Comments | susannahf: printing bibtex with abstracts

susannahf

printing bibtex with abstracts

Jun 02, 2009 13:30

As part of the literature review of Doom (of which more will almost certainly be posted at a later point), I found it necessary to print out a large BibTeX file containing abstract fields. Which is easy enough, except that I also wanted to print the abstract fields, and I rather wanted it to look like a bibliography rather than a BibTeX file.
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pozorvlak June 2 2009, 22:19:42 UTC

I'd have been tempted to write a custom bibstyle that included the abstract field. I have no idea how hard that would be - bibtex2html certainly sounds more straightforward.

Another avoiding-Firefox option might have been lynx --dump abstracts.html | lpr -p, assuming you're OK with monospaced fonts.

susannahf June 3 2009, 09:33:24 UTC

yeah, I wanted to write a custom bibstyle, but couldn't find any help at all on doing so. In terms of monospaced, I was trying to avoid wasting trees (and I'm fairly sure the printer isn't set up on duplex from linux atm). Obviously I failed, but I was trying....

pozorvlak June 3 2009, 11:05:41 UTC

I had a brief look last night: I couldn't find much in the way of documentation, but the source code was fairly self-explanatory. I've created a fork of alpha.bst that includes abstracts, and a Perl script to generate the "all references and abstracts" document you were after: I'll tart up the style a bit, and upload it some time today.

pozorvlak June 3 2009, 20:49:04 UTC

You have mail :-)

LRoD silicon_owl June 3 2009, 12:28:01 UTC

As part of the literature review of Doom...

Found a sudden need for 3D graphics in your project? Those ID boys know there business on that front. :-)

As far as the real business is concerned I've never had to deal with a bibliography that big so can't really offer any advice.

Found it anonymous May 21 2010, 15:15:10 UTC

I found the style you were looking for- it's in CTAN:

http://mirror.ibcp.fr/pub/CTAN/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtools/abstract.bst

(I have searched many and many time for it!)

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