[dundee] Emacs and org-mode

[Nistur]

As I have been using emacs, there is an emacs mode (of course) for BibTex :P

I think it was mainly that which confused me.
Also, still not sure what "compiling twice" means (apart from the
obvious... I mean, why compile twice?)
but I guess if I use emacs to do that... it'll do it automagically
when I export :P

I do really wish that I'd used BibTex. I still have around 2,000 words
I should write on my dissertation, and probably a further 2,000 that I
will end up writing on top of that. If I have everything done in time
I _may_ convert my references to using BibTex. We shall see.

Nistur

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Axel <newsletter at axelbor.de> wrote:
> BibTex is brilliant and make your live easier, but please don't write
> the bib file by oneself.
>
> Use something such as KBibTex to crate and manage the bib file. A
> benefit is you can just key in the title into the search field and
> download all other information from the internet.
>
> There is also support for is brilliant Harvard style (*lol*):
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/harvard/ There is
> no warranty, I never use this packages.
>
>
> Quoting Kris Davidson <davidson.kris at gmail.com>:
>
>> Bibtex is fairly easy its just standard LaTeX in a different file,
>> makes referencing a bit more automated.
>>
>> for example in my abertaydissertation.tex I have:
>>
>> % Bibliography
>> \nocite{*} % include everything in the abertaydissertation.bib file
>> \bibliographystyle{plain} % I hate Harvard referencing its for
>> humanities students, stupid university.
>> \bibliography{abertaydissertation}
>>
>> ... use of internal private addresses \cite{rfc:priv}, NAT
>> \cite{rfc:nat1,rfc:nat2} and CIDR \cite{rfc:cidr1,rfc:cidr2} has
>> helped...
>>
>> then in the abertaydissertation.bib file I have:
>>
>> @misc{rfc:cidr2,
>> author="F. Baker and E. Lear and R. Droms",
>> title="{Procedures for Renumbering an IPv6 Network without a Flag Day}",
>> series="Request for Comments",
>> number="4192",
>> howpublished="RFC 4192 (Informational)",
>> publisher="IETF",
>> organization="Internet Engineering Task Force",
>> year=2005,
>> month=September,
>> note="\texttt{\url{http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4192.txt} [last accessed
>> 18\textsuperscript{th} of May 2009]}",
>> }
>>
>> @misc{rfc:nat1,
>>   author="P. Srisuresh and M. Holdrege",
>>   title="{IP Network Address Translator (NAT) Terminology and
>> Considerations}",
>>   series="Request for Comments",
>>   number="2663",
>>   howpublished="RFC 2663 (Informational)",
>>   publisher="IETF",
>>   organization="Internet Engineering Task Force",
>>   year=1999,
>>   month=August,
>>   note="\texttt{\url{http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2663.txt} [last
>> accessed 18\textsuperscript{th} of May 2009]}",
>> }
>>
>> Then I just need to compile the file twice and thats it.
>>
>> Kris
>>
>> On 17 May 2010 14:12, Nistur <nistur at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks for the explanation
>>>
>>> I looked into BibTex and was looking to use that, but, quite honestly,
>>> it seems a bit incomprehensible at the moment, especially considering
>>> I have until Wednesday to hand this in. I just haven't got time. As
>>> for putting footnotes in, we've been told that we can't do that. All
>>> referencing in text has to be done in line in Harvard style. Much as I
>>> agree that the footnotes are much neater, I can't do that.
>>>
>>> Ahh well. Keeping plugging on with my work.
>>> I think I've just about had enough with memes... why didn't I do my
>>> dissertation on a subject that would have me reading and writing about
>>> _computing_ subjects, not sociology that hurts my head :(
>>>
>>> Nistur
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Kris Davidson
>>> <davidson.kris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I tend to prefer \href{} myself, its more intelligent than \url{}
>>>> theres an explanation here, under section 4.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.tug.org/applications/hyperref/manual.html
>>>>
>>>> You probably know this already but you'll want to use Bibtex for
>>>> referencing. I quite liked the way footnotes looked in my dissertation
>>>> also, seemed to improve the overall appearance.
>>>>
>>>> Kris
>>>>
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