On Jan 21, 2010, at 6:20 AM, Taru Karttunen wrote:
Hello
I am wondering whether org-babel would be suitable for managing a
bibtex database of ~1500 entries. I am thinking of making Bibtex
entries into literate source code and thus have org-mode managing
them in a more sensible way.
Has anyone else done something like this? Any better ideas how to
accomplish this?
- Taru Karttunen
Aloha Taru,
This is an interesting idea. I haven't tried it, but I have spent a
lot of effort over many years maintaining a large BibTeX database.
Once bibtex is registered as an Org-babel language, then bibtex mode
would be available for editing entries. Org keywords have an
immediate and obvious use for topical bibliographies. The literate
programming capability of Org-babel might be used to implement an
authority list for author names, which would help solve one of the
biggest problems we have trying to maintain a database with many
contributors.
Please keep me up-to-date as you either implement an org-mode BibTeX
database or decide against it for some reason.
All the best,
Tom
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