chris <inkbottle...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sunday, 20 March 2022 20:44:50 CET Bruce D'Arcus wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 9:42 AM Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > For citar, why not simply using ivy-bibtex? It supports org-cite, AFAIK. >> >> Not really; or rather minimally. > > I use `org-cite` with a very minimal configuration, and it works very well. I > don't use `ivy` at all. I don't use `helm` at all. Those are very large > framework and should not be forced to people. (I don't use `org-ref`.) These days org-ref does not require helm or ivy, and it does not install them. You can use the core library with any completion backend you want. It uses vanilla completing-read. org-ref does rely exclusively on bibtex-completion at this time. I have not abstracted that out to allow pluggable alternatives like citar. > > I only use `citar` with minimal configuration. I use `vertico` for the > completion. `citar` is simple enough for me to be able to read and understand > a large part of it. > > IMO the more layers of code there are, the more difficult it is to have > things > work right. And similarly with the size of the code. > > Chris > >> >> Ivy-bibtex supports, for example, inserting of org-cite citations, but >> not via org-cite-insert. > > And I have `org-cite-insert` working straight out of the box. > >> >> So there are currently no org-cite processors for ivy-bibtex etc. >> >> Bruce -- 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 Pronouns: he/him/his