Re: latex bibliographies with multiple databases

Gidday

As a novice latex user it seems okay; I can't envisage any difficulties.

Probably jumping the gun a bit here, but I'd like to see the following 
kind of latex markup reproduced (not stripped entirely):

BIBTEX:
   TITLE = {Why {AM} and {EURISKO} appear to work},

Current RIS:
TI  - Why {AM} and {EURISKO} appear to work

Current RISX:
       <title type="full">Why {AM} and {EURISKO} appear to work</title>

The reason is that bibtex will capitalise your bibliography according to 
the current bibliography style (generally with a single leading 
capital), and you need to inform bibtex that certain passages are to be 
formatted verbatim.

Other than that, I can't envisage the need for keeping latex markup - 
I've been manually stripping everything else. I enter most of my 
references using risx (I use bibtex and RIS where provided but usually 
edit them manually before submitting them to RefDB), and I don't appear 
to have any entites coming back (probably because I don't know how to 
use entities).
Except I think entities are used in some of the URLs - I don't know if 
they're necessary or not, they're just there.

Peace
Damien

David Nebauer wrote:
> Hi Markus,
> 
> 
>>I take from this discussion:
>>
>>1) Use a bib2ris post-processing script (or rewrite bib2ris to contain such
>>code) which strips markup like boldface, superscript etc. and translates
>>foreign characters entered as LaTeX constructs to their Unicode equivalents.
>>
>>2) Modify the code to prevent XML entities to show up in LaTeX output.
>>
>>3) Add code to escape the LaTeX command characters in the LaTeX output.
>>
>>The second point is a bit tricky. References imported from RIS usually do not
>>contain entities, but references imported from risx are likely to do. Either I
>>convert these entities during import, or I remove them during LaTeX export. The
>>former seems cleaner to me, and I think this is what you had in mind.
> 
> 
> Yes, in my view the storage format is Unicode without markup:
> 
> 
> BibTeX -------               ---------> DocBook
>              |               |
>              |               |
> RIS ---------+--> STORAGE ----
>              |   (Unicode)   |
>              |               |
> RISX ---------               ---------> LaTeX
> 
> 
> 
> Whatever the input format, all references end up in the same storage 
> format (Unicode sans markup).  This would require stripping out XML 
> entities and LaTeX markup.  With luck you can use existing tools to do 
> this.  The stored references can then be output in either DocBook- or 
> LaTeX-compatible format.  This seems to be to be an elegant way of 
> dealing with the mishmash of input and output formats.
> 
> Regards,
> David.
> 
> 
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