2012-09-18 Philipp Gesang <ges...@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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