[racket] [Scribble] bibdb-bibs empty, bibdb-raw isn't

It seems to me that I'd want to use those other functions so that I can
write new citations with 'make-bib' but still keep old citations around
that I've not yet translated. No?

Robby



On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com>wrote:

> Your bib database is fine. You're just using the library wrong.
>
> The only interface you should use is 'define-bibtex-cite'. The ~cite
> and citet functions that are generated create the 'bib' structure for
> entries in the BibTex database as you use them. They are then cached
> in bibdb-bibs (because autobib requires them to be eq on different
> uses.)
>
> The other functions/structures are just documented in case someone
> wants to process BibTex files for some purpose other than using them
> in Scribble documents.
>
> At the time I wrote this, define-cite had no options. I've updated the
> define-bibtex-cite to support given options to define-cite. This
> should allow you to use the #:style option with define-bibtex-cite.
>
> Jay
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Joe Gibbs Politz <joe at cs.brown.edu>
> wrote:
> > Hi!  I'm trying to use path->bibdb and/or bibtex-parse on a bibtex file,
> and
> > I'm getting a bibdb where bibdb-raw looks good, but bibdb-bibs is an
> empty
> > hash.  I'm not missing some initialization step, am I?  Am I supposed to
> be
> > constructing the bib structs on my own or something?  A little
> confused...
> >
> > (Note: Alternatively, if I could use #:number-style with
> define-bibtex-cite,
> > I'd be all set as well, because *that* seems to parse and generate the
> right
> > bibliography and ~cite works, but doesn't format the citations the way I
> > want.)
> >
> > Code:
> >
> > ======
> > #lang racket/base
> >
> > (require scriblib/autobib scriblib/bibtex)
> >
> > (provide generate-bib ~cite)
> >
> > (define-cite _~cite citet generate-bib #:style number-style)
> >
> > (define db (bibtex-parse (open-input-file "joe.bib")))
> >
> > (define (~cite key)
> >   (_~cite (hash-ref (bibdb-bibs db) key (λ () (error 'cite (format "No
> bib
> > entry: ~a\n" key))))))
> >
> > ======
> >
> >> (bibdb-bibs db)
> > #hash()
> >> (bibdb-raw db)
> > '#hash((... lots of stuff ...))
> >
> >
> > Here's joe.bib (could certainly be ill-formed, I notice some encoding
> issues
> > viewing it in my browser, but I use it with bibtex just fine.  Maybe some
> > sadness in the formatting is causing a bad parse?  But I'd expect an
> error
> > message if that's the case...)
> >
> > http://cs.brown.edu/~joe/public/joe.bib
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
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