biblatex support? about bibtex-ruby HOT 3 CLOSED

Basically, the parser will parse any key. As regards the citeproc export (if that's what you're asking) there is no special handling of biblatex entries. It would be easy to add those, if you tell us how they should be converted.

Right now, it would look something like this:

 BibTeX.parse(<<-END).to_citeproc
   @book{key,
     title = "The Title",
     pagetotal = 123,
     MvBook = "something"
   }
  END

Gives you:

[{"id"=>"key", "type"=>"book", "title"=>"The Title", "pagetotal"=>"123", "mvbook"=>"something", "issued"=>{"date-parts"=>[[]]}}]

I.e., the entries will be kept but not processed in any way.

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I am not sure what you mean by "as regards the citeproc export". I am referring to the Biblatex specifications (PDF) ftp://www.ctan.org/ctan/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/doc/biblatex.pdf which defines a custom type (just like an "article" or a "Book") - called "MvBook" that stands for Multi-Volume-Book. It also defines, for example, an additional field, just like an "author" field in BibTex - called "pagetotal" - that stands for total number of pages.

So, I guess what I am asking is whether you will recognize those, e.g. convert "pagetotal" to the appropriate field of CSL - which would be "number-of-pages" according to the CSL specs: http://citationstyles.org/downloads/specification.html#standard-variables

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On Feb 8, 2012, at 10:35 PM, drozzy wrote:

I am not sure what you mean by "as regards the citeproc export". I am referring to the Biblatex specifications (PDF) ftp://www.ctan.org/ctan/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/doc/biblatex.pdf which defines a custom type (just like an "article" or a "Book") - called "MvBook" that stands for Multi-Volume-Book. It also defines, for example, an additional field, just like an "author" field in BibTex - called "pagetotal" - that stands for total number of pages.

So, I guess what I am asking is whether you will recognize those - and convert "pagetotal" to the appropriate field of CSL - which would be "number-of-pages" according to the CSL specs: http://citationstyles.org/downloads/specification.html#standard-variables

That's what I was trying to say. Yes, bibtex-ruby will recognize those fields, but No, the CSL export will not convert Biblatex fields specifically. Therefore, 'pagetotal' will remains 'pagetotal' in JSON.

Now, as I said, it's really easy to add conversions. Either you do this yourself or you send me a complete list of mappings and I'll add them for you.

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