From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: m-bib, xml, etc.
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 11:00:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020807110032.5ee187af.taco@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <29426950.1028655475296.JavaMail.darcusb@muohio.edu>
On Tue, 6 Aug 2002 13:37:55 -0400 (EDT), Bruce wrote:
> In general, any new xml-based system should not inherit the limitations
> of previous approaches. What I am about to say may indicate some
> ignorance of BibTeX, with which I am not intimately familiar, so take
> it for it's worth (and correct me if I'm wrong!):
True but also applicable to RIS. Desperately missing from both
bibtex and endnote/reference manager file format are character sets.
> Finally, my biggest issue is this:
>
> Exactly how do I write documents such that I can easily produce not
> just beautiful pdf output via pdftex, but also some format that word
> processors (Word) and dtp apps can import? It doesn't seem tagged pdf
> is coming anytime soon. In theory, a ConTeXt to html script would
> work, but I'm not aware of this coming soon either. Finally, given
> support for xml in ConTeXt and your interest in moving m-bib in this
> direction, I suppose I could just write in xml.
I don't believe I can answer the general question. For bibligraphic
data the solution is rather straightforward: I'll just write some perl
code to go from XML to RIS/bibtex & vv.
> OK, but adding RIS (or refer) import to m-bib would really help me out,
> as BibTeX export from an app like Endnote is less-than-ideal!
We ware working on this issue off the list. If someone wants to be in on
the discussion, please e-mail me.
greetings, Taco
--
groeten,
Taco
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2002-08-06 17:37 Bruce D'Arcus
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