Re: latex bibliographies with multiple databases

David Nebauer writes:
 > There's something else.  You may recall some time ago all the trouble 
 > taken to ensure entities such as — and & are preserved in 
 > database reference entries and subsequently then preserved throughout 
 > DocBook processing.  Many of my references include entities in document 
 > titles.  Well, those entities are now appearing in the bibtex entries 
 > created by runbib.  As you noted, the raw ampersands choke LaTeX.  Is 
 > there any way of converting those xml-safe entities to LaTeX equivalents 
 > as runbib exports them?  In the case of '—' that would be '---'.
 > 

I thought about this a bit more. I'm afraid this is going to get far
more complex than I thought in the first place. We need to:

- replace XML entities that stem from risx documents or which were
  deliberately used in RIS data. E.g. '—' -> '---'

- backslash-escape LaTeX command characters unless, and that's the
  catch, they are used as LaTeX commands. A LaTeX-only user may
  rightfully expect e.g. author names like 'H\"{a}\{ss}ler' (as
  imported from a bibtex file) to be processed correctly, or
  e.g. '{\bf emphasized}' words in titles. refdbd would have to
  acquire a thorough knowledge of LaTeX commands to cope with this.

- translate foreign letters and letters with diacritics to their TeX
  equivalents from, and that's the catch here, any supported character
  encoding. The same TeX representation of such a letter may be
  encoded as a variety of one to three-byte sequences in different
  uni- or multibyte character sets.

Is anyone aware of a library or a tool that implements these
transformations? I'm only aware of tex2mail which does the reverse.

regards,
Markus

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Markus Hoenicka
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