Re: [EP-underground] The mudtrack ahead - bibtex import/export

Regarding importing and exporting BibTex and other formats, you may be
probably already aware, but there is this perl library, that could be
integrated quite easily with eprints, I believe:

http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~jacobsd/bib/bp/

The only thing needed is some "bridge" between eprints and one of the
formats supported by bp.

Silvio


 On Fri, 5 Jul 2002,
Jonathan Flynn wrote:

> Dear Chris et al
>
> You asked:
> > So what next for eprints?
>
> >  * BibTex (or other format) export. This could be handy if you use bibtex as
> >       part of latex. Most people probably won't care, but those that do will
> >       really care.
> >
> >  * BibTex (or other metadata format) importer. This would be a big "textarea"
> >       box which you cut'n'paste a bibtex record into and it does it's best to
> >       start filling out the metadata for a record based on that.
>
> I haven't used eprints yet, but intend to. I would definitely appreciate
> BibTeX import/export --- and others, latex, mathml,...
>
> A related issue is dealing with mathematical notation in eprint fields.
> How do you deal with this now? My ideal would be a system where users
> could enter info using tex, latex, pasted-in snippets of mathml, etc, etc,
> and could ask for output in these formats too.
>
> Jonathan Flynn
>
>

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