Software: beastie
Norman Gray
gray at nxg.name
Sun May 19 09:57:08 CEST 2024
Hello, all
[ I'm aware I'm at least somewhat misusing the list by making a software
announcement on it, but I feel uncertain where else to go, in the
absence of something like comp.text.tex; the biblio at tug list seems
moribund ]
I've released 'beastie', which is a .bib processor. It's at
https://nxg.me.uk/dist/beastie/ (version 0.8).
This is an experiment in BibTeX processing, which provides an
alternative mechanism for programming bibliography generation,
implemented in Scheme. As a proof of functionality, it uses that
mechanism to create an implementation of the .bst language. Thus it's
able to act as a (tentative) drop-in replacement for the bibtex program,
adding slightly improved error reporting and debugging support.
The code here works reliably, for me, but I'm uncertain what the next
useful direction would be. I can imagine this would be a good starting
point for a CSL implementation, for example, but have no
current/pressing need for such a thing myself.
Any thoughts or comments would of course be most welcome.
Best wishes,
Norman
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