[racket] [Scribble] bibtex @mastersthesis

From: Joe Gibbs Politz (joe at cs.brown.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 25 14:53:33 EDT 2013

Cool, thanks!


On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm about to push something that adds supports for mastersthesis and adds
> to the documentation a list of what is supported. If you are curious, the
> list and their displayed is defined here:
>
> https://github.com/plt/racket/blob/master/collects/scriblib/bibtex.rkt#L233
>
> BibTex is a very loosely standardized format. There's no place that I've
> found I can go to and get a list of what types are allowed, what fields to
> expect, and how they should be represented. I reckon we'll have to
> incrementally add things to the library as they are discovered in the wild.
>
> Jay
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Joe Gibbs Politz <joe at cs.brown.edu>wrote:
>
>> When I cite a @mastersthesis in bibtex to be cited with scriblib/bibtex,
>> I get the following error:
>>
>> Warning: some cross references may be broken due to undefined tags:
>>  (autobib-date "'#hash((type . \"mastersthesis\") (\"year\" . \"2004\")
>> (\"title\" . \"Starkiller: A Static Type Inferencer and Compiler for
>> Python\") (\"month\" . \"May\") (\"school\" . \"Massachusetts Institute of
>> Technology\") (\"author\" . \"Michael Salib\"))")
>>
>> Bib entry looks like:
>>
>> @mastersthesis{salib:starkiller,
>>   author = "Michael Salib",
>>   title = "Starkiller: A Static Type Inferencer and Compiler for Python",
>>   school = "Massachusetts Institute of Technology",
>>   month = "May",
>>   year = 2004
>> }
>>
>>
>> And it appears in the rendered output as
>>
>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>
>> All the cites I have that are @inproceedings or @misc typeset and link
>> fine.  The @mastersthesis entry works if I just use plain old latex/bibtex
>> with \cite{}.
>>
>> Is there a way for me to define what this should look like myself?  I can
>> maybe hack something that looks OK with @misc, but if there's an easy fix
>> it would be nice to know.  Is there a place in the docs I should have
>> looked to find that this wasn't supported?
>>
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