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diff --git a/biblio/bibtex/utils/tex2bib/README b/biblio/bibtex/utils/tex2bib/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b60ab81e23 --- /dev/null +++ b/biblio/bibtex/utils/tex2bib/README @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ + tex2bib + Input a TeX document containing \bibitems, translate these + to BibTeX format + + Usage: + tex2bib [-k][-i infile] [-o outfile] + -k: regenerate keys + if infile not given, reads from stdin + if outfile not given, prints to stdout + + The entire tex document is scanned for \bibitems, ending when + the string '\end{thebibliography}' is read. + + Assumes that bibitems are formatted as follows: + -- {key}author(s), (date) at the beginning + -- titles of books or names of journals: {\em title} + -- article titles: after date, `` '' quotes optional + -- volume, pages: {\it vol}, nnn-nnn. + -- publisher/address: address:publisher + + All text in the bibitem which cannot be parsed is included + in a note = { } field + + Examples of a book, article, inproceedings: + + \bibitem{Bertin83}Bertin, J. (1983), + {\em Semiology of Graphics} (trans. W. Berg). Madison, WI: + University of Wisconsin Press. + + \bibitem{Bickel75}Bickel, P. J., Hammel, J. W. and O'Connell, J. W. + (1975). + Sex bias in graduate admissions: data from Berkeley. {\em + Science}, {\it 187}, 398-403. + + \bibitem{Farebrother87}Farebrother, R. W. (1987), + ``Mechanical representations of the ${L}_1$ and ${L}_2$ estimation + problems'', In Y. Dodge (ed.) {\em Statistical data analysis + based on the L1 norm and related methods}, Amsterdam: + North-Holland., 455-464. + + + These are output as: + + @Book{ Bertin:83, + author = {J. Bertin}, + year = 1983, + title = {Semiology of Graphics}, + publisher = {University of Wisconsin Press}, + address = {Madison, WI}, + note = {(trans. W. Berg).} + } + @Article{ Bickel:75, + author = {Bickel, P. J. and Hammel, J. W. and O'Connell, J. W.}, + year = 1975, + title = {Sex Bias in Graduate Admissions: Data from Berkeley}, + journal = {Science}, + volume = 187, + pages = {398-403} + } + @InCollection{ Farebrother:87, + author = {R. W. Farebrother}, + year = 1987, + title = {Mechanical Representations of the ${L}_1$ and ${L}_2$ Estimation Problems}, + booktitle = {Statistical Data Analysis Based on the L1 Norm and Related Methods}, + editor = {Y. Dodge}, + publisher = {North-Holland}, + address = {Amsterdam}, + pages = {455-464} + + Text in a bibitem is removed from the bibitem as it is assigned to + bibtex fields. Any text remaining is assigned to a note={ } field + at the end. Since the parsing is heuristic, some manual fixup work + can be expected at the end. + |