On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 6:52 AM Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan <
daniel....@oeconomist.com> wrote:
> Versions of perl have long been available for Windows.
>
There is also Linux Subsystem for Windows (LSW), which I recently tried.
One still must update the perl environment to get the tex2bib script to
run, as the latest perl under Ubuntu doesn't have Perl4::CoreLibs by
default, which is required in tex2bib.
However, before anyone tries this lengthy install process of perl under
windows, it's important to realize that tex2bib is very limited if your
\bibitem elements don't follow certain conventions (from the perl comments):
# Assumes that bibitems are formatted as follows:
> # -- {key}author(s), (date) at the beginning
> # -- titles of books or names of journals: {\em title}
> # -- article titles: after date, `` '' quotes optional
> # -- volume, pages: {\it vol}, nnn-nnn.
> # -- publisher/address: address:publisher
In the case of the manuscript.tex from Quanta, because the data aren't
formatted that way, it catches only a few of the fields in the conversion.
IMO it's not a useful tool.
Cheers,
C. Fuhrman
