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[Bas Spitters <address@hidden>]

On Thursday 08 December 2005 16:02, Bas Spitters wrote:
> On Thursday 08 December 2005 14:59, Henri Lesourd wrote:
> > Mingfeng Yang wrote:
> > > But what I want to know is the format of the reference. For example,
> > > some journals need the reference in "author, journal, time, page"
> > > format, and the citation in the text should be in superscript or in
> > > parenthesis or bracket etc. I googled, and  found out that bibtex can
> > > handle this according to a corresponding  bibliography style file. But
> > > the grammar of this file looks very complicated. :(
> >
> > Unfortunately, I'm afraid that in this respect,
> > using TeXmacs changes absolutely nothing at all
> > to the bibTeX crappy style file syntax :-(...
>
> These guys claim they can do better: you can use python and XML.
> Use the script pybformat
> http://arch.pybliographer.org/documentation/script-scripting-existing.html
> and create your own styles:
> http://arch.pybliographer.org/documentation/styles.html
>
> I have not tested this. If this works I guess it should not be too
> difficult add it to texmacs, since texmacs just does latex import.(?)

As I suspected this is indeed not difficult.

Choose Preferences -> bibtex command -> other   and type pybtex

This should be enough to get it to work. However, there are a few small 
problems:
1. pybtex does not use the global variables BIBINPUTS and BSTINPUTS which 
texmacs passes to bibtex.
2. The pybtex separates its fields by a \newblock followed by an empty line. 
Texmacs does not like this and wants a completely empty line.

Here are two workarounds:
1. make a soft-link in the directory $TEXMACS_HOME_PATH/system/bib:
ln -s [place where your bib-file is stored]

2. In the file /usr/share/pybliographer/Pyblio/Output/LaTeX.py
Change the line:
        self.out.write ('\\bibitem[%s]{%s}\n' % (key, entry.key.key))
in:
        self.out.write ('\n\\bibitem[%s]{%s}\n' % (key, entry.key.key))


The real solutions:
1. Is there a python-hacker that can tell me how to do this easily?
2. Texmacs import of bbl-files should accept 
\newblock
as a valid separator between bibitems.


I think it would be an improvement for texmacs to allow pybtex as an optional 
bibtex command, as Henri said the bibTeX style file syntax is crappy.

Bas