[racket] Reading bibtex files

Fantastic, thank you very much!

Laurent

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com>wrote:

> I just pushed a fix for all this. Including all the examples linked.
>
> However, it still doesn't support ()s as the entry delimiter as it should.
>
> Jay
>
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Laurent <laurent.orseau at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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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> >>
> >> --
> >> Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
> >> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
> >> http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay
> >>
> >> "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
> http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay
>
> "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93
>
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