[IPOL discuss] article references [Re: publishing the LaTeX source ..]
Pascal Monasse
monasse at imagine.enpc.fr
Thu Mar 28 09:53:50 CET 2013
On Wednesday, March 27, 2013 08:29:31 PM Miguel Colom wrote:
> Quoting Nicolas Limare <nicolas.limare at cmla.ens-cachan.fr>:
> >> If the bibtext file is available, it can be easy converted to XML
> >> using bib2xml [1] from the bibutils package [2]. Then, parsing the
> >> XML is quite easy.
> >
> > But the BibTeX file may contain references not appearing in the
> > paper. So it has to be manually filtered.
>
> Why manually? It should be easy to look for the \cite command by
> matching a regular expression in the LaTeX source and extracting the
> reference code, to check if a given reference is cited or not.
Much easier would be to parse the .bbl file generated from LaTeX compilation.
Only the citations used in the article would be there.
Pascal
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