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

I haven't used this library yet (I've just been manually porting my bibtex
files because I somehow missed this option), but if I were to use it, I'd
definitely want to use it to pull in some bibs that I hadn't ported yet and
not give up the ones I've already rewritten (as they are actually much
better than the ones I have in bibtex already).

Robby


On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com>wrote:

> If this is a desired interface, then I should expose the
> 'generate-bib' function, because the whole thing is fairly useless
> without it. Should I do that?
>
> Jay
>
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Robby Findler
> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> > 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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> >>
> >>
> >> --
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> >> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
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> >>
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>
>
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> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
> http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay
>
> "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93
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