Andreas Reuleaux writes: > I have used org-ref in the past and I liked it, > now I am trying to get it working again. > In a way this has become easier: > > * I can install org-ref from Melpa now, instead of > tangling from the org-ref.org file in the past > > * with a fairly simple setup (omitting the details for now, > but can give them of course), and the default > > (setq org-ref-completion-library 'org-ref-helm-bibtex) > > I get to chose my papers/books to cite in a quite comfortable way > when I press C-c ] > > But what does not currently work for me (and what used to work): > getting a choice of citation: cite/citep/citeauthor/nocite/whatever.
To get this, you press C-u enter on the candidate you select, and that should give you a new helm selection for citation type. This is currently only possible in the helm backend. I am not sure if it can be done with ivy yet. > Basically I want > > * a list to choose from in the first place > > * preferrably have my own list of choices, allowing me to focus on the > ones that I really do use (not get distracted by other more exotic > ones), and that what I can also switch on a per document basis > between bitex/natbib/biblatex and the available options there You can customize org-ref-cite-types for this. Make it shorter, a local var, etc... > > I know that org-ref is relying on reftex in this regard, > and when I just use plain reftex, or even (require 'org-ref-reftex), > I get to chose cite/citep/citeauthor etc., but I loose the comfort > of the org-ref-helm-bibtex input method. > > Ideally - I guess I am dreaming - I would want to rely > on ivy (or helm) for narrowing down my choice of cite/citep/citeauthor > etc - rather than type some retex keystroke. > > I got some help from this list in past, how to configure my reftex > list of choices, to use biblatex entries: parencite etc. - thanks again, > and can go through these old emails of mine of course, but I am not > sure in how far these things still apply, given that org-ref has > changed quite a lot in between. Also at the time, I was at least > presented some menu when I typed C-u C-c ] - so it was just a matter I think C-u C-c ] will give a list of labels to make a ref link to. Maybe you don't have any labels, so it looks empty. > of modifying that menu, now I only get to see "pattern:" in the minibuffer. > > Thanks, > Andreas -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
