Re: Citations / Bibliography

Hi David,

On Jul 20, 2011, at 3:12 , David Munger wrote:

> I would like to implement a citation mechanism for bibliographic
> references. I plan to do it by adding:
> 
> 1. a CITE_SOURCE (string) option that could only be set to "bibtex"
> for now, but would allow for later extension;
> 2. a CITE_STYLE (string) option that could take the values "bynumber"
> or "byname"
> 3. a CITE_BIBFILES (list) option to list the .bib files we want parsed;
> 4. a \cite command to be used while documenting the code.
> 
> The \cite command would behave a little bit like like the \ref
> command, but would also list its arguments in a .aux file that would
> later be processed by bibtex itself (with a custom .bst file) to
> generate the list of references.
> 
> I am already doing this for my own purposes with the help of an
> external Python script and custom .bst files. I would just need to
> reimplement this in Doxygen.
> 
> Would that make any sense?

Yes, there are more people wanting this, see also
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503239
for more ideas/wishes.

So if you can help, that would be great!

Regards,
  Dimitri


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