(future) feature request: support citations to bibtex references

[holtzermann17]

There is some discussion in the Emacs Humanities mailing list about Org mode's support for BibTeX items. See thread Citations in org-mode, Greg Bognar, 2021/02/08, here. Presently there's no "standard" solution, however the thread above also points to a long thread in the Org Mode list about adding citation syntax directly to Org Mode, so presumably it will be supported there sometime.

https://orgmode.org/list/CAF-FPGOkFoduNuNyN-Atsg21emqcVj2SXEkYp1XCfqum5y0MBg@mail.gmail.com/

For future-readiness I thought it would be good to create this ticket and note that there is a "feature complete" BibTeX parser for Rust:

• https://docs.rs/nom-bibtex/0.3.0/nom_bibtex/

And also a "faithful" BiBTeX parser in Clojure.

• https://github.com/chbrown/bartleby

[holtzermann17]

https://michel-kraemer.github.io/citeproc-java/#what-is-citeproc-java is maybe worth looking into for parity with https://github.com/andras-simonyi/citeproc-org — here's a screenshot produced using the latter and org-html-export-to-html:

[reyman]

Hi !

Now that org-mode has an official support for citation since july 2021, is there some chance to see bibliography management into firn :) ?

• https://blog.tecosaur.com/tmio/2021-10-31-release.html#new-citation-engine
• https://blog.tecosaur.com/tmio/2021-07-31-citations.html

Best regards !

[teesloane]

Hi @reyman !

I do not think that the parser Firn uses parses citations at this point (it hasn't been updated in a while). I'll poke around this week and double check.

[reyman]

Thanks @teesloane ! Did you receive my (french) mail ;) ?