org-ref - Exporting nicely formatted cross-references to non-LaTeX from

org-ref was originally designed for writing scientific papers that would be converted to a PDF via LaTeX, where LaTeX would do all the cross-reference processing. That is not helpful though if you want to export to HTML or ODT, or any other non-LaTeX format! This video introduces org-ref-refproc, which provides similar functionality as cleveref in LateX to non-LaTeX exports. For example, you can get clever prefixes that automatically add Figure/Table etc in HTML, with reasonable numbering, etc.
org-ref: github.com/jki...

[@newdlf2567]

Thank you Dr. Kitchin for this video. Eventhough it didn't go as you planned, but it shows that even experts might have technical difficulties.

[@JohnKitchin]

So true!

[@RobHickswm]

Yes the :results silent was tripping me up. Have you tried libreoffice rather than openoffice? libre is more actively developed and probably less crash prone. Also, I am having success with exporting latex equations into native odt equations (with refs) to odt using 1) tex:t in #+OPTIONS, 2) installing latexmlmath, and 3) using this in my init.el: ;; embed word equations natively in exported odf (setq org-latex-to-mathml-convert-command "latexmlmath \"%i\" --presentationmathml=%o") You have to use \[ and \] rather than $, which is a bummer, also Word tends to open the odt and display the equations better than open office.

[@JohnKitchin]

I switched to libre office yesterday, and it works better indeed! I don't know why a return of nil messes up the emacs-lisp blocks, one day i will fix that!

[@JohnKitchin]

Thanks for the tip on the options. I can get some better results with those. These are documented at orgmode.org/manual/LaTeX-math-snippets.html.

[@boonejan]

Thanks for the great package and videos! I have the following question: will this referencing also work for latex environments like theorem, proposition, lemma etc. E.g. using special blocks like #+begin_theorem ... #+end_theorem Would I then label these blocks with "#+name:"?

[@JohnKitchin]

in theory all those things could be made to work. They are not supported out of the box at the moment though, I would have to add them. Could you add an issue at github.com/jkitchin/org-ref/issues for this, and include some examples of what those look like in an org-file?

[@boonejan]

@@JohnKitchin thanks for considering this; I have added an issue.

[@JohnKitchin]

This one was not that good. I will probably redo it tomorrow morning with natmove. Hopefully you get the idea!

[@emmanuelgoldstein9710]

Excellent presentation, professor Kitchin. I am getting the error: "script/OpenDocument export failed: Symbol’s function definition is void: org-ref-refproc" when I try that code for exporting to open document. I have installed org-ref anew. it should be working...

[@JohnKitchin]

Probably you need to add (require 'org-ref-refproc), like here github.com/jkitchin/org-ref/blob/master/examples/refproc.org#html

[@emmanuelgoldstein9710]

​@@JohnKitchin Thanks, that fixed the export to ODT.But when I use the code to export to docx, i get "wrong type argument: consp, nil"

[@JohnKitchin]

@@emmanuelgoldstein9710 you should post an issue with all the details at github.com/jkitchin/org-ref/issues.

[@artistaurbana9712]

My variable org-export-before-parsing-hook is org-attach-expand-links. Should I change it to org-ref-refproc?

[@artistaurbana9712]

Or do I understand that these functions you are trying are the ones in the exporter (org-ref export)?

[@JohnKitchin]

@@artistaurbana9712 It depends on what you are trying to do. you only need org-ref-refproc if you are using ref links and exporting to something other than latex.

[@artistaurbana9712]

@@JohnKitchin What I mean is that those lines of code achieve the same as exporting to org-ref export.

[@artistaurbana9712]

I mean this: (require 'org-ref-refproc) ;; (let ((org-export-before-parsing-hook '(org-ref-refproc))) (org-open-file (org-html-export-to-html))) achieves the same as exporting to org-ref export HTML in the exporter menu.

[@JohnKitchin]

@@artistaurbana9712 I don't think that is true. I think the org-ref exporters only handle citations, you have to do the refs separately. I think.