········· > 2012-09-18 Philipp Gesang : > > > [0] http://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg62855.html > > Thanks for the link. Since I usually don't deal much with > different bibliography styles I tend to skip those threads. > > > > And BibTeX is used since it understands the semantics of > > > bib files, although a pure ConTeXt/Lua solution would be possible. > > > Without BibTeX this functionality would be missing since no one is > > > willing to implement a parser for .bib databases. > > > > Context happens to have such a parser, written in Lua. Probably > > the best one around: > > > > ······································································· > > \starttext > > \startluacode > > local db = bibtex.new() > > bibtex.load(db, "filename.bib") > > table.print(db) > > \stopluacode > > \stoptext > > Interesting, I didn't know that. But the values are only parsed, not > interpreted. That means the only thing left for BibTeX is to do is > to interpret the ugly “author” field? From my bibliography (this assumes authors are separated by “ and ”; *warning*: ashamingly ugly code ahead): ······································································· -- adapted from Roberto -- www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg.html function citator.split (s, sep) if type(sep) == "string" then sep = P(sep) end local elem = C((1 - sep)^0) local p = Ct(elem * (sep * elem)^0) return lpegmatch(p, s) end local split = citator.split -- Return a list of authors' names from a string separated by "and". local _p_spaces = S" \n\t\v"^1 local _p_and = _p_spaces * P"and" * _p_spaces function citator.get_author_list (rawaut) if not stringfind(rawaut, "and") then return { rawaut } end return split(rawaut, _p_and) end local get_author_list = citator.get_author_list do local wl = P{ [1] = "words", left = P"{", right = P"}", space = P" ", tabs = S"\v\t", eol = P"\n", whitespace = V"space" + V"tabs" + V"eol", inbrace = V"left" * (1 - V"right")^1 * V"right", other = (1 - V"inbrace" - V"whitespace")^1, elm = V"inbrace" + V"other", words = Ct((V"whitespace"^0 * C(V"elm"))^0) } -- Takes a string and splits it into words, returning a list of words. function citator.get_word_list(s) return lpegmatch(wl, s) end end local get_word_list = citator.get_word_list -- from http://osdir.com/ml/lua@bazar2.conectiva.com.br/2009-12/msg00910.html do local space = S" \t\v\n" local nospace = 1 - space local ptrim = space^0 * C((space^0 * nospace^1)^0) function citator.strip (s) return lpegmatch(ptrim, s) end end -- Return the formatted author field for one author string. function citator.reverse_one_author (rawaut, form) local listaut = get_word_list(rawaut) local formaut, tmpaut = "", {} if (#listaut > 1) then for i,j in next, listaut do listaut[i] = citator.strip(j) end lastname = listaut[#listaut] .. "," tableremove(listaut, #listaut) tmpaut[#tmpaut+1] = lastname for i,j in next, listaut do tmpaut[#tmpaut+1] = j end for i,j in next, tmpaut do formaut = formaut .. " " .. j end else formaut = listaut[1] end return formaut end local reverse_one_author = citator.reverse_one_author -- Take a string of authors' names rawaut and return a list that is built -- according to the global citator.cite_inv_author. -- ‘resultformat’: if it has the value ‘string’ then the function will -- return a string instead of a table. function citator.format_author_list (rawaut, resultformat) warn("author list", rawaut) local max = citator.compress_authors -- , default=3 local authorlist = get_author_list(rawaut) local cnt = 1 local tmplist = {} local citestyle = citator.styles[citator.cite_style] or fancy2 local etal = citestyle.cite_etal_string repeat if cnt == 1 then if citator.cite_author_form == "allinv" or citator.cite_author_form == "firstinv" then tmplist[#tmplist+1] = reverse_one_author(authorlist[cnt]) warn("num: "..cnt, authorlist[cnt]) else -- don’t reverse anything tmplist[#tmplist+1] = authorlist[cnt] end elseif cnt > max then tmplist[#tmplist+1] = etal break else warn("num: "..cnt, authorlist[cnt]) if citator.cite_author_form == "allinv" then tmplist[#tmplist+1] = reverse_one_author(authorlist[cnt]) elseif citator.cite_author_form == "firstinv" then tmplist[#tmplist+1] = citestyle.cite_author_separator tmplist[#tmplist+1] = authorlist[cnt] else tmplist[#tmplist+1] = citestyle.cite_author_separator tmplist[#tmplist+1] = authorlist[cnt] end end cnt = cnt + 1 until authorlist[cnt] == nil warn(#tmplist, tmplist[1]) if resultformat == "string" then return tableconcat(tmplist) end return tmplist end local format_author_list = citator.format_author_list ······································································· As you can see, all I have to offer is spaghetti :P And the formatting rules for names (the fields author, bookauthor, translator, editor, bookeditor, commentator, etc. pp.) are by no means everything that bibtex handles. The hard part is the formatting of entries according to cite style (apa etc.) and method (short, number, full). Then strings (ibidem, et. al) need to respect i18n. Sorting of the bib has to take place on a certain set of fields in a certain order depending on whether the entry has an author field or only an editor or both ... and then there is the problem with names in general: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ I don’t want to be spreading pessimism, but these problems are easily understimated. 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