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Manage zotero collections from emacsemacs.
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emacs interface for zotero #1

Closed yyr closed 9 years ago

yyr commented 12 years ago

Hello this is more of zotero question.

I am new to zotero. as emacs user I instantly found your zotexo and tried it. It is working like a magic.

One problem is if a reference has not had all keys, the generated bibtex coming with question marks like "????" for unknown fieild. Thats fine. I can modify in my generated bibtex and useit.

Is there way the changes I made to bibtex syncback to zotero.? Or even better is it possible to edit zotero keys/tags from emacs by interacting with zotero api.? Or more fancy thought, an interface like magit for git?

Thanks.

PS: I know nothing about js programming and mozrepl and how zotexo.el is working. may be that is why I asking this not so viable question.

vspinu commented 12 years ago

One problem is if a reference has not had all keys, the generated bibtex coming with question marks like "????" for unknown fieild. Thats fine. I can modify in my generated bibtex and useit.

Hm. It's only unknown date. Like

@misc{refmanothers.pdf????, title = {refman(others).pdf} },

zotero exporter is using year in the name of the reference. You just have to go to zotero and modify the year field.

Is there way the changes I made to bibtex syncback to zotero.

No, zotero doesn't support this. There is import, but that's a different story. Zotexo can support only actions that zotero allows.

Or is it possible to edit zotero keys/tags from emacs by interacting with zotero api.

This a very interesting idea. Would be great to put some effort in this direction. My primary concern is to add notes to zotero items, as I hate using zotero lame editing interface.

I am currently finishing my PhD, so won't have time on this during next months. I leave this issue open; may be somebody will decide to contribute, may be you? :)

yyr commented 12 years ago

@vitoshka I am also preparing my thesis for PhD. I will also be busy for next few months.. But I would really be interested in contributing at least in the elisp end.

Thanks for taking time to comment and for zotexo.

andersjohansson commented 12 years ago

I would like to point out that the BibTeX-keys are generated by Zotero's BibTeX-translator and not stored in the Zotero database. There has been much discussion about this over at Zotero forums. For example here, here and here.