BibTeX support¶

Using BibTeX as the type of bibliography database, bibgen will take as bibliography the first file with a .bib extensions it finds in the document directory. You can also specify another bibliography database passing it as argument after the document name:

$ bibgen --bibtex -o citedoc.xml doc.xml /path/to/library.bib

Parser¶

When bibtexparser is not available, bibgen will default to citeproc-py’s parser, which is not able to handle complex BibTeX libraries. For instance, the following field is not correctly recognized:

author = {Escobar, Mar\'{\i}a-Jos\'{e} and […]}

Leading to a stacktrace error about i}a-Jos\' being an undefined macro. Similarly, citeproc-py assumes page numbers to be made entirely of digits, which is not the case in all journal articles, or to have more than one page.