[racket] Reading bibtex files

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:01 AM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'll get on it. As you know, BibTex is a very poorly described format.
> It can parse my humongous Bibtex file, but I haven't spent a ton of
> tiny searching for problematic ones in the wild.
>

It parses mine too, except mostly for one thing: anything except @...
outside bib entries should be treated as comments.
With that it would be sufficient for me (my file is generated by Mendeley
which always adds some comments at the top).

Thanks!
Laurent



>
> Jay
>
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Danny Yoo <dyoo at hashcollision.org>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Danny Yoo <dyoo at hashcollision.org>
> wrote:
> >> I think there's a bug in the library.  There appears to be a missing
> >> call to (slurp-whitespace ip) in the parsing library.  I'll send a bug
> >> report and a patch to the Racket developers.  A diff follows below for
> >> those who like looking at patch files.  :)
> >
> > Until the library gets patched, here's a possible workaround: put the
> > trailing "}" on the same line, like this:
> >
> > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> > @article{hochreiter_long_1997,
> >    author = {Hochreiter, S. and Schmidhuber, J.},
> >    title = {Long {Short-Term} Memory},
> >    volume = {9},
> >    number = {8},
> >    journal = {Neural Computation},
> >    year = {1997},
> >    pages = {1735--1780}}
> > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> >
> >
> > The bug involves the parser not properly discarding the whitespace
> > right after reading the value "{1735--1780}".
> >
> >
> > I agree with you that the parser needs to be a bit better.  It does
> > not currently follow the description in:
> >
> >
> http://artis.imag.fr/~Xavier.Decoret/resources/xdkbibtex/bibtex_summary.html
> >
> > so it will reject some bibtex files that it shouldn't.
> >
> >
> >
> > I've submitted the bug report as:
> >
> >    http://bugs.racket-lang.org/query/?cmd=view&pr=12779
> >
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