BibTeX

Exporting documents to BibTeX is done in the same way throughout Papis. However, given the nature of TeX, there are some special corner cases to bear in mind when deciding on a workflow.

Note that you can check out the settings related to BibTeX handling in BibTeX options.

Unicode output

The bibtex-unicode setting can be used to allow Unicode characters in exported BibTeX files.

Even though this setting is set to False by default, many TeX setups support the use of Unicode characters in BibTeX files. Enabling Unicode avoids having to write \`{a} instead of just à to display words such as apareixerà. If your setup supports Unicode in BibTeX files, you can safely set bibtex-unicode to True.

Override keys

There might be some issues with the above approach though. If you are exporting the information from your info.yaml to a BibTeX file, characters like & or $ have a special meaning in TeX and need to be escaped. With the default bibtex-unicode = False, these characters are exported as \& and \$, respectively. If it is just a couple of documents that are causing this problem, you can instead override the problematic field like so:

title: Масса & энергия
title_latex: Масса \& энергия
author: Fok, V. A.
type: article
volume: '48'
year: '1952'

In this example, the title that will be added to the BibTeX entry is title_latex, since we have overridden it by appending the _latex suffix to the title key.

Ignore keys

If you do not want to export certain keys to the BibTeX file, like the abstract, you can use the bibtex-ignore-keys setting to omit them in the exporting process.