Well, the demands of installing LSW should not be counted against
installing text2bib because, again, perl was long ago ported to Windows.
As to that formatting issue, I was tempted to note that vi or emacs
could get the elements into the format needed by tex2bib. But then I
realized that someone who could accomplish that much wouldn't need
tex2bib in the first place. :-/
So, yeah, scr_w it.
On 08/01/2018 12:22 PM, Cris Fuhrman wrote:
On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 6:52 AM Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Versions of perl have long been available for Windows.
There is also Linux Subsystem for Windows (LSW), which I recently
tried. One still must update the perl environment to get the tex2bib
script to run, as the latest perl under Ubuntu doesn't have
Perl4::CoreLibs by default, which is required in tex2bib.
However, before anyone tries this lengthy install process of perl
under windows, it's important to realize that tex2bib is very limited
if your \bibitem elements don't follow certain conventions (from the
perl comments):
# 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
In the case of the manuscript.tex from Quanta, because the data aren't
formatted that way, it catches only a few of the fields in the
conversion. IMO it's not a useful tool.
Cheers,
C. Fuhrman
