Hi all,

I have been creating a Perl script for scanning through RTF and
replacing the cite-keys with the actual citations. I have been testing
it on a small manuscript I have, but I would like to do more extensive
tests. Would someone be kind enough to send me their manuscript and
the associated bib offlist? I solemnly promise to use it ONLY for my
testing and for nothing else. The longer the manuscript the better. As
expected, the script is really very fast, producing results almost
instantaneously, but very long and complicated manuscripts would be a
better yardstick.

Oh, and also send me the style of citations that you want to deploy. I
have currently created one for the Data Science Journal
<http://dsj.codataweb.org/instructions.pdf>, but I would be happy to
extend it for other styles as well. The way I have written the script
makes it easy to add new styles.

To give a brief background -- I really love BD but I hate TeX. I
haven't found any reasonable solution for me to use for inserting
cite-keys and converting them to actual citations. The existing
solutions are inadequate for my needs -- the Ruby solution seems to be
DOA, the AppleScript solution is too slow and works only with Pages. I
use and like Perl, and that allows me to do what I want -- I write my
manuscript in Scrivener, using the BD Autocomplete plugin to do the
insertions, and then I export the manuscript to RTF, run my Perl
script to convert the cite-keys to citations, and then open the
resulting RTF in Pages to do the final layout. That works for me. It
might work for others.

Many thanks in advance.

-- 
Puneet Kishor

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