharpentier closed 3 years ago

EmmanuelCharpentier commented 3 years ago

I wanted to use more than one bibliography file for my references : for professional reasons, my reference database, maintained in Zotero, is humongous (about 15000 references today), and I export small parts of this database via BetterBibtex to .bib files.

The org ref's author suggests to mention them in the same bibliography link, separated by commas. This fails with citeproc : 

[[bibliography:Modernes.bib,Antiques.bib]]

gives me the message : 

Opening input file: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type, /home/charpent/Temporaire/Org-mode/Refs/Modernes.bib,Antiques.bib

I also tried : 

[[bibliography:Modernes.bib]]
[[bibliography:Antiques.bib]]

which failed on the first reference to a citation in Antiques.bib : 

citeproc-render-bib: Wrong type argument: listp, "NO_ITEM_DATA:Bayes:63"

Similar results when I invert the order of the links, i. e. failure at the first reference to a citation in Modernes.bib.

I'm stuck, with a use case I do not think exceptional...

EDIT : I forgot to specify that working with a single link to a concatenation of the files works, obviously...

andras-simonyi commented 3 years ago

Hi, thanks for the report! If I remember correctly this is not yet supported but very easy to add -- will do it shortly.

mohkale commented 3 years ago

I've just started trying to render my org-roam brain through ox-hugo and this is something I'm missing. Is there anything I can do to help @andras-simonyi?

EmmanuelCharpentier commented 3 years ago

BTW : won't this be obsoleted by the upcoming org-cite system ? Nicolas Gaziou has built org-cite-csl.el around citeproc.el, with impressive (but not perfect) results (see this new issue against the latter).

andras-simonyi commented 3 years ago

Hello, sorry for responding only now. I've posted a general note on the status of citeproc-org in the light of the recent developments in org-cite and oc-csl (which is in many ways a [friendly] fork of citeproc-org ). As regarding this particular issue, it should be fixed in the new org_cite_backports branch: now one can have a comma separated list (without spaces) of bib files in the bibliography link. I'd appreciate your feedback if you give it a try.

andras-simonyi commented 3 years ago

Because of the implemented fix and in the absence of activity I'm closing this issue.