Zotero + Better BibTeX + VSCode + Pandoc workflow.md

1. add yaml metadata for pandoc

# metadata for pandoc
title: Computer Systems Architecture individual assignment
subtitle: Comparisn Between Raspberry Pi OS and Fedora Linux
author:
  - 'hfsoahdaos'

# custom LaTeX
header-includes: 

# docx settings
fontfamily: T
pointsize: 12p

# LaTeX settings
documentclass: article
colorlinks: true
toc: true

2. cite using Better BibTeX

manually cite

• narrative citation - @citation
  • in apa it'll be converted into citation (n.d.)
• parenthetical citation - [@citation]
  • in apa it'll be converted into (citation, n.d.)1
  • what i usually want

vscode extensions to automatically pick citations from Better BibTeX

• Citation Picker for Zotero - Visual Studio Marketplace
• Zotero LaTeX - Visual Studio Marketplace4

3. export using pandoc

using --citeproc

• download desired csl
• enable auto export in BetterBibTeX settings
• export your citations in zotero
  • choose BetterBibTeX as format
• run command pandoc -s --bibliography=My\ Library.bib --citeproc --biblatex --csl apa.csl ~/nerd-stuff/notes/notes/2023-04-19-20:05:09.md -o paper.docx
  • the original article did not mention --citeproc2

using the Better BibTeX lua filter3

• doesn't work
• idk how to make it work so i gave up

4. manually edit document

TODO learn to do these through pandoc to stop manually editing like a peasant

• add cover page
• page break
  • i have no idea how to do these two
• styles
  • the correct way to do this is by creating a templeate (or reference document if exporting to .docx)

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ironically i'm not using zotero for the reference here