On 12/29/07, Stephan Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear Puneet,
>
> I could offer a 188 page document produced in LaTeX and a 286 item
> bibliography for testing if this meets your requirements. But I only
> have LaTeX sources and the final pdf output; would it be required that I
> convert that to rtf with citations in any special format like a LaTeX
> style \cite[1564]{blah} command?
Stephan, thanks for the offer... yes, I can only use RTF with
citations inserted in the TeX style like you mentioned...
\cite{<cite_key>}
The reason I am writing this script is because I don't have either the
smarts or the patience to deal with TeX. My life is interesting enough
with RTF, which, as I mentioned earlier, I accomplish via Scrivener,
with post-finishing in Apple Pages.
> This would probably take me some time
> to accomplish, or rather it probably wouldn't make much sense to invest
> that time if others have already sent you their manuscripts.
No one has as of yet offered. You are the first one, so unless someone
has already got a manuscript in RTF, you would be it. Why don't we
wait for a few days. If I don't hear from anyone by the end of next
week then I will send you an email to ask you to write me out an RTF
of your manuscript. Of course, you will also need to send me
instructions on your preferred citation style. While I don't intend to
compete with Endnote's ~ 3000 options of styles, I would like to build
a few really popular ones, and then, later on, try and develop a
templating system so users could create their own styles (that seems a
bit tough though since these citation styles seem to be so
inconsistent, particularly in formatting subsequent citations of the
same work).
Many thanks for your offer, and have a great new year in the meantime.
>
> Thanks for your good idea (although I am indeed quite happy using LaTeX
> for my manuscripts! ;-))!
> Stephan
>
>
>
> P Kishor wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have been creating a Perl script for scanning through RTF and
> > replacing the cite-keys with the actual citations. I have been testing
> > it on a small manuscript I have, but I would like to do more extensive
> > tests. Would someone be kind enough to send me their manuscript and
> > the associated bib offlist? I solemnly promise to use it ONLY for my
> > testing and for nothing else. The longer the manuscript the better. As
> > expected, the script is really very fast, producing results almost
> > instantaneously, but very long and complicated manuscripts would be a
> > better yardstick.
> >
> > Oh, and also send me the style of citations that you want to deploy. I
> > have currently created one for the Data Science Journal
> > <http://dsj.codataweb.org/instructions.pdf>, but I would be happy to
> > extend it for other styles as well. The way I have written the script
> > makes it easy to add new styles.
> >
> > To give a brief background -- I really love BD but I hate TeX. I
> > haven't found any reasonable solution for me to use for inserting
> > cite-keys and converting them to actual citations. The existing
> > solutions are inadequate for my needs -- the Ruby solution seems to be
> > DOA, the AppleScript solution is too slow and works only with Pages. I
> > use and like Perl, and that allows me to do what I want -- I write my
> > manuscript in Scrivener, using the BD Autocomplete plugin to do the
> > insertions, and then I export the manuscript to RTF, run my Perl
> > script to convert the cite-keys to citations, and then open the
> > resulting RTF in Pages to do the final layout. That works for me. It
> > might work for others.
> >
> > Many thanks in advance.
> >
>
>
--
Puneet Kishor
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