Wednesday 18 July 2012

Bibtex entry creation script used in anger

I've been using my Python script in anger to help convert two chapters
worth of references from plain text references to Bibtex entries.

It's a bit rough and ready and assumes quite a bit about the layout of
the references in the plain-text text, but it did a kind of 90% job
for me.

Maybe it could be helpful for others too, but you shouldn't expect too
much of it.

Of course it could be improved a lot, but at some point, faced by the
law of diminishing returns, I decided to stop improving it when it was
doing 90% OK, and the rest (the difficult cases) I've edited by hand.