Is Better BibTeX or BibLaTeX export Related references?

[Lycurgue]

Hi,

Is Better BibTeX or BibLaTeX export Related references?
I'm using Better BibTeX and I searched the Zotero Related references within the exported .bib file but to no avail.

Thanks,

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[retorquere]

It doesn't currently. How would you propose the relations being exported?

[Lycurgue]

Hi retorquere,

Thanks for the reply.
Sorry, but I'm not sure what to propose to export Zotero Related refences in bibtex format. I'm essentialy an end-user, so I'm not familiar with the details of both Zotero and bibtex formats.

From the Jabref web site (https://help.jabref.org/en/EntryLinks) it seems that there is a field called 'related' for the bibtext format. We can read :

comma separated list of BibTeX keys which are in some kind related to this entry. The type of all relations can be specified by a single relatedtype (see plk/biblatex#475 (comment)). Note: Biblatex prints this information if related is active at the biblatex package.

Maybe it can be a solution,
Thanks

[retorquere]

That seems reasonable, but what do you want to use it for?

[Lycurgue]

I'd like to do the same thing as in Zotero: to connect different items, e.g. book chapters.
From this Zotero page (https://www.zotero.org/support/related), we find a list of possibles usages.
Thanks

[retorquere]

Right, but for what purpose would this be used? It wouldn't show up in a bibliography I think, are there other tools that read this? This feature has ramifications for caching so I'm looking at whether it's worth the effort.

[retorquere]

Also, since Zotero has no type information for the relations, how would you propose I get relationtype into the reference? One doesn't seem very helpful without the other.

[Lycurgue]

As I said, I'm essentially an end-user, so I'm not familiar with the details of both Zotero and bibtex formats. Maybe it is not worth the effort. Thanks anyway.

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[retorquere]

I'm always happy to do these things, but development is driven mostly by user need -- if you have a BibTeX need, I can see how best to go about implementing it. But if the need isn't really there, it's hard to assess what a good result would be.

3173 will add a related field with the keys of the related items in Zotero; you can add the relationtype by adding bibtex[relationtype=multivolume] to the extra field, but given that the relations are not typed in Zotero, this seems pretty fragile. I'm not sure I'm going to bring this into a formal release until I know how it's going to be used.

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