On Dec 29, 2007, at 11:53 AM, P Kishor wrote:
> On 12/29/07, Stephan Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Dear Puneet,
>>
>> I could offer a 188 page document produced in LaTeX and a 286 item
>> bibliography for testing if this meets your requirements. But I only
>> have LaTeX sources and the final pdf output; would it be required
>> that I
>> convert that to rtf with citations in any special format like a LaTeX
>> style \cite[1564]{blah} command?
>
> Stephan, thanks for the offer... yes, I can only use RTF with
> citations inserted in the TeX style like you mentioned...
> \cite{<cite_key>}
>
> The reason I am writing this script is because I don't have either the
> smarts or the patience to deal with TeX. My life is interesting enough
> with RTF, which, as I mentioned earlier, I accomplish via Scrivener,
> with post-finishing in Apple Pages.
>
>> This would probably take me some time
>> to accomplish, or rather it probably wouldn't make much sense to
>> invest
>> that time if others have already sent you their manuscripts.
>
> No one has as of yet offered. You are the first one, so unless someone
> has already got a manuscript in RTF, you would be it. Why don't we
> wait for a few days. If I don't hear from anyone by the end of next
> week then I will send you an email to ask you to write me out an RTF
> of your manuscript.
> Of course, you will also need to send me
> instructions on your preferred citation style. While I don't intend to
> compete with Endnote's ~ 3000 options of styles, I would like to build
> a few really popular ones, and then, later on, try and develop a
> templating system so users could create their own styles (that seems a
> bit tough though since these citation styles seem to be so
> inconsistent, particularly in formatting subsequent citations of the
> same work).
May I encourage you to explore the citeproc and csl citation styling
system? This is the one being used by Zotero and looks to be the
system most likely to see wide-spread use in OpenOffice in the near
future. It should be a question of getting the references and then
formatting them (both in-text and for the reference list) using the
csl styles.
http://xbiblio.sourceforge.net/
http://xbiblio.sourceforge.net/csl/
The xbiblio mailing list would be able to give some assistance on
using these styles.
You might also find how Zotero integrates with Word and OpenOffice of
use in thinking about how to interact with RTF.
http://www.zotero.org/
Of course you might also be able to leverage bibtex styles or BibTex's
templating system (via Applescript?), rather than building another
templating system.
--J
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