Reduce authors/titles/links in .bib files
Project description
This is a package for reducing LaTeX .bib files to include just what you want.
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Made by Alex Tait
Installation
$ pip install princeton-bibreduce
Usage
There are three ways to call the same thing
1: UNIX command line executable:
$ princeton-bibreduce -cu myManuscript.aux
2: python command line:
$ python -m bibreduce -cu myManuscript.aux
3: from python code:
import bibreduce bibreduce.main('myManuscript.aux', coauthors=True, urlLinks=True)
Behavior
Generates a .bib file. By default, it adds the _proc suffix to the generated .bib. The customizable fields are:
title (flag -t)
coauthors (flag -c)
doiLinks (flag -d)
urlLinks (flag -u)
abstract (flag -a)
Specifying the flag transfers that field. All fields not on this list are transferred over.
Get more help with:
$ princeton-bibreduce -h
Special behavior for links
If a link format is specified, it populates the field link. For urlLinks, it just copies over what is in the url field. For doiLinks, it puts “http://dx.doi.org/thedoi” in the link field.
Typical TeX workflow
The goal here is to remove titles from references and try to add URLs.
(optional) Centralized bib libraries
Suppose you have a centralized bib library MasterLibrary.bib Bib globals should go in
OSX: ~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib/local/MasterLibrary.bib
Linux: ~/texmf/bibtex/bib/local/MasterLibrary.bib
Windows: C:\Users\<user name>\texmf\bibtex\bib\local\MasterLibrary.bib
The TeX file
Suppose you are then working on a TeX file myManuscript.tex containing:
\begin{document} The text of your paper. ... \bibliography{MasterLibrary} \end{document}
This will pull from your centralized library.
Flow
Compile it with:
$ pdflatex myManuscript.tex $ bibtex myManuscript.aux $ pdflatex myManuscript.tex
Your .aux file includes everything you need to extract a .bib that is specific to this manuscript. This is where you use this module:
$ princeton-bibreduce myManuscript.aux -cu
to generate myManuscript_proc.bib. Now, go back to the .tex file and change the bibliography to the reduced one:
\bibliography{myManuscript_proc}
One more time, call:
$ pdflatex myManuscript.tex $ bibtex myManuscript.aux $ pdflatex myManuscript.tex
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