ebib
A BibTeX database manager for Emacs. (by joostkremers)
translation-server
A Node.js-based server to run Zotero translators (by zotero)
| ebib | translation-server | |
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| 6 | 7 | |
| 270 | 115 | |
| - | 0.9% | |
| 7.8 | 4.9 | |
| 7 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Emacs Lisp | JavaScript | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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ebib
Posts with mentions or reviews of ebib.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-08.
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Guide to Org Cite
YMMV, but I would personally recommend ebib + zotra as a Zotero replacment. I used Zotero and org-cite for a few months but then dropped Zotero and went for a pure Emacs solution. I'm very pleased with the results.
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[Update] Zotra: using the power of Zotero in Emacs to manage citations and pdf files
Nice work! I switch from Zotero to ebib and have used the Zotero translation server for a long time. It's nice to see a dedicated package. It would be much appreciated if you could support ebib like https://github.com/joostkremers/ebib/issues/220 then I can remove the funs in my configs.
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How do YOU write academic papers in org-mode?
Yes, I do use a citation manager. I've used Zotero with BibLatex export in the past, but now use ebib directly inside Emacs (and which directly reads and writes Bib(La)tex). Pandoc's use of CSL for citation styling is really convenient, and mostly works great. I wasn't so sure if I could format citations and references just as easily using org-export.
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use-package :bind blocks the default keybindings for ebib-biblio. Without :bind they work (but I don't get my own ones with :bind). Why is this happening and how can I fix it?
This didn't work. I got a warning that the package ebib-biblio could not be found. I realised that this was because I was using the straight version of use-package, which (only?) looks for packages in the repos, when in this case ebib-biblio is distributes as part of ebib. This didn't produce any warnings:
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Writers, what are your favorite underrated packages?
ebib.
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Bibtex/Bibliograpy options in Org-mode - Suggestions Wanted
An emacs-only solution would be the ebib package (https://github.com/joostkremers/ebib).
translation-server
Posts with mentions or reviews of translation-server.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-10.
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Zotra is now on MELPA: The power of Zotero in Emacs
This is done using Zotero translators, so it basically has the full power of Zotero. There is no need for the Zotero client, but it needs to connect to either Zotero translation server or zotra-cli as the backend.
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Ideas ??
Run a local Zotero Translator Server. I can then use the Zotero API to add items to my Zotero library library already sorted and tagged.
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[Update] Zotra: using the power of Zotero in Emacs to manage citations and pdf files
Yeah, Zotero and Zotero translation server are not identical. For example, see https://github.com/zotero/translation-server/pull/59 If there are places where Zotero works and Zotero translation server doesn't, it would be best to open an issue in the translation server repo and take it from there. If this is an issue that's easy to solve, but the translation server doesn't want to implement it, I might be able to add it to zotra-cli.
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Download PDF from url
To do so, I am using this package to get Zotero's capability of finding metadata about any paper. I also made a small modification to the source code to enable attachments to outputs. Attachments are basically the URLs to the papers that are freely available online. My problem now is use this URL to actually download the paper.
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Using the power of Zotero in Emacs org-mode to manage citations
You're welcome :) You're right, the translation server can't handle urls to pdf files. I'm not sure if this is being worked on: https://github.com/zotero/translation-server/issues/70
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ebib and translation-server you can also consider the following projects:
org-ref-cite - An org-cite processor that is like org-ref.
zotra
straight.el - 🍀 Next-generation, purely functional package manager for the Emacs hacker.
biblio-zotero - Retrieve BibTeX entries from various sources
Emacs-langtool - LanguageTool for Emacs
zotra-server
org-super-links-peek - Take a peek at the content on the other side of a link
visual-fill-column - Emacs mode for wrapping visual-line-mode buffers at fill-column.
org-super-links - Package to create links with auto backlinks
olivetti - Emacs minor mode to automatically balance window margins
org-fc - Spaced Repetition System for Emacs org-mode