Processor for org-mode - this is Org with TeX mixed in. Actually it is more than that. I have come to realise that we need front-ends for processing markdown, Org and all that, and ‘knowledgeable’ back-ends that can target either TeX or HTML. And the front-end can act based on knowledge of the target. Either that or create a very smart Tex -> HTML converter, something no one has achieved in a satisfactory way (that I am aware).

The reason for this processor is that I often write text in Emacs Org mode (before it was Markdown or WikiTeXer with vim) and usually want output as LaTeX or HTML. These, in turn, can be converted to PDF or Word documents for collaborators.

I know Org can also output HTML and TeX, but somehow it is never what I want. I need something hackable. DocBook is another options - but there is little love lost between XML and me. I prefer transformers that are source code and skip the intermediate presentation(s).

The general idea of OrgTeXer is to create convenience methods for transforming Org-style markdown to TeX or HTML. Anything that is not recognised is basically passed through. That means you can use TeX in TeX targeted documents and you can use HTML in HTML targeted documents. I used this methodology to write almost all my papers and my PhD thesis.

OrgTeXer also requires support for bibtex citations. Maybe I’ll use Org-ref for that. The good news is that the software stack around Org-mode is getting more and more sophisticated and increasingly used. One thing that bothers me, however, is that they are not command line tools.

There exists also the older WikiTeXer project which did the same for Wikimedia style input files mixed with Tex. The architecture for both projects is quite different. OrgTeXer will be a ‘pipe’ based system with small transformers doing small jobs. The current version is written in Ruby, but I may change it to something LISPier soon.

OrgTeXer is published under a liberal BSD-style license.

Pjotr Prins.

The tool bibtex-org reads a number of textual (org, HTML, …) files and bibtex files. Whenever it finds a \cite{tag} it will look up the bibtex reference. When done it will inject the list of references using a template. It will also replace all \cite{tag} locations with the reference style used. Note that cite can contain multiple tags separated by a comma such as supported by LaTeX, e.g. \cite{tag1,tag2}.