[webgen-users] bibtex and extensions

[Paulo Almeida]

Hi Thomas and folks,

I want to render a list of technical references in my site, from
various sources into a single .page file. These references are now
organized as various .bib files (bibtex is a very popular format to
store references and to use them in LaTeX text processor, as most of
you may know).

I think I will need to build a new webgen extension to deal with
bibtex format and to render it appropriately in html, but I have no
clues on how should I start from.

Is there anything like an extension tutorial, which teaches how to
create the simplest possible extension, how to use it inside a .page
file and so on? I have been looking for this tutorial in the last days
with no success, excuse me if it already exists.

Thx as always. Paulo
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[Damien Pollet]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 05:04, Paulo Almeida <pe...@dri.cefetmg.br> wrote:
> I think I will need to build a new webgen extension to deal with
> bibtex format and to render it appropriately in html, but I have no
> clues on how should I start from.

Well, first of all, good luck on this part :)
I was fed up with the bibtex tools too and I can say the bibtex syntax
is not nice it you want to parse it in a somewhat general way. I have
a parser/generator that works, but it's in Smalltalk so integrating it
with webgen would not be immediate. Anyway, see
http://www.squeaksource.com/Citezen.html if you're interested.

Cheers
--
Damien Pollet
type less, do more [ | ] http://people.untyped.org/damien.pollet

[Angelo Gargantini]

Hi Paulo

take a look at:
https://gforge.inria.fr/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/www/?rev=199&root=oar#dirlist

However, I'm not sure that it is updated and works with the latest
versions of webgen.

To convert from bib to html you would need another tool for example:
http://www.lri.fr/~filliatr/bibtex2html/
(I wrote a similar tool BItoSite
http://cs.unibg.it/gargantini/software/bitosite/ - that I run with
webgen but not automatically).

I would be great to have a plugin for webgen that automatically do this.
Bye

Angelo Gargantini

[Thomas Leitner]

> I want to render a list of technical references in my site, from
> various sources into a single .page file. These references are now
> organized as various .bib files (bibtex is a very popular format to
> store references and to use them in LaTeX text processor, as most of
> you may know).
>
> I think I will need to build a new webgen extension to deal with
> bibtex format and to render it appropriately in html, but I have no
> clues on how should I start from.
>
> Is there anything like an extension tutorial, which teaches how to
> create the simplest possible extension, how to use it inside a .page
> file and so on? I have been looking for this tutorial in the last days
> with no success, excuse me if it already exists.

Have a look at the API documentation
http://webgen.rubyforge.org/documentation/rdoc/index.html There you
will find information about the various extensions as well as example
implementations. For example, if you want to implement a new webgen
tag, have a look at the documentation for the Webgen::Tag::Base module.

-- Thomas