converting from org-ref to org-cite
reddit / emacs

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badkey212 · 2022-09-22 16:15

Having used orf-ref for a time, I am currently investigating the
possibilities of org-cite. Is there any smart way to convert citations
in the org-ref style to the org-cite syntax? E.g. I am looking for
something doing the replacement

`[[cite:key]] > [cite:@key]`

if possible also

`[[parencite:key]] > [cite:p,@key]`

and so on. Any ideas?

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rberaldo · 2022-09-22 18:20

I'll be looking forward to the answers to this. Also, does org-cite
have support for cross-referencing?

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bdarcus · 2022-09-22 18:24

No; org-cite focuses exclusively on ... citations.

Org itself does have lightweight support for cross-references,
however.

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bdarcus · 2022-09-22 18:29

There is no parencite style in org; that's the default output.

See table 1 in [this
article](https://blog.tecosaur.com/tmio/2021-07-31-citations.html) for
the style-output mappings.

You can also take a look at the function he uses for the conversion
[here](https://tecosaur.github.io/emacs-
config/config.html#citation,code--4).

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attento_redaz · 2022-09-22 18:37

Looks like a task solvable by regular expression-based find and
replace -- unfortunately, I'm not aware of any ready-made solution.
Incidentally, `[cite:p,@key]` should be `[cite/p:@key]` to be
syntactically correct  if you meant `p` to be the citation style , but
AFAIK the main processors do not support a `p`  style, as brackets are
typically created automatically by the default `[cite:@key]`  form, at
least for author-date citations.

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badkey212 · 2022-09-22 21:10

Sorry for being unclear - I was looking for the conversion function
org-ref-to-org-cite. Thanks for the hint!

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feedhardordietryin · 2022-09-23 09:16

I have made slight adaptions to tecosaurs function to additionally
handle page references. Maybe thats of some help if you use those
(Does not work with citations of the type `[[cite:key-2020]]`, only
`cite:key-2020`):

    (defun org-ref-to-org-cite ()
          "Attempt to convert org-ref citations to org-cite syntax."
          (interactive)
          (let* ((cite-conversions '(("cite" . "//b") ("Cite" .
"//bc")
                                 ("nocite" . "/n")
                                 ("citep" . "") ("citep*" . "//f")
                                 ("parencite" . "") ("Parencite" .
"//c")
                                 ("citeauthor" . "/a/f")
("citeauthor*" . "/a")
                                 ("citeyear" . "/na/b")
                                 ("Citep" . "//c") ("Citealp" .
"//bc")
                                 ("Citeauthor" . "/a/cf")
("Citeauthor*" . "/a/c")
                                 ("autocite" . "") ("Autocite" .
"//c")
                                 ("textcite" . "/text") ("Textcite" .
"/text")
                                 ("notecite" . "/l/b") ("Notecite" .
"/l/bc")
                                 ("pnotecite" . "/l") ("Pnotecite" .
"/l/bc")))
             (cite-regexp (rx (? "[[") (regexp (regexp-opt (mapcar
#'car cite-conversions) t))
                              ":"
                              (group (or (+ (not (any "\n
,.)]}")))))
                              (opt "]")
                              (opt (seq "[" (group (+ (any alnum
","))(opt (seq "\\" (+ alpha))))"]]")))))
        (save-excursion
          (goto-char (point-min))
          (while (re-search-forward cite-regexp nil t)
            (message (format "[cite%s:@%s%s]"
                             (cdr (assoc (match-string 1) cite-
conversions))
                             (match-string 2)
                             (if (match-string 3)
                                 (concat " " (s-replace "\\" "\\\\"
(match-string 3))) (concat ""))))
            (replace-match (format "[cite%s:@%s%s]"
                                   (cdr (assoc (match-string 1) cite-
conversions))
                                   (match-string 2)
                                   (if (match-string 3)
                                       (concat " " (s-replace "\\"
"\\\\" (match-string 3))) (concat ""))))))))

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bdarcus · 2022-09-23 13:25

I end up with an extra bracket at the end:

`[cite:@key]]`

PS - there's also [this function](https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref-
cite/blob/393ffc56fca2f171981832fbc9e98301ca7abdde/org-ref-cite-
compat.el#L31) from John Kitchin.

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feedhardordietryin · 2022-09-23 17:48

> I end up with an extra bracket at the end

Can you post an example org-ref citation where this is happening?

> there's also this function from John Kitchin

I opted to not keep the dependency on org-ref but it's likely more
robust than the hacked together regex above.

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bdarcus · 2022-09-23 18:37

>Can you post an example org-ref citation where this is happening?

I never really used org-ref, but I was using this simple example from
the OP:

`[[cite:key]]`

​

>I opted to not keep the dependency on org-ref but it's likely more
robust than the hacked together regex above.

I played with it a bit, and it seems to have it's own issues, aside
from the dependencies.

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feedhardordietryin · 2022-09-24 08:24

> `[[cite:key]]`

Oh, I see. I've always used either the short form `cite:key` (without
the brackets) or the longer version `[[cite:key][p8]]` that's why I
did not come up.