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From: Marco Patzer <homerow@lavabit.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Bibliography, unicode strings, @ELECTRONIC, sorting and bibtex
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:19:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120918161945.5eeb0139@homerow> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120918132854.GB9686@phlegethon>

2012-09-18 Philipp Gesang <gesang@stud.uni-heidelberg.de>:

> [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?


Marco

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-18 14:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-18 10:28 Marco Patzer
2012-09-18 11:41 ` Schmitz Thomas A.
2012-09-18 12:25   ` Marco Patzer
2012-09-18 13:28     ` Philipp Gesang
2012-09-18 14:19       ` Marco Patzer [this message]
2012-09-18 15:34         ` Philipp Gesang
2012-09-18 13:48     ` Schmitz Thomas A.
2012-09-18 14:11       ` Marco Patzer
2012-09-18 15:15   ` Alan BRASLAU

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