.bib help

[Mike Marchywka]

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>From: texhax <texhax-bounces+marchywka=hotmail.com at tug.org> on behalf of Alan E. Davis <lngndvs at gmail.com>
>Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2019 2:25 PM
>To: Uwe Ziegenhagen
>Cc: TeX Questions
>Subject: Re: .bib help
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>This is possibly off topic, at least in part.
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>I took a shortcut path to print out bibliographies from *.bib files, involving, on GNU/Linux, the installation of the cb2Bib package.  In the "tools" directory of the installation is a script, "bib2pdf" that makes short work of the job of printing a structured bibliography.  I went to some additional extent, with the help of the developer of this package, to edit the source code to enable editing of the Annotate field from cb2Bib.  I think this is not how this program is meant to be run, but it is part and parcel of my workflow now, for generating on the fly bibliography printouts.  Cb2Bib is a remarkable tool for getting citations into the bibliography, semi-intelligently.  It does more than I have gotten my head around.  It runs only on GNU/Linux, and possibly OS/X, any system with bash and LaTeX of some kind installed.  The script is pretty much hard-coded to print certain fields, but can be tweaked to include  the Annotation field.  This involved also a couple of minor edits to a *bst file.  It has all been worth it, especially with the ability to use cb2Bib.  Again, the script can be run on a *.bib file, on its own.
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>I know.  I know.  I took the shortcut path, and missed out on all the fun of learning to do it with LaTeX or TeX, bibTeX, or bibLaTeX, etc.  But it has indeed been much more workable, for me, than any of the skeleton files I have tried to use.   For me.  YMMV.

I'm not entirely sure what this does but I was trying to make a notebook that would print the citation with
"bibentry" along with some text. Usually the bibentry is a citation just downloaded using another script
which takes the url on the clipboard and attempts to get the bibtex (usually based on publisher info or extracting
doi and calling crossref). This works pretty well but alternatives may be of interest. Also curious if you can just
make a bst file to convert a bib file to xml or json although the normal flow would then leave you having to extract
that from the pdf file :) bib files could end up with a lot of format variations that you may want to clean up by converting
to a more general format, do the "clean up " and then convert back to bib files. I've had some issues with full text
url's and my automated script inserts comment on original source url and ultimately where it got the alleged bibtex.
I can write simple scripts to insert those into the bibtex entry but then I may want to go verify or do other things
that require accurate parsing.



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>I'd be glad to communicate with anyone who wants to know more.
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>Alan Davis
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>On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 11:35 PM Uwe Ziegenhagen <ziegenhagen at gmail.com<mailto:ziegenhagen at gmail.com>> wrote:
>Hi Christopher,
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>have a look at the following file: https://github.com/dante-ev/dtk-bibliography/blob/master/dtk-bibliography.tex
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>It prints out the complete bibliography for the German LaTeX User Group journal, the "Texnische Komödie"
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>The Bib-file is there as well: https://github.com/dante-ev/dtk-bibliography/blob/master/dtk-bibliography.bib as well as the final result:
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>https://github.com/dante-ev/dtk-bibliography/blob/master/dtk-bibliography.pdf
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>Uwe
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>Am Sa., 30. März 2019 um 03:52 Uhr schrieb Christopher W. Ryan <cryan at binghamton.edu<mailto:cryan at binghamton.edu>>:
>This is cool. Had not heard of it before. Is this for bibtex, or
>biblatex, or both? I usually use biblatex.  Would you be willing to
>share a MWE for such a task?
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>Thanks.
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>--Chris Ryan
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>Paulo Ney de Souza wrote:
>> Just build a document with a single command:
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>> \nocite{*}
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>> Paulo Ney
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>> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 10:08 PM steve kolars <bkfuth at gmail.com<mailto:bkfuth at gmail.com>
>> <mailto:bkfuth at gmail.com<mailto:bkfuth at gmail.com>>> wrote:
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>>     I have searched and searched for how to do a specific thing with a
>>     .bib file and have not been able to find a resource on exactly what
>>     I want to do. I understand how to create the file, and I understand
>>     how to cite and have latex create a PDF for me. Building regular
>>     documents is not a problem.
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>>     What I want to do is to use a rather large .bib file that I have. I
>>     am trying to print out a PDF that is only a bibliography. What I
>>     want to do is build the bibliography with everything from my .bib
>>     file. I could build a document by citing every entry in the .bib
>>     file--but there has to be a better way.
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>>     Thank you in advance for your assistance,
>>     Stephen Kolars
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