It takes plain text references and uses Regexes to turn them into BibTeX.
http://www.molspaces.com/d_cb2bib-overview.php It has some built in regexes (eg JSTOR and PubMeb), but it is more useful once you get into writing your own regexes. The interface is very, shall we say, linux quirky, but there is a Mac binary and it does work. One thing I like is that you just use a single capture for the whole authors or editors string and it is quite smart about normalizing them for BibTeX. The regex format it is using I found wasn't well documented (ok, I'm sure if I looked in the source I could find out!), but I found it to basically be PCRE with the slightly annoying quirk that it doesn't work with the 'non-greedy' specifier (ie (.*) works (doing a greedy match) while (.*?) doesn't work (AFAIK it should do a non-greedy match). It does some pre-processing for newlines across platforms (that is documented on the website). I'm using it to turn text bibliographies in something like Harvard citation format (from Journalism Studies) into BibTeX references. --J ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
