Responding to just a few of the excellent points raised by J 7 E On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Erik Hetzner <e...@e6h.org> wrote:
> At Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:47:30 +0530, > Jambunathan K wrote: > > > > > I should note that while the org/zotero integration in zotero-plain > “works for me”, I would welcome changes to make it more robust and > feature-full. But I use org for notes and todo lists, not for document > production. > I'm trying to switch to using org for most of my writing; among other things, I now use it for posting to wordpress and (hopefully soon) drupal, where most of my teaching work takes place. So I htink there's a case to make for org as a person's main workspace. > > > Instead of working with JS libraries, I think the right starting point > > would be to work with the underlying zotero.sqlite database itself. It > > is not difficult to get a key of the selected item in Zotero > > pane[3]. Once this is done the underlying zotero.sqlite database could > > be queried for the item properties[4]. > Wouldn't the rigt target be, not the sqlite db, but the Zoteor *service* that runs on port 50001 when Zotero is running? Aren't there some higher-level tools for working through that interface -- e.g., erik, your rst tool uses a python library, does it talk to Zotero that way? > > > > Fortunately there is already a GUI/Command line tool - Gnotero[5] -for > > accessing the sqlite database. > > This would certainly work. However, one problem would be that gnotero > cannot generate formatted citations from a reference, that is, it > cannot use CSL [2] style rules to generate arbitrary citation > formats. This might be fine; some simple c > > > As for exploiting the power of using zotero within libreoffice - which > > is to have the same citation presented in different citation styles - > > one need to look at how the reference marks are produced within > > OpenDocument XML. > > Not only that, but how the LibreOffice plugin communicates with > Zotero, specifically the citeproc-js [1] part of Zotero, to generate > in-text citations, bibliographies, etc. > so, couldn't one think of the problem as having three parts: (1) get emacs to talk to the zotero server; and (2) figure out how org/emacs should interact with citeproc (3) translate the org zotero links into a syntax that LibreOffice recognizes and can successfully manipulate and am I further right that, as an interim measure, solving (1) and (3) properly and throwing together a quick hack for (2) -- in which org supports exactly one, very simple citation style -- would make a workflow possible in which a person could compose in Org, and translate to ODT for the final processing of a document, and/or export to HTML using only the one citaqtion style that is supported by the aforementioned hack? thanks again for all the help, folks, matt
