README

The BibspaceBibtexToHtml is a wrapper of:

• Text::BibTeX::BibStyle (authored by Mark Nodine CPAN) plus several custom fixes and optimizations
• good old ocaml-based bibtex2html including some very dirty legacy custom fixes (you should not use this!)

Short description

The main aim of BibspaceBibtexToHtml was to replace bibtex2html with something different. something different should produce bbl BibTeX output based on the provided bst files and do not depend on the non-Perl bibtex2html program. Text::BibTeX::BibStyle version 0.03 provided partial solution but the code is abandoned since year 2007.

From the original code of Text::BibTeX::BibStyle, I changed the following:

• allow to pass the contents of a bib entry in a variable instead of a path to file (the old method is also possible),
• allow to pass the path to a bst file instead of specifying a directory and file name,
• changed the function execute for run based either on bib files of the variable input
• several performance fixes (although there is still a lot to do in the performance context)
• disabled cross references (we don't need them and we want more performance)

Limitations

The, so-called, old_method is very dirty and customized. Please don't use it. It is here just to make sure that the output of the new method is the same (or better) than the old one.

The new method fixes the HTML encoding for German and Polish diacritics characters. Supported are the following. German: äüöÄÜÖß, Polish: zażółć gęślą jaźń ZAŻÓŁĆ GĘŚLĄ JAŹŃ.

There is still a lot to do here! Or just use something that properly decodes bibtex and encodes utf8 - I could not find such lib.

How to use it?

Busy PhD students have no time to write docs :P Let the code be the doc, I prepared a demo in file demo.pl.

Sorry, this time, there are no tests. The code is still in early development and should be used with caution. It may be worth to give it a try as there are not many (no at all?) alternatives for Perl that consume .bst files to shape the bibtex output.

Notes

Commenting out the following code in the bst file may hide some BibTeX warnings or errors. The HTML code should be generated correctly, but we give no guarantee.

% FUNCTION {presort}
% { type$ "book" =
%   type$ "inbook" =
%   or
%     'author.editor.sort
%     { type$ "proceedings" =
%         'editor.organization.sort
%         { type$ "manual" =
%             'author.organization.sort
%             'author.sort
%           if$
%         }
%       if$
%     }
%   if$
%   "    "
%   *
%   year field.or.null sortify
%   *
%   "    "
%   *
%   title field.or.null
%   sort.format.title
%   *
%   #1 entry.max$ substring$
%   'sort.key$ :=
% }
% 
% ITERATE {presort}