On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 10:20 AM Vikas Rawal <vikasra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Bruce and John. Indeed, I used biblatex with natbib=true > option, which gives me citet and citep in biblatex. But using > \autocite and \textcite is perfect. > > I am noticing a few other issues at this stage. > > I have a large biblatex database, and loading it using C-c C-x @ to > insert citations seems very slow (have not managed to load it thus > far). Org-ref used to be much faster in this. org-cite works fine with > a smaller biblatex database. I don't know if others have had the same > experience. Give this a try: https://github.com/bdarcus/bibtex-actions#org-cite I hope to see similar "insert processors" for ivy-bibtex and helm-bibtex. Bottomline, it's trivial to replace that "basic" processor with much better options. See discussion on: https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref/issues/885 > I understand that oc-biblatex.el loads biblatex in the background, > produces the citations and the bibliography, and inserts them in the > exported output. In that case, what are the possibilities of using > biblatex commands to configure the output? To be precise, you mean what are the options to configure the oc-biblatex export processor to use different or additional commands? ATM, I don't believe there are any, and the alternative is to write your own export processor, say basing it off the oc-biblatex one. What, specifically, do you need, that is not currently supported? The current processors are pretty comprehensive; see the note from Andras. When designing this sort of thing, you basically have a choice. You can just have styles that map directly to the output targets. This has an obvious advantage if you only ever use one target. But it has a major disadvantage if you want to use others. So the approach we took here is to design a common set of styles and substyles, and then map to output formats from there. The result is the citations are more-or-less export format agnostic. > I realise that these will > not work since most of it would be LaTeX specific. Does that mean the > users will have to work with CSL styles to format the output even if > they are using oc-biblatex.el? I am still somewhat confused about how > this is going to work. CSL styles are analogous to BST files in bibtex; you use those with oc-csl. When using that, citeproc-el handles the output processing, including for latex. Basically, if you want consistent output formatting across latex and other targets like HTML or OpenDocument, you want to use oc-csl. Give it a try. Note, though, that citeproc-el does not currently support cite/t or some others, but that should be coming "soon". HTH; let me know if anything is unclear. Bruce