Software: beastie

[Norman Gray]

Karl, hello.

On 20 May 2024, at 21:35, Karl Berry wrote:

> I don't know that it's relevant, but what came to mind is one of the
> wishlist items that's been in my head for a long time: a bst or other
> file that can do the usual bib processing, but outputs a reasonably
> machine-readable marked-up file like:
>
> \bibentry{somebib}
>   \title{Some title}
>   \author{A.U. Thor}
>   ...
>
> Or maybe better:
>   bibentry = somebib
>   title = Some title
>   author = A.U. Thor
>
> Or YAML. Or whatever. Preferably line-oriented.

That sounds reasonably straightforward, in terms of being a modest adaptation of one of the existing example files.  I'll take a look, and see if I'm being overoptimistic there.  Watch this space.

Best wishes,

Norman


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