Questions tagged [helm-bibtex]
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Notes and PDF symbols not appearing in helm-bibtex
I have set values of bibtex-completion-bibliography, bibtex-completion-notes-path and bibtex-completion-library-path in a .dir-locals.el file. The .dir-locals file looks like this: ;;; Directory Local ...
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additional PDFs in helm-bibtex
I daily use helm-bibtex to manage my citations / bibliography and add in the file field the path to the PDF of the related article. I've read it was possible to add supplementary files (additional ...
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debugging helm-bibtex cannot open PDF with the default emacs viewer
I cannot get helm-bibtex open pdfs from the helm-bibtex buffer with all bibliography nicely listed in an organized view showing which reference has a pdf or not. I usually get this view by M-x helm-...
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emacs unable to open PDF files in Preview: "permission denied"
This is not an emacs problem so far as I'm aware, and only occurred after I upgraded from macOS Catalina 10.15.? to 10.15.7. Any help resolving this issue is greatly appreciated. I'm using helm-bibtex ...
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Org-ref: how to get the BibTex entries in Helm sorted alphabetically? // what is "org-ref-helm-cite"?
Sorry if my question is not clear enough, I'm really a beginner. In 2017 someone was trying to sort alphabetically (or by date I guess also) references when using org-ref and helm-bibtex - see the ...
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emacs 26.1 "Symbol’s function definition is void: bibtex-completion-candidates-formatter"
I have updated to Emacs 26.1. and reinstalled all packages. When running helm-bibtex, the bibliographies are loaded, but then the process terminates with the following error message: helm-bibtex-...
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How to efficiently insert citations into LaTeX document with helm-bibtex?
I'm having a heck of a time optimizing my desired \cite behavior when writing LaTeX source in emacs using helm-bibtex. I made a C-c [ key-binding to get helm-bibtex going when I want to insert a ...
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Each time I save a file, Spacemacs will try and parse my bibliography bibtex file. How can I stop that?
I use Spacemacs and it is great. But for some reason, each time I save a file--usually an org file, Spacemacs will try and parse my default bibtex file. And that file is relatively large, so it adds a ...
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Citations with page numbers from helm-bibtex and org-ref
I currently use org-ref and helm-bibtex with one notes file per source to manage my library. For any given source, I may have several headers, each for notes on different chapters or topics I have ...
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Editing helm-bibtex citations in markdown
Helm-bibtex can insert one or multiple (with C-space) citation in some markdown document. I have, however, not found a way to edit these citations afterwards using helm-bibtex. If I call helm-bibtex ...
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"if" clause within s-format string
Is it possible to add an "if" clause to a s-format string? The code below is adapted from bibtex-completion-apa-format-reference in the helm-bibtex package. (s-format "${...
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Get bibtex key from helm-bibtex
I would like to get the bibtex key of references in my .bib database as a string via helm-bibtex. (defun get-bibtex-key () (interactive) (with-temp-buffer (helm-bibtex) (if (string-prefix-...
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can't follow cite links with org-ref and can't open PDFs with helm-bibtex
I'm working with org-ref, helm-bibtex (and org-roam and an org-roam-bibtex if that's relevant). I've somehow broken my config and would really appreciate any help gathering the pieces... I can see my ...
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How to configure org-roam-bibtex properly?
I'm using org-roam with doom-emacs and I want to know how to properly configure org-roam-bibtex? I copied the org-roam-bibtex config from https://github.com/jethrokuan/dots/blob/master/.doom.d/config....
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helm-bibtex and Zotero with better-bibtex -- Cannot find PDF
Using org-ref and helm-bibtex I can insert a reference into my org file that will be displayed as a link in the shape of cite:kaufmann_eigensolver_2007. I can hit RET and get a menu from helm-bibtex ...