X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/f9d9162eddc5294f0367cafe67f66472ecb2de2d..af85f62d6fd7c3b437fa527bff3392616d3513dc:/doc/todo/BibTeX.mdwn diff --git a/doc/todo/BibTeX.mdwn b/doc/todo/BibTeX.mdwn index da1d0d0f4..1ac9e99b8 100644 --- a/doc/todo/BibTeX.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/BibTeX.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,72 @@ I would *love* to see a plugin that lets you create one or more BibTeX-formatted bibliography pages and add citations to other pages. The plugin could also render the bibliographies themselves using a chosen BibTeX style and an HTML formatter for LaTeX (such as HeVeA). ---[[JoshTriplett]] \ No newline at end of file +--[[JoshTriplett]] + +I work on a plugin to htmlize '.bib' files. + +A sample result is shown on my webpage : . + +It features the htmlization of the bibtex with 4 types of entry supported (InProceedings, Article, MastersThesis and PhdThesis). I will add the book entry support soon. It creates for each '.bib' file an html version, and for each entry a specific page with abstract as well as an individual bib file. It lack some features like the possibility to have a pdf or ps version of the article attached. + +This plugin uses two templates to render the html version of each file. + +I have a problem to create a new page that render like any other page in the wiki. I have used the Ikiwiki's internal **genpage($$)** routine but I suppose that there is another way to do this. My method lack the backlink support for the individual entry files as well as the modification date of these file. + +Is it possible to create several wiki page from only one source file? + +The source of this plugin could be found on this page : . + +Feel free to propose any modifications to enhance this plugin. + +--[[AlexandreDupas]] + +I have not found any other approach to build several wiki page with only one source file. Does someone have an idea? + +I also try to build a wiki-wide preprocessing of the source file to find reference to my bib entry (citation) but apparently there is no wiki-wide preprocessing hook allowing to collect data from each page before building the site. Do I miss something? + +--[[AlexandreDupas]] + +> The scan hook is run on new page content before building --[[Joey]] + +What notation did you have in mind for citations? A preprocessor +directive? Something LaTeX-inspired might be + + \[[!cite key="foo"]] + +which would output "(Foo, 2008)". With the appropriate options, this +could allow for several variations like "Foo (2008)" and "(Foo, 2008, +p. 28)". A `nocite` option could cause the reference to be printed in +the bibliography but produce no output. + +What about the references section? There are several ways to +go about it, for example: + +1. It could be included at the bottom of the page automatically for + pages with references, with a configurable title and heading level + (e.g., `

References

`) followed by a list of references. + +2. Use another preprocessor directive like + + ## References ## + + \[[!bibliography ]] + + or + + \[[!bibliography title="References" headerlevel="2"]] + + with configurable default values. Would it be tedious to do this on + every page? + +3. Use HTML::Template and allow users to add a bibliography section to + `page.tmpl` to include the bibliography if references are present and + loop over the references to emit a list. The downside here is having + to ask people to modify their templates (unless the plugin is + eventually included in the distribution). + +Any thoughts on the best way to proceed? + +--[[JasonBlevins]], March 23, 2008 21:41 EDT + + +[[!tag soc]] [[!tag wishlist]]