[ANN] rbibtex -- A bibtex parsing library for ruby

[Brian Schröder]

Hello Group,

I'm happy to announce my third mini-project within a few weeks. I
started a bibtex parsing library using racc and ruby.

This is the first library who's publication process I automated using
ara's rubyforge script and I'm very happy with it!

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# rbibtex
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## Description
A bibtex parsing library written in pure ruby.
With some additional executables that transform bibtex files.

This is my first attempt at racc so be patient with me. I hope to improve t=
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into a full bibtex parser in the near future, at the moment it parses the
bibtex subset that I need.

Another problem is that nearly no work went into the added scripts, which c=
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therefore be seen as usage examples, but may not help you with the work you
want to do.

I hope this will be a starting point for a more complete bibtex library for
ruby.

Cheers,

Brian

## Find it at

http://ruby.brian-schroeder.de/rbibtex/

## Installation:

wget http://ruby.brian-schroeder.de/rbibtex/releases/current.tar.bz2
tar -xvvjf current.tar.bz2
cd rbibtex-X.Y.Z
ruby setup.rb

### As a gem

$ su
# gem install rbibtex

## Usage:

rbib2html infiles > outfile

### or as a library:

require "rbibtex"

parser =3D BibTeX:arser.new
file =3D parser.parse( ARGF.read )
file.each do | entry |
p entry
end

## ToDo
* The binaries are only quick hacks for my specific applications right now,
they should be rewritten and extended.
* The full bibtex format is not parsed, I only allow for a specific subset
right now.
* Escaping is not implemented.

## License
This library is under the ruby license

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