Thanks, Jeremy. Yes, works perfectly! You've made my day!! I'll get to work on macros, that I can handle. A deserializer is way beyond my skills (and only vaguely within my comprehension.
This will help me and others who need bibliographic management within TiddlyWiki, and allow us to move TW forward as a serious academic tool, including being able to write (and publish) journal articles, books, etc. 40 minutes! It took me 3 days to figure out that I should import a .bib file directly :). Again, thanks, and I'll get on with testing the pre-release version ... //steve. On Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at 1:09:51 PM UTC-4, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > Hi Steve > > > Ideally, TW should read the .bib file directly, of course. But, one step > at a time... > > OK, I’ve bowed to the inevitable and spent 40 minutes whipping up a basic > BibTeX importer plugin, based on a JavaScript BibTeX parser that I found. > > You can try it out at: > > http://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease#%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Ftiddlywiki%2Fbibtex > <http://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease#$:/plugins/tiddlywiki/bibtex> > > I found that your .bib file at > https://stevesunypoly.updog.co/bibtex/first-jabref-bibtex-db.bib gives an > error unless I remove the final line: > > @Comment{jabref-meta: databaseType:bibtex;} > > I’ve only done the most basic field conversion: > > * title comes from citationKey > * bibtex-entry-type comes from entryType > * all entryTags are assigned to fields with the prefix “bibtex-“ > > Let me know how you get on, > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > > On 18 Oct 2016, at 17:13, Steven Schneider <st...@sunyit.edu <javascript:>> > wrote: > > As part of my bibliography project (see previous thread, > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywiki/ZKiviPin72c) it occurs > to me that I could import a structured file (a bib file) as a tiddler, and > write macros that search for / extract records from that tiddler. Is > something like that even possible? > > Here, for example, is what a bib file with two entries might look like > @InProceedings{Dalgaard2001, > author = {Dalgaard, Rune}, > title = {Hypertext and the Scholarly Archive: Intertexts, Paratexts > and Metatexts at Work}, > url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/504216.504262}, > urldate = {2016-10-17}, > } > > @Article{Rowan2016, > author = {Rowan, Kyle Edward}, > title = {Not Quite a Sunset: a hypertext opera}, > date = {2016}, > shorttitle = {Not Quite a Sunset}, > url = {http://escholarship.org/uc/item/9830g5pn.pdf}, > urldate = {2016-10-17}, > } > > > How could I write macros that would allow me to transclude fields/values > from this tiddler, for example: > > {{Rowan2016!!url}} to return http://escholarship.org/uc/item/9830g5pn.pdf > > {{Rowan2016!!type}} to return @Article (this would be necessary to > generate custom templates based on type) > > etc. > > > I am still interested in parsing this file into separate tiddlers (one for > each @), but the approach outlined above might be easier for me to handle. > > Thanks, > > //steve. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tiddlywiki+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to tiddl...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/830c0d47-36df-4535-b137-54e93a845c5a%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/830c0d47-36df-4535-b137-54e93a845c5a%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/2c3ee137-6b37-4e5d-80e4-1932002ef942%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
