[TxMt] latex cite completion problem

Charilaos Skiadas cskiadas at gmail.com
Tue Mar 25 12:36:25 UTC 2008


On Mar 25, 2008, at 7:44 AM, Robin Houston wrote:

>
>>  I don't think it is an easy task at all actually. I could not  
>> find a specification for
>>  the BibTeX syntax when I was looking into it.
>
> That's okay. I prefer difficult tasks to easy ones. :-)
>
> Lack of a formal spec is no problem. The bibtex source code is very
> clear, and as long as we use the same parsing logic as bibtex itself,
> the parser is guaranteed to be 100% compatible.

I like the way you think ;)

Just to warn you, if you accomplish this, then we'll have you write a  
full parser for tex log files. And that's even more of a challenge,  
each package can pretty much write whatever it wants on them ;).

> Robin
>

Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College







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